The mission of the American Fund for Alternatives to Animal Research (AFAAR) is to promote and assist in the development and use of alternatives to animals in all areas of science and science education and to help provide for the care of animals rescued from it.
Incorporated in New York in 1977, AFAAR provides funding to develop, validate and implement the use of alternatives to animals in research, testing, and education.
AFAAR's goal is to advance scientific methods that are more efficient, efficacious, and predictive of human responses than outdated and cruel animal experiments and testing. Millions of animals suffer in scientific, biomedical, industrial, military, agricultural, cosmetic, and other areas of research, as well as in testing, science education, and training. Advances in science and technology make this suffering not only unnecessary, but attest to how flawed, limited, and oft times dangerous the use of animals for the purported benefit of human health is. The animals rescued, to date, from these cruel and abusive practices are safe in sanctuaries and we are honored to have them as our ambassadors to our mission, each telling a unique and heart wrenching story that AFAAR and other organizations and individuals have turned into a heart warming story of compassion in action.