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Take Action: Give Legal Protections to Cold-Blooded Animals
Rise for Animals, June 5, 2025
The Cold-blooded Animal Research and Exhibition (CARE) Act (H.R. 2976) aims to amend the AWA’s definition of “animal” to include cold-blooded species.
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Discrimination *Is* the Cage — Help Us Break It Down
Rise for Animals, June 5, 2025
Our work to free animals from labs is one part of a broader fight — a fight against institutionalized discrimination. A fight against oppression. A fight for justice.
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Tell Congress: Stop Funding Cruel Animal Experiments Abroad
Rise for Animals, June 2, 2025
The Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act of 2025 seeks to prohibit the NIH from awarding funding and support to animal experiments in other countries.
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6 Ways to Help Animals in Labs on National Animal Rights Day
Rise for Animals, May 30, 2025
Choose one action (or all six!) to make a meaningful difference for animals. Every step you take helps build a future without animal experimentation.
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AMP to NIH: “Keep Torturing Animals, But Call it Progress”
Rise for Animals, May 27, 2025
Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) is a pro-vivisection trade group that protects profits — even if it means sacrificing truth, science, and animals.
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We’re Back in Court Against the Animal Research Industry
Rise for Animals, May 13, 2025
The USDA handed over animal welfare enforcement to the industry it’s meant to regulate — we’re taking them to court to stop it.
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Sunscreen Controversy May Reveal If FDA Roadmap Is Real
Rise for Animals, May 8, 2025
Is the FDA serious about ending animal testing—or just saying what the public wants to hear? A quiet sunscreen controversy could reveal the truth.
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World’s Largest Animal Research Funder Gives Us an Opening!
Rise for Animals, April 30, 2025
The NIH just cracked open the door to a future without animal experiments — now we must push it wide open.
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University Researchers = Architects of Animal Ag’s Violence
Rise for Animals, April 30, 2025
The same institutions that test on animals are also engineering their mass exploitation for human consumption. This is the story they don’t want you to know.