The animal rights group suing the University of Missouri over an estimated $82,000 charge for researching and copying public records won a victory Friday when Circuit Judge Jeff Harris ruled the case would go to trial. Harris rejected the university’s request that he enter a judgment in its favor and end the lawsuit by Animal Rescue Media Education, which also operates under the name the Beagle Freedom Project. The organization sued the university in 2016, charging that it had set the cost so high for its records that it effectively…
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Cali
Cali’s story is the ultimate story of survival. She was scared and alone on the streets of China; lost and with no one to protect her. She likely spent her time running from people and scavenging for her next meal. One day, she was caught by some people intent on making her into dinner. read more
An Advocate for Saving Laboratory Animals and Helping People Live a Cruelty-Free Life
A native of Studio City, California, Shannon Keith was raised as an only child where animals were always her best friends. “I grew up with all kinds of rescue animals – dogs and cats, and animal we’d rescue from the street, including injured birds and such. My mother was very encouraging of that. So it was a very nurturing atmosphere that cared for animals.” By the time she got to college she decided to become an animal rights attorney. “When I first heard that animals were considered chattel, meaning a…
Adorable Cats Rescued From Life in Labs Need Your Help!
Right now, more than 20,000 cats and 65,000 dogs across the U.S. are currently caged up in labs, where they are used as test subjects for our cosmetics, prescription drugs, and other products. Forced to undergo experiments that subject them to unimaginable pain and often result in lasting health consequences, these poor animals are treated like objects rather than living creatures. No different from the felines and canines we bring into our homes as pets, these innocent victims of laboratory experimentation crave love and affection, but they don’t get anything…
Massachusetts Senate passes bill to promote adoption of research animals
The Massachusetts Senate has adopted a bill that will allow families to adopt research animals once labs have concluded their testing. An Act Protecting Research Animals, also known as the “Beagle Bill,” requires product testing facilities to spare dogs and cats from automatic euthanasia and offer them for adoption through animal rescue organizations. “This common-sense legislation protects research animals and ensures that they will receive the dignified care and companionship they deserve, rather than face an early death,” Senate President Karen Spilka said in a statement. “As a lifelong animal…
USDA Faces Challenge Over Secret Records of Animal Suffering
PETA-Led Coalition Demands That Agency Release Full Annual Reports From Laboratories That Subject Animals to Unmitigated Pain For Immediate Release: July 16, 2018 Contact: Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382 Washington – This morning, a PETA-led coalition sent a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) demanding that the agency disclose the full annual reports submitted by laboratories—including their justifications for denying animals relief from pain and distress. After the coalition filed a lawsuit challenging the USDA’s removal of thousands of federal Animal Welfare Act–related records from its website, the agency partially…
Abandoned, Paralyzed Dog Found in China Looking for New Home in the U.S.
Bennie is a fighter! The adorable black Lab was abandoned on the streets of China. Worse yet, the 6-month-old canine’s rear legs were paralyzed. Thankfully, where there are lows there are also highs: Bennie was saved by rescuers and is currently being cared for. In hopes of getting the friendly pooch walking on his own again, rescuers set up surgery for Bennie. It has been several months since his operation, and the Lab still can’t walk unassisted. But the Beagle Freedom Project still has a lot of hope and help…
A Rescue of Luck and Determination
Meet the lucky survivors of “Robbie’s Rescue,” named after an angel up above watching over these eight lucky survivors from China. Daisy, Jenny, Abby, Alice, Betty, Eileen, Rita and Ella all animal testing survivors that were rescued from a truck heading to slaughter. LET THAT SINK IN. They were experimented on then going to be slaughtered for meat. That is more pain and suffering than any life should ever endure. They came to us with missing and rotting teeth, canines growing inwards causing severe pain, heart issues, curious implants in…
Freedom For All
On the very same day the Beagle Freedom Bill was signed by Delaware Governor John Carney, the Rhode Island State Senate voted in the same life-saving bill, which now heads to Governor Gina Raimondo’s desk for signature! Delaware is now the eighth and Rhode Island is soon to be the ninth state to pass this historic legislation that mandates the release of healthy adoptable dogs and cats from research when they would otherwise be killed. Our supporters like you helped make it happen as did our beagle survivors who are…
Dogs Find Forever Homes In US After Escaping Meat Trade In China
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Five dogs rescued from the Chinese food market arrived in Los Angeles Saturday to find forever homes. The group — Rescue And Freedom Project — says ten dogs in all were rescued. Some of the dogs have also been used for experiments in labs, the group says. Eight were rescued from the food truck, the other two suffered chemical burns and paralysis. The five dogs that arrived Saturday include three beagles, a Labrador and a husky. The remaining dogs will arrive in the US on July…
Gov. Carney signs bill that gives ex-lab animals a second chance at life
DOVER, Del. (WTXF) – A Delaware law aimed at giving new life to former lab animals is officially in the books. On Wednesday, Gov. John Carney signed Senate Bill 101, The Research Animal Retirement Act, into law. Under the new legislation, commonly referred to as the ‘Beagle Freedom Bill,’ research facilities that receive public funding will be required to offer their cats and dogs for adoption instead of euthanizing them when they are no longer needed. Students and staff of the institution in question would have the option of adopting…
Bills That Will Enable Former Lab Animals to Be Adopted Into Forever Homes Pass in 2 States!
The Beagle Freedom Bill, a game-changing measure which allows former lab dogs and cats to be adopted into homes, has just passed in the eighth and ninth state to sign it into law. The Research Animal Retirement Act was passed in Delaware and Rhode Island, and it will change the lives of countless animals as it legally obliges laboratories to release dogs and cats no longer used for testing to rescue organizations that will provide the animals with normal lives and loving homes. In Delaware, The Research Animal Retirement Act,…