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The Animal Welfare Act Protects Just 5% of Animals in Labs
The Rise for Animals Team, December 5, 2022
The Animal Welfare Act is supposed to provide protections for animals in laboratories. So why are 95% of animals in labs exempt?
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Even Farmed Animals Are Used and Abused in Research
The Rise for Animals Team, November 30, 2022
Farmed animals are brutally exploited by the animal research industry. Many of these animals are offered zero protections under the law.
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#GivingTuesday 2022: In Honor of Helen
The Rise for Animals Team, November 28, 2022
On this day of global generosity, help us shift science away from harmful, ineffective experiments on animals and toward better, human-relevant methods instead.
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Monkey Poachers Are Fueling the Animal Research Industry
The Rise for Animals Team, November 17, 2022
The international primate trade exploits monkeys who are snatched from their rightful homes, sold on the black market, and shipped to the U.S. for experiments.
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Take Action for Helen: Part 6—Sentience
The Rise for Animals Team, November 16, 2022
Humans and animals are both alike and different, rendering our experimentation on non-humans wrong both practically and ethically.
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Take Action for Helen: Part 5—Resistance
The Rise for Animals Team, November 9, 2022
Laboratory records are filled with determined, purposeful, and despairing acts by non-humans in resistance of their cruel fate.
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No, We Shouldn’t Subject Convicted Criminals to Experiments
The Rise for Animals Team, November 3, 2022
Here are three reasons why testing on convicted criminals, prisoners, and other unwilling human participants will never be the answer to ending animal experimentation.
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Take Action for Helen: Part 4—The Primate Trade
The Rise for Animals Team, November 2, 2022
Animal experimentation harms all animals, including the 4% of all mammals on Earth who remain wild.
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Take Action for Helen: Part 3—Sacrificed for Nothing
The Rise for Animals Team, October 25, 2022
Non-human animal “models” have failed to translate findings to humans since the very beginning of animal experimentation.