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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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Proposed NIH Funding Change Creates Panic Among Vivisectors
The Rise for Animals Team, February 18, 2025
For much of the animal research industry, losing grant money could mean losing the financial incentive to keep the animal torture going.
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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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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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An AI-generated cartoon illustration depicts a monkey hiding in the woods
Media Frames Monkey Recapture as a “Disney Movie” Ending
The Rise for Animals Team, January 28, 2025
Does the media really expect us to believe that monkeys are celebrating their return behind bars?
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Displacement, Not Replacement: Rethinking Vivisection’s End
The Rise for Animals Team, January 24, 2025
To end animal research, we must go beyond vague calls for replacement and address the systemic issues that sustain the animal research pipeline.
Species Spotlight
Species Spotlight: Squirrels
The Rise for Animals Team, January 21, 2025
In a nutshell, squirrels are clever, charismatic, nimble, acrobatic, intelligent, adaptable, and feisty rodents.