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Beckon a Better Day for Bunnies
The Rise for Animals Team, September 30, 2023
Rabbits have been sought-after victims of animal testing since at least the early 1940s. 
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A person dressed in a mask, gloves, and surgical apron holds a baby macaque monkey while standing in front of steel cages
Urge Congress to Defund Nonhuman Primate Research
The Rise for Animals Team, September 22, 2023
Take action to prevent the addition of $30 million in funding for cruel primate experimentation.
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Let’s Show We CARE About Animals in Labs
The Rise for Animals Team, August 31, 2023
The Better CARE for Animals Act of 2023 has the potential to impact animals trapped in laboratories.
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The CARGO Act: Defund Foreign Animal Laboratories Now
The Rise for Animals Team, August 28, 2023
The CARGO Act is positioned to reduce harm to animals, save animals’ lives, support more ethical science, and save American tax dollars.
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Grassroots Spotlight: The Northwest Animal Rights Network
The Rise for Animals Team, August 10, 2023
NARN is a Washington State-based animal protection group championing “the rights of all sentient beings."
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Phone Booths & Shoeboxes: The “Breaking” of Animals in Labs
The Rise for Animals Team, August 3, 2023
Not only do laboratory cages wreak havoc on their occupants’ physical well-being, they also devastate their mental states.
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You and I Are Among the Largest Funders of Animal Research
The Rise for Animals Team, July 22, 2023
The NIH is the largest federal funder of animal research . . . yet there’s a huge amount we don’t know about how the NIH is spending our money.  
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Lives Stolen for a Lucrative Business
The Rise for Animals Team, July 18, 2023
NatGeo reports that the “business in long-tailed macaques is a lucrative one”, with shipments of stolen, commodified lives valued at more than $1 billion.
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Protecting Primates: The Fight is On
The Rise for Animals Team, June 28, 2023
NABR doesn’t want macaques protected in any way because this would make their enslavement and torture in research laboratories, they say, “more difficult”.