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IMW Part II: Help the “talkers, cage-rattlers, bar-bangers”
The Rise for Animals Team, May 9, 2024
Please join us to fight for justice for macaques (and all other animals), this important week . . . and every week thereafter.
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IMW Part I: The U.S. is the Macaque-Trade Ringleader
The Rise for Animals Team, May 7, 2024
The “billion-dollar” trade in macaques for human “science” is being driven most heavily by one country: the United States.
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10+ Million Reasons to Take Action this Animal Advocacy Day!
The Rise for Animals Team, April 30, 2024
Please act now to stop an additional 10 million of our taxpayer dollars for primate breeding and experimentation.
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Swallow, Inhale, Apply, Inject: The LD50 Test is Poison
The Rise for Animals Team, March 20, 2024
The LD50 test continues to be used even though scientists themselves admit that the test’s “relation to humans is only a guess”. 
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Researchers Want to Force Cows to Serve as Human Models
The Rise for Animals Team, March 5, 2024
Rather than changing their methods, animal researchers are fixated on changing (or, really, further diversifying) their victims.
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Washington Set to Ban Animal-Tested Cosmetics!
The Rise for Animals Team, March 1, 2024
Heading imminently to the WA governor’s desk is a law that will prohibit statewide the sale and manufacture of cosmetics that have been tested on animals.
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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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All Cunning, No Candor
The Rise for Animals Team, February 15, 2024
The animal research industry doesn’t just oppose reporting its mandated animal counts; it doesn’t even want to count its animals at all.
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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.