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"Bottomless" Issues: Whistleblower’s Account of OHSU’s Labs
Guest Author: A Former OHSU Husbandry Staff Member, March 6, 2025
A former Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) husbandry staff member exposes their experiences in the school's animal research facilities.
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Baby Monkeys “Pointlessly” Tortured With Your Tax Dollars
Rise for Animals, March 5, 2025
Despite acknowledging that his research lacks scientific value, an NIH-funded researcher continued to receive tax dollars to conduct his cruel, unnecessary experiments.
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Look Into Their Eyes – And Dare to Look Away
Rise for Animals, February 27, 2025
Meet four unnamed porcine victims who remind us that violence and suffering is part and parcel of everything that happens to animals inside animal research facilities.
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Animal Researchers Strangle and Sexually Violate Animals
Rise for Animals, February 24, 2025
Governments around the globe pay animal researchers to study intimate partner violence by recreating “violent, criminal acts” on animals in their labs.
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Dealing in Suffering: The Torture & Trade of Primates’ Kin
The Rise for Animals Team, February 6, 2025
Public records reveal that University of Alabama-Birmingham (“UAB”) researchers are destroying the eyes of tree shrews and leaving them to suffer in filthy cages.
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Whistles Blown 4: Animal Researchers Don’t Do What They Say
The Rise for Animals Team, January 29, 2025
Here are newly-documented examples of what happens to animals in labs, as reported by insiders.
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Whistles Blown 3: Animal Researchers Don’t Do What They Say
The Rise for Animals Team, January 16, 2025
Brave employees continue coming forward to report what’s really happening inside U.S. animal research facilities. Read what's happening, in their own words, here.
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Animal Researchers “Smoke” Animals for Profit
The Rise for Animals Team, January 9, 2025
UAB researchers force ferrets to “smoke” cigarettes by blasting cigarette smoke up their noses and into their lungs as often as twice a day for months on end. 
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A Cat Experiment Exposed & Why We Tell Such Terrible Truths
The Rise for Animals Team, December 19, 2024
It’s a haunting truth, hidden behind sterile laboratory doors and bureaucratic jargon. But here at Rise for Animals, we believe these stories need to be exposed.