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To the FDA, Sunscreen Is a Drug That Requires Animal Testing
The Rise for Animals Team, February 28, 2024
The FDA is requiring companies to conduct new animal tests on several sunscreen ingredients that have been used safely by humans for decades.
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Animal Cruelty Is Legal (In a Laboratory)
The Rise for Animals Team, February 22, 2024
If Bella the dog’s bones had been broken in a lab, the abuse she endured would have been called “science”.
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The Harder You Hit a Baby Pig, the More You Hurt Them
The Rise for Animals Team, February 14, 2024
Researchers learned nothing human-relevant from the torture and killing of the 16 piglets, but that was never the goal anyway.
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Is AI Anti-Animal?
The Rise for Animals Team, February 9, 2024
Unaddressed, speciesism remains “very widespread across most AI systems” and is poised to harm the animal rights movement.
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Different Face, Same Evil: The U.S. Medical Device Industry
The Rise for Animals Team, February 7, 2024
Both the drug and medical device industries are part and parcel of the animal research industry.
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The Malignancy in Cancer Research
The Rise for Animals Team, February 2, 2024
Human disease models have achieved major advances in the fight against cancer, but they're vastly underfunded and underutilized in this animal-research-dominated space.
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Utah Residents Must Act to Defend Animals and Democracy
The Rise for Animals Team, February 1, 2024
The Utah legislature is currently considering a bill that would prevent the state government from granting legal personhood to animals.
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Treading Water: The Perverse Irony of the "Forced Swim Test"
The Rise for Animals Team, January 24, 2024
Researchers continue to perform the forced swim test despite both heavy scientific criticism and the lack of evidence of its scientific validity.
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OUR Fight for OUR Rights
The Rise for Animals Team, January 19, 2024
Just as we are all connected, the use of some living beings by others inside laboratories is connected to all other forms of institutionalized oppression.