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Dear Friends,

On January 20, 2002, at 6:18 p.m. an angel got her wings. At the age of eleven I listened with horror as my mother, Joyce, delivered the devastating news that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought with bravery for over six years until she couldn’t do it any longer. She died at the young age of fifty-one. I watched her condition get worse, her hair fall out, the mornings of nausea, the sleepless nights, and the constant pain that just never would go away. She wasn’t the only one suffering during those six years; everyone that loved her suffered as well.

Although I still toss and turn at night trying to come to terms with her passing, even though in my heart I know she lives on, I also lose sleep over the cruel and misleading animal experiments that are being done in her name.

Cancer research scientist Irwin D.J. Bross, Ph.D., former director of biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in New York, attributes the public's lack of knowledge about cancer to misleading animal studies: "Not a single new drug for the treatment of human cancer was first picked up by an animal model system...the results of animal model systems for drugs or other modalities have done nothing but confuse and mislead the cancer researchers who have tried to extrapolate from mice to man. Moreover, when they have been used to guide clinical research they have sent investigators on one long and costly wild goose chase after another. Thus, scientifically speaking, the animal studies are a fraud. Privately, they [vivisectors] will concede that animal models don't work, but they shrug this off because nothing works."

As someone who has witnessed both human and non-human animals suffering and dying from cancer, I am outraged that precious resources and time are being wasted on useless animal experiments. Please help save the lives of all beings by donating only to humane charities that don’t fund animal tests. For a list of humane health charities, that work to save humans without hurting animals, visit www.HumaneSeal.org.

The animals deserve nothing less than to have a voice. We are, and must be, their voice!

For the Animals,

Nathan Runkle
MFA Director

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