Investigations Reveal Illegal Neglect and Abuse of Animals

Exciting technological progress has been made to replace animals in testing along with a groundswell of support among scientists.

The secrecy with which animals in laboratories are kept from the public eye is no accident. The use of animals in laboratories often amounts to legally-sanctioned animal abuse.

The United States and the small African nation of Gabon are the only two countries in the world that continue to use chimpanzees as test subjects in behavioral and biomedical research.

Recently, I did a public records request or information on the monkeys that were exported out of Florida and imported into South Carolina. Imagine my surprise when I was completely denied any records by the state of South Carolina.

A recent New York Times headline read, "Tests in Mice Misled Researchers on 3 Diseases, Study Says." But how can we strengthen the broken legal structures that purport to protect laboratory animals?

Animal Protection Groups Charge Federal Investigations Reveal Severe Neglect of Animals

Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) Proposes Historical Bill to Reinstate Protection to Birds, Rats, and Mice

New Mexico Drops Local Cruelty Ordinance at the Behest of Animal Testing Facility

University of Minnesota’s IACUC Refuses Public Access to Animal Testing Records

The Animal Legal Defense Fund urges all New Mexico residents to tell the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners not to drop their historic animal cruelty law.

Life is a terrible, depressing existence for chimpanzees caught in the web of medical research and testing.

Shocking Fatalities Among Monkeys at Lab Prompt Inquiry to Cambridge Public Health Department

Great news from Puerto Rico! The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has sounded the death knell for the Bioculture monkey breeding facility in Guayama after several years of litigation and public protest by local citizens and animal rights activists.

Your generous donation, and all you do to support ALDF in your everyday life, truly makes a difference... to the animals abused on factory farms, in puppy mills, and in the name of entertainment.

Rats were motivated to act empathically and made personal sacrifices to do so.

Current regulations under the Endangered Species Act have created an illogical and self-defeating double standard that grants "wild" chimpanzees vital protections under the Act, while denying "captive" chimpanzees in the United States any protection at all.

Call Congress today!

Allergan, the maker of Botox, had a process approved earlier this year by the Food and Drug Administration that will allow Allergan to test its product on cells in a lab dish, instead of having to test every batch on live animals.

In August 2011, the University of Pennsylvania was issued an official warning letter for its "failure to establish programs of adequate veterinary care" for some of its research animals.

Despite a huge effort to encourage Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to use his line-item veto power to exclude an unnecessary animal cruelty loophole provision from the state budget, Walker signed the budget on June 26th, 2011, with the provision as written.

Now is a good time to consider how animals are used in education and whether their treatment is humane.

186 chimpanzees who were supposedly retired from use in research will be called back into service as research subjects in 2011.

Were you ever that passionate? Were you ever that hopeful?

European Union passes "Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes" law, providing for better lab animal welfare

On June 21, lawyers, regulators and policy makers converged in Washington D.C. to discuss the necessary steps to ensure that chemical testing protects public health, the environment, and animals -- using twenty-first century toxicology.

Obama backs plan to lift ban on commercial whaling.

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Last year, Americans spent roughly $18 billion dollars on coffee—and virtually nothing to protect animals from some of the worst abuses imaginable. Is this who we are?

Faster than you can say "stop building," Puerto Rico's Appeals Court decided in late-January to let construction continue on a primate breeding facility in Guayama while it considers an appeal filed two days earlier by the builder Bioculture Ltd.

Construction of primate breeding facility in Puerto Rico stopped.

Bob Barker may best be known as the beloved host of the longest running TV game show in history. But "The Price is Right" host is also a long-time advocate for animals and is the keynote speaker at Animal Legal Defense Fund's "Future of Animal Law" conference on April 9-11 at Harvard Law School.

Does animal law threaten animal research?

Podcasts are now available of Animal Law: The Links, The Animal Law Conference at Lewis & Clark, hosted by the Center for Animal Law Studies and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at Lewis & Clark Law School.

I'm just back from the latest and, arguably, the most exciting in our series of symposia on the path to implementing the National Research Council's 2007 Report on Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century.

ALDF Developing Symposia to Explore Non-animal Toxicity Tests

A rare opportunity to save animals from intense suffering.

A primate research center seeks millions in stimulus money to expand its facility.

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments.

In 2007, the U.S. National Research Council released a report entitled "Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and A Strategy". This Report proposes a new paradigm for toxicity testing, one that moves away from using live animals and replaces them with alternatives, such as cell cultures, tissues cultures, computer models and other methods.

I spend more evenings than I'd care to admit trying to divine what my dog and two cats are thinking. It is a never-ending source of amusement for me to watch them relate to each other, and to me, and see how they motivate and manipulate each other.

I had the time of my life for a weekend in February - cooking and cleaning for seven wonderful chimpanzees (Jamie, Burrito, Annie, Missy, Negra, Jody and Foxie) at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) and spending precious time watching them.

Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) is the paradise that I have had the honor and privilege of taking part in, from a series of angles and relationships. You are invited to read about my first trip to visit the Cle Elum Seven, the chimpanzees who have made the incredible journey from as many as thirty years of torture in a small dark barren cage (no blankets, no toys, nothing to interest them at all) to the gift of Sanctuary, in every sense of the word. Finally and forever, they are safe.

Move Follows Storm of Opposition From Animal Protection Groups