Press Release Congressional leaders join animal welfare organizations to celebrate latest transfer and advance efforts to end taxpayer-funded dog experiments BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. — The Center for a Humane Economy announced today that another 135 beagles will be removed this week from Ridglan Farms, the Wisconsin facility that for decades bred dogs for research and … Read more
Bipartisan legislation will expedite transition toward human-relevant testing methods and away from use of dogs, primates, and other animals in drug screening protocols WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s passage of H.R. 2821, the FDA Modernization Act 3.0, to ensure … Read more
The rescue of 1,500 beagles from Ridglan Farms and congressional action on the FDA Modernization Act 3.0 are encouraging signs This week, we are completing the happy task of moving the last of the 1,500 beagles we obtained from Ridglan Farms to rescue and shelter groups, in accordance with our agreement with the Wisconsin-based lab-animal … Read more
Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy applauds bipartisan momentum toward advanced human-relevant testing WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of the ongoing transfer of 1,500 beagles from Ridglan Farms to animal care organizations, Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee for … Read more
The machinery of the animal testing complex is breaking down. Animal testing is unreliable and inferior to 21st-century drug-screening strategies I’ve done a lot of things during a long run in animal advocacy. As a young man, I ran out onto a field to free pigeons about to be shot at the Hegins pigeon shoot. … Read more
This mass movement of dogs is an indicator of larger trend to wind down the use of beagles and other animals in archaic, painful experiments BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. —The Center for a Humane Economy and Big Dog Ranch Rescue today announced an agreement with Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin-based breeder of dogs for laboratory research, to … Read more
We’re on the ground in south-central Wisconsin, poised to lay our hands on 1,500 beagles who were born in a complex owned by Ridglan Farms I’m writing you just minutes before our press conference in Madison, Wis., to announce a whiplash-like turnaround in the fortunes of beagles held since birth at the second-largest beagle breeding … Read more
Incident involving a discarded monkey during quarantine highlights systemic failures, public health risks, and urgent need to modernize research Washington, D.C. — The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action today condemned a second federal citation issued to a Florida-based primate import and quarantine facility, where a monkey was mistakenly discarded into a … Read more
New policy signals major shift toward human-relevant science and away from outdated animal testing WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a sweeping new draft guidance, “General Considerations for the Use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in Drug Development,” marking a pivotal step toward replacing animal testing with more predictive, … Read more
Landmark reforms, federal agency action, and scientific advances are accelerating the move beyond animal testing, even as entrenched industry interests resist change. In a recent letter I sent, I mused that we may be living through a Berlin Wall moment for animal testing. For nearly a century, a broken health research system has relied on … Read more