The FBI's involvement in this crackdown is also wild. The rescuers are accused of trespass and burglary. Neither is a federal crime.
Repeatedly and willfully violating the Animal Welfare Act is, however, a federal crime. Yet the FBI has never investigated Ridglan Farms.
Happening Now: Animal rights activists are inside the state capitol demanding the dogs at Ridglan Farms in Dane County, Wisconsin be freed.
Some are also showing the injuries they received over the weekend at the attempted break-in.
Please don't let them wind up like that evil dude from Michigan, Demoncratic Rep Shri Kandehar...
Representative Shri Thanedar (D-MI) faced scrutiny over allegations that he abandoned over 100 dogs and monkeys in his chemical testing laboratory, Ann Arbor Ecology Center , when it went bankrupt in 2010. The Humane Society Legislative Fund noted the animals were left without care, and employees intervened to feed them. Thanedar has previously denied that any animals were abandoned.
Key Details:
The Incident: In 2010, after his company, Avomeen Analytical Services, faced bankruptcy, more than 170 dogs and monkeys (mostly beagles) were allegedly left in the facility, report sources like the New York Post.
Neglect Allegations: The animals were allegedly left without proper food, water, or care.
Rescue: Reports indicate that employees broke into the facility to care for the animals, and they were later rescued by animal welfare groups.
https://t.co/RdOk5Zy4zk
We have a new letter from Wayne in jail. His message?
The lies of the Dane County Sheriff’s Office will not stop the rescue of beagles from Ridglan.
Read on Substack.
#SaveTheDogs#RightToRescue
(From Wayne's team)
From jail, Wayne shared this message: "I am in tears hearing these stories about what is unfolding at Ridglan Farms. This is the kind of bravery from ordinary people that changes the world. We cannot give up on the dogs. If we stay focused on this purpose, the repression will backfire."
Read more from Wayne. Link in bio.
#SaveTheDogs #RightToRescue
@waynehhsiung Beagles @TuckerCarlson. Beagles. You’ve been there for them before. I know you’re 💯 doggo. These good folks could use your support. God bless.
Federal law enforcement is investigating beagle rescuers as terrorists.
Ridglan Farms is torturing thousands of beagles, subjecting them to surgery without anesthetics and confining them in tiny cages for years until they go mad and spin in endless circles. But somehow the FBI thinks the people trying to rescue these dogs are the terrorists. You can't make this make sense.
Please help - Call the Wisconsin Attorney General's Office and urge them to save the 2,000 dogs suffering at Ridglan Farms: (608) 266-1221 and dial 4
#SaveTheDogs
For over a year, @WhiteCoatWaste has exposed @SecKennedy@NIHDirector_Jay for sending millions of new tax $ to labs that torture Ridglan beagles (& lying about it) despite pleas from GOP lawmakers, MAGA & MAHA allies & taxpayers.
We told them to stop & they told us to shut up.
Starting over a year ago, at their request, we provided Kennedy and Bhattacharya’s teams with info on taxpayer funded grants paying for cat and dog testing, including Fauci-approved experiments on Ridglan beagles.
We also connected them with a sanctuary that was willing to rehabilitate and rehome all of the animals.
Instead of shutting down the labs and retiring the survivors, the NIH gave the labs we identified more money. Jay and his deputy “animal testing czar” Nicole Kleinstreuer and others repeatedly lied to the public and said that they ended it. RFK literally lied to Congress about it this week.
In truth, they doled out over $126 million in new funding to dog and cat labs since RFK took office.
Since day one of RFK‘s tenure, he has had the authority to cut funding for these grants overnight. He has even admitted this. But instead, he has kept them alive.
Senior NIH and HHS officials reached out to us and told us to shut up, and even abused their authority (and federal ethics rules) by reaching out to our board and urging them to disavow us for criticizing the agency’s continued funding for dog and cat testing.
We have a long list of receipts proving all of this.
If you wanna be mad about what’s happening at Ridglan, blame Jay, Nicole and RFK.
⚠️Don't let them fool you! 🤥
That there is animal welfare act to protect animals! It's not properly enforced by @USDA and doesn't cover most animals at all!
Or that animals are used as the last resort! That's just what we tell you so you let us continue 🙃
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Why animal testing fails so often? Glad you asked!
Because every animal species is physiologically, anatomically, biochemically, and immunologically different! We can never overcome the issue of external validity with animal testing!
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Even when drugs are tested on nonhuman PRIMATES they can still kill people, which is not surprising. Animal testing results are not necessarily translatable to humans, and they can even mislead us, leading to catastrophes like drug trials TGN1412, aka the Elephant Man Trial:
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Here is why mandatory animal testing costs patients their lives!
In addition to what I explained in the video, many drugs with potential in humans fail because they were rejected in animals, and vice versa. 4/10
✅What alternatives are available?
@neuralink & @elonmusk if you used these alternatives you wouldn't be under federal investigation. Please consider switching to better alternatives that are cheaper, human relevant, safer, faster, and better for patients!
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BREAKING: Senate unanimously passed the bipartisan legislation, authored by @CoryBooker & @RandPaul:
#FDA Modernization Act, ending outdated mandatory animal testing requirements by @US_FDA, set in place in 1938, before invention of digital computers! Congrats everyone! 🧵1/10