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19 Jul 2008
We all want to find cures for disease, but that doesn’t mean we want to support animal experiments. As well as being unethical, animal research can also be misleading and not directly relevant to human health. Supporting charities that fund life-saving research but without animal suffering, helps both people and animals.
When companies support animal-testing health charities with high-profile promotions or customer campaigns, they rarely if ever reveal that their money may go towards animal experiments. We think that’s wrong – customers are entitled to know the truth so that they can avoid unintentionally donating to animal testing. Even better, companies could avoid animal suffering altogether and choose a cruelty-free health charity to support instead. Our Think Before You Give pledge asks companies to do just that, and you can help.
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The Pledge
Think Before You Give asks companies to take a pledge:
√ I pledge to introduce a non-animal research policy for all future charity promotions
OR
√ I pledge that a percentage of future charity promotions will always be non-animal research, and whenever we support an animal-testing charity, we’ll tell our customers and give them an alternative non-animal research charity to support instead.
Here’s how you can help:
Step 1
If you spot an animal-testing health charity being promoted by a supermarket, newspaper or other company, check it out to make sure it really is an animal tester. Click the guinea pig for a quick guide to charities.
Step 2
Click here and let the Dr Hadwen Trust know about the promotion – we’ll ask them to take the Think Before You Give pledge.
Step 3
Write to the company yourself and encourage others to do so. It is important that the company hears from members of the public who do not wish to support animal suffering. Keep your calls / letters / emails brief and polite, and encourage them to contact us here at the Dr Hadwen Trust to discuss an alternative approach that supports medical research but without animal experiments.