Dog Research Exposed

On December 29, 2022 President Biden signed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 into law which removed the 1938 requirement to use dogs and other animals as part of the process to obtain a license for new human drugs. While this law does not ban the use of animals in scientific research, it allows researchers to employ Novel Approach Methods (NAMs)--human-biology-based technologies such as organs-on-chips--instead of animal testing. NAMs...

History was made during the summer of 2022. The massive research beagle breeding facility in Virginia called Envigo was officially shut down due to the large amount of animal welfare violations uncovered from inside. In this episode we get an in-depth look at how the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) carried out the Envigo rescue operation.

Lindsay Hamrick, Director of Shelter Outreach and Engagement for HSUS, was in charg...

On March 18, three activists go on trial for rescuing three dogs from Ridglan Farms. Ridglan Farms—located in Dane County, Wisconsin—is a research puppy mill that keeps hundreds of dogs stacked in cages in windowless sheds and sells their puppies for experimentation. Find out how you can get involved and help the beagles trapped inside Ridglan Farms. Support the activists who saved these three beagles’ lives and who will bravely be...

On the night of April 17, 2017, three courageous people representing the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) rescued three beagles from inside Ridglan Farms—an enormous factory farm breeding beagles for cruel research experiments in Wisconsin. The beagles—Julie, Anna, and Lucy—are now safe in loving homes. However, the three activists who saved their lives now face felony burglary and felony theft charges. This compe...

How can someone work in a research laboratory where their job entails experimenting on dogs? While the abuse of dogs is criminalized outside the walls of the laboratory, inside the laboratory it’s accepted and lawful. Why is there such a disconnect in how we define animal abuse? Furthermore, if people’s jobs include harming and killing dogs and other animals, what effect could this have on their personal lives—and our society in ge...

Beagle Freedom Project (BFP) founder and president Shannon Keith joins us once again to reveal BFP’s most recent, ground-breaking efforts to help dogs in research laboratories. As one of the most well-known activists in the fight against animal testing, Shannon is always ready to jump in to help wherever she is needed—even if the need is an ocean away. Heartening rescue stories—including one about the royal beagle Mama Mia—, more d...

When the massive research dog breeding facility Envigo in Virginia was shut down in 2022 due to numerous animal welfare violations, over 4,000 beagles were set free and adopted out in what has become the largest dog rescue in U.S. history. Sadly, these beagles were not given names in Envigo—they were given ear tattoos as puppies to identify them—much like a barcode on a piece of inventory.

During the rescue process, the over 4,000 ...

Undercover investigators in the field of animal cruelty work in absolute secrecy in research laboratories, factory farms, and other places where animal abuse is conducted on a daily basis as part of the job. Their mission? To expose this cruelty and present footage to lawmakers, the media, and members of the public who have the power to stop it. Get an exclusive look into the heart, soul, and the lives of undercover investigators a...

Lori Cohen’s life changed forever when she got her first beagle and discovered the painful truth that dogs are still used in large numbers for experimental research globally—including her home country of Canada. She was so moved to help research dogs and help change the paradigm of animal testing that she founded her own rescue organization called The Beagle Alliance. Lori is currently the executive director of The Beagle Alliance,...

Dogs are obviously very different from humans, yet dogs and other animals are still being used as models for humans in drug development. Not only is this inhumane, but could this be one of the major reasons we still don’t have cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer despite decades of research? In this fascinating episode we’re talking with Dr. Jarrod Bailey, a geneticist from Animal Free Research UK. He i...

The anti-vivisection movement—those who fight against animal experimentation—has a rich history that rarely makes its way into general knowledge. But, you can be certain that since the dawn of animal research in America, people have thought that hurting and killing dogs and other animals for science is morally and ethically wrong and they have stood up against it.

Lindsey Soffes is a Program Officer at Rise for Animals, an animal r...

In the summer of 2022, the world witnessed the largest dog rescue in United States history when Envigo—a company in Virginia breeding beagles for experimental research—was found guilty on many charges of animal cruelty and was shut down. All of the 4,500 beagles suffering within Envigo’s cages were rescued and adopted to loving homes.

One of the champions for these beagles was Senator Bill Stanley, a Republican representing the sta...

Our relationships with animals, whether as individuals or as a society, directly affects human health. In this profound episode, Dr. Aysha Akhtar shares why having empathy for animals is so important for human life on all levels. She reveals that the key to sustainable human health is getting away from animal testing—which causes significant harm, pain, and suffering to dogs and other research animals—and replacing it with more hum...

John Curtin is a veteran animal rights activist in the United Kingdom who now heads up Camp Beagle—a protest that sits right outside the gates of Marshall BioResources, or MBR. An American company, MBR breeds beagles and other animals for biomedical research. For over 18 months people from all over the world have come to Camp Beagle in the U.K. to protest against MBR. Camp Beagle is an actual 'camp'--complete with tents and food, a...

Considering adopting a former laboratory dog but not sure what to expect? Dr. Stacy Lopresti-Goodman joins us to discuss the negative impact that confinement, social isolation, and physical abuse have on the psychological well-being of animals rescued from laboratories. Her latest published research paper is on the adoptability of former research beagles and their ability to overcome the trauma of life in a lab. This groundbreaking...

What was it like to be part of the largest dog rescue in U.S. history—the 4,000 beagles of Envigo? These beagles were destined for a life of cruel and painful experimentation and certain death in research laboratories around the world until Envigo—a massive research dog breeding facility in Virginia—was shut down.  John Ramer, Director of Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary, was one of the few people who were allowed onto Envigo’s prop...

The U.S. government is the driving force behind most of the dog testing taking place in America today. It is a little-known fact that the taxes we pay as citizens every year are actually funding the largest animal testing organization in the world: the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, rocks this episode and sheds light on what’s happ...

In 2021-2022, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) conducted a seven-month-long undercover investigation at Inotiv—an animal research laboratory in Indiana—and what they found inside was horrific animal suffering. While most of the animals in these experiments at Inotiv have already been killed, there remain 48 beagles who are being used to test a new drug for Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, and their experiment is about to en...