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We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Include Birds, Rats, and Mice in the Animal Welfare Act!

Target: Nancy Pelosi, Senator, U.S. Senate
Sponsor: Phoebe Salmons
  • Signatures: 697
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: 11-8-2007

This is to go out to the U.S. Representative for California, Nancy Pelosi (D), in hopes that it will urge her to do something about the bill in which rats, birds, and mice (%95 of the animals subject to testing and vivisection) are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act.


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696 5:46 am PDT, Jun 4 Ms. Annelies Ooms
695 12:29 pm PDT, May 14   Diana Animalspirit  
694 11:11 pm PDT, Apr 4   Diana Adkins  
693 8:17 pm PDT, Mar 26 Ms. Natalie Santiago  
692 10:06 pm PDT, Mar 19 Ms. Sharon Hull  
691 6:31 pm PDT, Mar 18   Valeriya Sholokhova  
690 4:31 pm PDT, Mar 18 Ms. Ashley Renee Kuntz
689 3:13 am PDT, Mar 17 Mrs. vivien de Boer-Harm  
688 8:07 am PDT, Mar 9 Ms. Samantha Hageman  
686 10:03 am PST, Feb 19 Ms. Julia Tawyea  
685 10:26 pm PST, Feb 16   Jeremy M  
684 8:41 am PST, Feb 15   Elisa Minakis  
683 7:07 am PST, Feb 15   RIVER FRANCE
682 2:42 pm PST, Feb 10 Ms. Laurel Watson  
681 8:46 am PST, Jan 29   Annica Klein  
680 7:49 pm PST, Jan 19   Sandra Stubbs  
679 11:35 am PST, Jan 12 Mr. Glen Venezio  
678 7:57 am PST, Jan 6   Gabriela Mieczkowska  
677 4:36 am PST, Jan 1 Mrs. Christine Conti-Cole  
676 10:54 am PST, Dec 31 Ms. Victoria Mary Stong / Animal Rights Activist
675 9:57 am PST, Dec 31 Ms. Natalia Villalobos Mora
674 10:17 pm PST, Dec 29   Jessica Eldridge
673 1:50 pm PST, Dec 29   rachel enkey  
672 12:08 pm PST, Dec 19 Ms. Ginger Geronimo  
671 7:41 pm PST, Dec 13   Katherine Lopez
670 4:06 am PST, Dec 13   Alessandro Barracciu  
669 7:40 pm PST, Dec 3   Kristen Calandra  
668 6:15 pm PST, Nov 26   mary sim
666 3:04 am PST, Nov 21   Laura Tatti  
665 5:14 pm PST, Nov 14 Mrs. Stacey Mulderig  
664 12:23 pm PST, Nov 12   M. B.  
662 11:22 am PST, Nov 7   anne romanow  
661 2:38 pm PST, Nov 5   courtney boeck  
660 2:12 pm PST, Nov 4   Anonymous
659 6:16 am PDT, Nov 3   Anonymous  
658 5:00 pm PDT, Oct 29   josette Roux  
657 4:59 pm PDT, Oct 29   Jean-Marie Trincali  
656 5:03 am PDT, Oct 28 Ms. Anne Seidel
655 1:03 pm PDT, Oct 23   eric duprat  
654 1:02 pm PDT, Oct 23   Annie Bertrand  
653 1:01 pm PDT, Oct 23   jean-damien Susini  
652 12:37 pm PDT, Oct 23   germain puerta  
651 6:24 pm PDT, Oct 17   Aleasha Casaretto  

Include Birds, Rats, and Mice in the Animal Welfare Act!

Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is widely considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right.".

Sen. Jesse Helms has succeeded in denying protection to animals in laboratories. He added an amendment to the Farm Bill (H.R. 2646) to permanently exclude rats, mice, and birds from the protection of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which means that the research industry is able to continue to subject them to appalling procedures and conditions that would be illegal for any other warm-blooded animals.

Let's please urge senators from every state to include rats, mice, and birds in the Animal Welfare Act! Sen. Jesse Helms excluded %95 of the animals used for vivisection and animal testing from the protection of the AWA, and I say it is time to put a stop to that! Please, sign this petition and help the lives of rats, mice, and birds.

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