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Supporters and members are instrumental in the Physicians Committee’s successful efforts to promote the health benefits of a plant-based diet and replace animal use in research, testing, and education.
Learn how you can help by donating or taking action to end animal use and improve nutrition, volunteering, and more.
Medical Education and Training
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
Currently, 99% of surveyed ATLS programs in the United States and Canada use only human-relevant training methods. Urge this program to end animal use by making the switch to simulation:
North Dakota State University/Sanford Health
Emergency Medicine
Today, 97% of surveyed emergency medicine residency programs in the United States and Canada use only human-relevant training methods. Urge these programs to end animal use by making the switch to simulation:
Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
University of Missouri Columbia
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
Surgery
The Physicians Committee began collecting data about the methods used to train surgery residents in December 2018. Currently, nearly 80% of surveyed general surgery residency programs in the United States and Canada use only human-relevant training methods. Urge these programs to end animal use by making the switch to simulation:
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Oregon Health and Science University
Medical Experiments
Support the Federal Animal Research Accountability Act—HR 3295
Taxpayers have no idea how many animals are used in experiments funded by the U.S. government. But a new federal bill would change that!
Support the CARGO Act
U.S. taxpayers are funding animal experiments overseas, with extremely limited oversight for how these animals are treated or how this money is spent. Ask your U.S. representative to support the CARGO Act to stop the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding these foreign animal experiments!
Tell FWS: Send Monkeys to Sanctuary
Please urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to send these monkeys to an appropriate sanctuary and adopt a policy that all illegally imported nonhuman primates be sent immediately to sanctuary, removing any chance that they be used in experiments.
Tell Elon Musk and Neuralink to Stop Harming Animals!
In August 2020, entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed that his Neuralink employees have implanted computer chips in pigs' brains. This San Francisco-based company has a long history of using animals—including monkeys, mice, and sheep—to conduct experiments that are supposedly aimed at allowing the brain to communicate directly with computers and machines. Please send an email to Musk and the other leaders of Neuralink and urge them to stop using animals and instead focus on human-relevant research methods!
Wayne State University: Stop Heart Failure Experiments on Dogs
After more than 25 years, the experiments on dogs at Wayne State University have contributed nothing to treatments for patients suffering from heart failure or hypertension.
Good Nutrition Policy
USA: Stopping the Reintroduction of Whole Milk in Schools
The so-called “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act,” would require schools across the county to provide full-fat whole dairy milk to students. At a time when more and more parents, students, and teachers are expressing the need for plant-based options at schools, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act would continue to place unfair barriers on children and families.
USA: Upholding the Scientific Integrity of the DGA Process
Plant-based diets are under attack! We need your help to stop efforts to undermine the recommendations for plant-based proteins in the most recent Scientific Report authored by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
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