Beagles bark, money talks, & the two Waynes whose work achieved the deal––Hsiung & Pacelle ––are left chained to the doghouse BLUE MOUNDS, Wisconsin––The decade-long campaign to close the Ridglan Farms beagles-for-research breeding facility begun by Direct Action Everywhere founder and Simple Heart blogger Wayne Hsiung in 2017 can now be called a victory, at […]
Bigger than Ridglan beagles: Ontario bans dog & cat use in medical research
Wayne Hsiung set for trial, Wayne Pacelle buys more beagles, Colorado dog & cat lab closes, & Born Free USA to get retired CDC monkeys BLUE MOUNDS, Wisconsin; TORONTO, Ontario; DILLEY, Texas––The Ridglan beagles and the two Waynes, Wayne Pacelle and Wayne Hsiung, as of June 22, 2026 continued to dominate the news pertaining […]
Ridglan Farms beagle purchase: smokescreen for Farm Bill disaster
1,500 beagles win; 76 million pigs lose. WASHINGTON D.C.; MIDDLETON, Wisconsin––Even as the U.S. House of Representatives on the morning of April 30, 2026 passed the 2026 Farm Bill, by a vote of 224-200, which if also passed by the U.S. Senate would erase Wayne Pacelle’s signature political achievements on behalf of 76 million farmed […]
Ridglan Farms charges filed, plus guest column by Jon Hochschartner
Editors’ preface: Three days after an unsuccessful April 18, 2026 attempt by about 200 animal advocates to storm the Ridglan Farms beagle-breeding facility in Blue Mound, Wisconsin, the tear gas and pepper spray have drifted from the scene on the wind. Met with force unprecedented in more than a half century of frequent animal rights […]
Ridglan Farms round #2: tear gas, mass busts, & no beagles rescued
About 200 protesters were met with clouds of gas & a media release barrage of excrement BLUE MOUNDS, Wisconsin––The one reliable statistic emerging from the April 18, 2026 attempted open rescue of 1,500 beagles believed to remain at the Ridglan Farms breeding complex near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin was that not one beagle was removed […]
Is lab use of “model organisms,” including mice, really down by 68%?
White Coat Waste Project has more faith in defunding than in Three Rs progress; Wayne Hsiung pushes for more “open rescue” WASHINGTON D.C.––At a glance, a newly published study directed by University of Bonn geneticist and evolutionary biologist Nicolas Gompel seems to suggest a drastic drop underway quietly in the background of biomedical research for […]
Ridglan Farms raid on March 15, 2026: were any beagles rescued?
Outcome of the “open rescue” of Ridglan beagles remains clear as the icy mud underfoot BLUE MOUNDS, Wisconsin––Breaking into the Ridglan Farms beagle breeding compound on the morning of March 15, 2026, in freezing light rain a day ahead of the schedule that Direct Action Everywhere founder and Simple Heart blogger Wayne Hsiung had publicized […]
Zoe Rosenberg out of jail Christmas Eve; U.K. “open rescuers” convicted
“Conditions of house arrest are very strict” SANTA ROSA, California––Direct Action Everywhere activist Zoe Rosenberg, 23, “is set to be released from the Sonoma County Main Adult Detention Facility on Christmas Eve,” San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Connor Letourneau reported on December 22, 2025. Letourneau confirmed a December 20, 2025 posting to Zoe Rosenberg’s […]
Zoe Rosenberg gets 30 days; she & Wayne Hsiung both hit with restitution
Relatively light jail sentence, but 6-figure restitution to be paid to poultry firms SANTA ROSA, California––Sonoma County Superior Court judge Kenneth Gnoss on December 3, 2025 in Santa Rosa, California, sentenced Direct Action Everywhere activist Zoe Rosenberg, 23, of Berkeley, California, to serve 30 days in jail, 60 days in a “jail alternative” program, and […]
Chicken activist Zoe Rosenberg convicted; Ridglan beagle farm to close
Direct Action Everywhere cases reach opposite outcomes 24 hours apart SANTA ROSA, California––Sonoma County, California, is still farm country, a Santa Rosa jury found in effect on October 29, 2025, convicting chicken rescuer Zoe Rosenberg, 23, on three misdemeanor counts of trespassing and tampering with a vehicle, and one felony count of conspiracy. Sonoma County […]