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
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
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
Our work, in tandem with congressional and federal agency actions, may usher in a new era of health and well-being for people and for animals As the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported in late December, Congress included a provision in a larger bill related to the military to end “exercises that involved shooting, … Read more
Critical vote strengthens momentum for human-relevant science and overdue regulatory reform Last night, the U.S. Senate passed the FDA Modernization Act 3.0, S. 355, signaling to the Food and Drug Administration that it must wind down the era of animal testing in drug development and boldly enter the era of screening drugs by methods grounded in human … Read more
Leading animal welfare groups ask lawmakers to restore original design of the legislation and to help dogs get out of labs after they’ve been used in tests MADISON, Wis. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, Dane4Dogs, and allied organizations are calling on members of the Wisconsin Legislature to reject or remove the harmful Senate Amendment … Read more
Ridglan Farms’ abuses highlight yet one more example that beagle procurement leads to inhumane treatment, poor testing results Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Rise for Animals, and other advocacy groups are urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. … Read more
The action is one more reverberation from the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 There’s some major movement on the front end of the trade in dogs for use in laboratories. Ridglan Farms, the nation’s second-largest supplier of beagles for laboratory experiments, has agreed to surrender its license to breed and sell dogs for experimentation. This comes … Read more
BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), The Beagle Freedom Project, and Rise for Animals today cautiously celebrated the announcement, in the form of a settlement agreement, that Ridglan Farms will relinquish its license to breed and sell beagles for experimentation. … Read more
At a time when FDA and NIH are seeking to phase out testing on beagles and other animals, the Ridglan Farm operation is archaic, supplying beagles to laboratories BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. – Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today commended the Wisconsin State Veterinary Examining Board for unanimously voting to suspend the … Read more