About Lifeforce

We Need Your Help!

Since its inception in 1980, Lifeforce has achieved many victories for both animals and people. But victories cost money. Without caring people, we cannot continue our vital work.

Your membership and donations will help us to:

Investigate and expose abusive research practices.
Distribute educational materials and videotape documentation of human, animal and environment abuses.
Establish a speakers' bureau and data bases to disseminate knowledge of the issues.
Contribute to the revision and implementation of protection laws and regulations.
Publicize the need for a food system that is healthy for both people and animals.
Raise public awareness of the necessity for a safer, more humane health care and research system.
Help protect the environment from exploitive businesses such as the aquarium and zoo industry.
Our Work, Our Goals:

The Lifeforce Foundation is a non-profit ecology organization dedicated to raising public awareness of the interrelationship of human, animal and environmental problems. Lifeforce urges society to address and solve problems by taking into consideration the long term effects on all parts of the ecosystem.

Health Rights:

As part of Lifeforce's work, we have developed a new concept called Health Rights. This concept reinforces the basic principle that all sentient beings -- human and non-human -- are entitled to a healthy life.

Unethical, unnecessary scientific experiments using "animal models" (taking healthy animals and inflicting on them human diseases and injuries) are a violation of Health Rights. We support the study of naturally-occurring maladies through research that is conducted humanely and is scientifically justifiable.

The Three Es:

Lifeforce focuses upon three major areas in which humans, animal and environmental rights are violated:

Eating: The factory farm system keeps billions of animals in deplorable living conditions and feed them massive doses of antibiotics, growth hormones and animal wastes. Animals are abused, people become ill or even die and the environment is degraded.

Experimenting: Immoral and scientifically fallacious experiments waste lives and scare health-care funds. The use of "animal models" actually retards scientific progress because the actual human malady is not being studied and animals react differently from humans to various treatments. As a result, both people and animals are harmed by these wasteful experiments.

Further, hazardous waste from animal experiments adds to the increasing environmental crisis of medical waste disposal. The land and ocean ecosystem are poisoned.

Click Here for more "Types of Animal Experiments".

Entertaining: Exploitive and violent forms of amusement, such as dogfights, rodeos, pornography and "snuff" movies prevent the development of a compassionate society. For the sake of commercial interests alone, zoos and aquariums deplete wildlife populations and destroy natural environments. People, animals and the environment are both psychologically and psychically abused by these violent forms of entertainment.