Pamela Anderson Pens Letter Supporting Great Ape Protection Act
Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 in Actresses, Animal Issues.
Pamela Anderson may have been eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, but she has still managed to dance her way into Washington to tangle with lawmakers over using chimpanzees in medical research.
The actress supports the Great Ape Protection Act, H.R. 1326, that would ban experiments on the animals, and she’s written to Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Frank Pallone, who chairs a health subcommittee, asking for their hands in ending the testing.
Anderson points out that although she is a sufferer of a chronic disease, Hepatitis C, she still feels research on human subjects and other non animal tests would go further in treating and curing such ailments.
“As one of the more than 3 million Americans living with hepatitis C, I am writing to ask that you take steps to end ineffective and cruel research using chimpanzees and direct federal funds to modern, human-based research methods that will be more effective at finding a vaccine and treatment for hepatitis C and other deadly diseases,” writes Anderson. “I implore that you encourage the National Institutes of Health and other agencies to invest in more effective and efficient human cell based technologies that are more likely to yield successful results.”
Actress Emily Deschanel has written a similar letter supporting the bill.
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