Welcome!
To track our progress on the trail visit our website:
http://www.veganthruhikers.com
As you may know Megan and I are thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, about 2,175 miles starting about March 1st 2007. We will be starting in Georgia and hiking North to Maine. With this hike we also wanted to use it to raise awareness and money for one of our favorite organizations, NEAVS. Currently they are running a project called Release & Restitution, which aims to end the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and testing and to help provide them rescue and restitution in permanent sanctuary.
Here are just a few facts. For more information on R & R please visit their website after your make a donation.
- Some 1,300 chimpanzees are confined in U.S. laboratories. Some were wild-caught as babies in Africa, others were born in a lab or sent from zoos, circuses, and animal trainers. Some were taught to communicate using sign language or raised in family settings - only to be sent into biomedical experimentation when funding ran out, or they became too strong to manage.
- Chimpanzee research has been shown time and again to be unnecessary and even dangerous to human medical advances. The scientific community itself is in debate about the efficacy of chimpanzee research to study human health and disease. Although chimpanzees have 96% of the same DNA as us, we now know that they - like all other species experimented on - differ significantly from humans. These differences can result in crucial disparities in the way viruses progress in chimpanzees and humans, and in how we respond to drugs and treatments.
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The New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), the founder of Project R&R, is a 501©3 organization. Your donations are fully tax-deductible as allowable by law.
Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fund-raising efforts.
Many thanks for your support -- and don't forget to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!