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TAKE ACTION: Help End Animal Testing for Cosmetics in China
Nathan Herschler, February 22, 2019
You can help end animal testing for cosmetics in China. China, the world largest market for cosmetics, still requires beauty products to be tested on animals.
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President Signs Bill Telling USDA to Stop Killing Kittens
Mike Ryan, February 14, 2019
Remember how we told you that the USDA was killing healthy kittens in Beltsville, Maryland, just because they didn’t need the kittens after getting a simple stool sample?
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Purina, Hill's Conducting Unethical Tests on Dogs/Cats
Mike Ryan, February 13, 2019
Most Americans oppose medical experiments on trapped animals. It’s no surprise that this is particularly true for traditional companion animals like dogs and cats.
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Dear Medical Journals, Stop Giving Press to Primate Experime
Mike Ryan, February 8, 2019
The results of experiments that cause tremendous and unrelieved pain to primates are still being published.
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Response to Former Yerkes Chimpanzee Giving Birth at Wingham
The Rise for Animals Team, January 24, 2019
Wingham had repeatedly stated it had no intention of permitting these chimps to reproduce. Now another chimpanzee faces a lifetime of captivity behind bars.
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Discover the Best Tool you have for Exposing Cruel Experimen
Mike Ryan, January 23, 2019
The majority of Americans oppose lethal medical experiments on captive animals. That’s why perpetrators of the cruelest experiments go to great lengths to hide.
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Five Places Where Experiments on Cats are Increasing
Leila Arefi-Pour, January 23, 2019
5 U.S.-based facilities have the dishonorable distinction of having most sharply increased the population (or percentage) of cats being cruelly used as test tubes.
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Great Trends: Five Places Reducing Cat Experiments
Leila Arefi-Pour, January 23, 2019
Here’s a look at five places in the U.S. where the number of cats being held for or used in cruel experiments is fast reducing.
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SPECIES DIFFERENCES: The Elephant in the Room
The Rise for Animals Team, January 11, 2019
It’s time to question the scientific merit of using animals to cure human diseases.