You could be an empath!
You may not be the biggest empath yet but good news: empathy is like a muscle—it grows stronger with use! Proven ways to build empathy for others include focusing on our similarities, putting aside our differences, being curious, and imagining how we would feel if we had to endure the same conditions and experiences as others.
🐒 Consider the monkey who, in a crude experiment, starved himself for nearly two weeks when the only way to get food was to shock a fellow monkey.
🐥 Or the 6-year-old boy in India who rushed an injured chick to a hospital with only a coin in his pocket, begging staff to help the bird.
We’ve created a free, downloadable empathy kit that offers a step-by-step guide for understanding others’ perspectives and experiences.
Download an “Every Animal Is Someone” Empathy Kit:
It’s vital to understand what millions of animals endure in laboratories every year across the country.
👎 99% of the animals in labs aren’t protected by federal law.
👎 95% of new drugs that are effective and safe in animal tests fail in human trials.
👎 Every year, the National Institutes of Health blows nearly half of its research budget on animal experimentation, $23.1 billion in 2023, to be exact.
⬇️ If you are a U.S. resident, please take the action below as well. ⬇️
Take a few seconds to turn empathy into action and urge your legislators to back PETA’s Research Modernization Deal—the strategy that will replace animal experiments with modern, human-relevant research methods.
