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End the breeding
of dogs for testing.

It's the law in Europe. It needs to be the law here. The federal officials who can change that — you elect them.

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The scale of this

An industry built on bred-for-suffering animals.

The federal Animal Welfare Act covers about 5% of laboratory animals. Nothing in U.S. law bans breeding them in the first place.

~23,000
dogs at Marshall BioResources
Advocacy estimate. Marshall supplies labs in the US, UK, France, and China — beagles, ferrets, cats, minipigs.
~2,000
dogs at Ridglan Farms
Wisconsin. Surrendering its breeding license by July 1, 2026 under public pressure.
~5%
of U.S. lab animals covered by the Animal Welfare Act
Rats, mice, and birds bred for research — the other 95% — are explicitly excluded by statute.

The three fronts

Federal first. Marshall next. Ridglan as proof.

Public pressure forced a settlement at Ridglan. The same strategy now turns to a much larger target — and to the federal levers that govern this whole supply chain.

Federal

End the breeding of animals for testing.

Stop federal funding for outdated animal testing. Push HHS, NIH, and the FDA toward non-animal methods. Reps. Pocan (WI-2) and Langworthy (NY-23) have led — every senator and representative should follow.

New York · Marshall

Bigger. Global. Next.

Marshall BioResources, near Rochester, is the largest research-animal breeder in North America. Colonies in the U.S., U.K., France, and China. Beagles, ferrets, cats, minipigs. Advocates estimate ~23,000 dogs at any time.

Wisconsin · Ridglan

Free the dogs. Finish the job.

Ridglan agreed to surrender its Wisconsin breeding license by July 1, 2026; rescue groups have an agreement to purchase ~1,500 of the beagles held there. Get every remaining dog out alive.

Leaders speaking up

Two members of Congress — one from each party — have already led.

Their actions named Ridglan specifically. The federal asks they're making apply to every breeder in this supply chain.

Democrat

Rep. Mark Pocan

he/him

“In my district, a beagle breeding facility called Ridglan Farms has hundreds of code violations, including serious harm to the health of the dogs, yet the NIH is still giving funding to groups that use the beagles from this facility. Today, I urged Secretary Kennedy to stop this …”

— X post · April 16, 2026

Pocan represents Wisconsin's 2nd District — the district where Ridglan operates. He has met this moment with moral clarity. Every other Wisconsin House rep and both senators should follow.

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Republican

Rep. Nicholas A. Langworthy

he/him

“I urge you to take further action by ending any National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding streams that support research involving dogs sourced from Ridglan Farms… Immediately suspend funding for any projects that rely on Ridglan beagles.”

— Letter to HHS Sec. Kennedy & NIH Dir. Bhattacharya · April 24, 2026

Wrote to HHS Sec. Kennedy and NIH Director Bhattacharya in April 2026 demanding immediate suspension of NIH funding for Ridglan-beagle research. Republican leadership on ending vivisection — bigger picture: Marshall BioResources, near his own NY-23 district, is 10× the size of Ridglan.

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The line

  • No animal deserves to be bred for suffering.
  • No dog, cat, ferret, minipig, monkey, rabbit, rat, mouse, or any other animal is disposable.
  • Marshall is bigger, global, and next.
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