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Big News: FDA to Phase Out Some Animal Testing
Rise for Animals, April 10, 2025
The FDA announced plans to immediately begin phasing out its longstanding requirement for animal testing in the development of some drugs.
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Animals Need Liberation, Not Resurrection
Rise for Animals, April 9, 2025
Bringing back extinct animals like the dire wolf won’t undo what captivity destroys.
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Researchers Make Mice Itch, Count the Scratches. Literally.
Rise for Animals, March 27, 2025
The “finding” from this obscene ordeal? That the mice experienced severe and unusual pain responses to the severe pain inflicted by animal researchers.
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Finally Free! Alamogordo Chimps Find Sanctuary at Last
Rise for Animals, March 21, 2025
The first group of ten chimpanzees arrived at Chimp Haven in February, where they were greeted with the open arms of loving, expert caregivers.
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Bill Poised to “Decimate” the Animal Research Industry
Rise for Animals, March 20, 2025
Tell Congress to pass the SPARE Act and stop forcing taxpayers to bankroll bad science that harms and kills animals.
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Stop Congress from Funding EVEN MORE Primate Research!
The Rise for Animals Tesm, February 19, 2025
The NIH is bent on investing more and more of our money in animal research. Congress still has time to reject this funding, but lawmakers need to hear from YOU.
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Let’s Help Rep. Mace Hold Animal Researchers Accountable!
The Rise for Animals Team, February 12, 2025
By forcing transparency into the research industry’s exploitation of animals, we would both expose the industry’s true scale and take a giant step toward ending it.
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House Considers “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies”
The Rise for Animals Team, February 11, 2025
On February 6, 2025, a House subcommittee hosted a hearing on “wasteful and cruel research conducted on animals and paid for by taxpayers".
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Feds Must Follow Science, Not Industry, and Protect Macaques
The Rise for Animals Team, February 5, 2025
Act now! Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques by adding them to the Endangered Species List.