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The NIH Has a Chance to End a 35-Year Taxpayer-Funded Failure Liam Gray & Ryan Merkley · May 5, 2026PJMedia News outlets and social media feeds in recent weeks have repeated the images: on April 18, activists trying to free dogs from a notorious Wisconsin breeding facility were pepper-sprayed and shot with rubber bullets by police. Now, Ridglan Farms has agreed to sell many of the dogs to animal welfare groups. But the people who tried to free the beagles from the facility were spurred not only by the documented animal abuse inside, but also by the experiments in which the animals were slated to be used. Canine factory farms like Ridglan are kept in business by experimenters who receive fat checks from

New proposal could legalize killing more animals Isaac DeBlasio · May 1, 2026The Hill The Department of Agriculture announced a proposal to reduce food costs by allowing for increased line speeds in slaughterhouses with birds and pigs. This is being championed as a step towards further economic freedom and reduction of food insecurity. However, an increase in slaughter speed is not the free-market win it is made out to be. In truth, it highlights a grave moral wrongdoing on American soil and exposes how easily big government can strip billions of individuals of their freedoms.   Behind the thick, windowless walls of slaughterhouses lies the cruelest injustice in American history: the mass killing of farmed animals. In the U.S., nearly 10 billion land animals

The public is done with animal testing. So why isn’t the government? Meghan Miller · May 2, 2026Washington Examiner After years of court hearings, investigations, open rescues, and protests, the notorious beagle breeding and research facility Ridglan Farms has finally agreed to release 1,500 dogs to rescue organizations. This is certainly a win for animals, but the era of animal testing is far from over, particularly because the federal government enables it. While the Left and Right don’t align on much these days, over 85% of Republicans and Democrats do agree animal testing should be phased out. Notable voices across the political spectrum, including Lara Trump, Tomi Lahren, Dave Portnoy, Jennifer Welch, and groups such as Democracy Now! have spoken out against Ridglan, unequivocally

Welcome to the Year of the Horse Christian Josi and Suzanne Roy · January 14, 2026PJ Media Americans love horses. The bond we share with these magnificent animals runs deep, going back thousands of years to their domestication on the Eurasian steppes. Horses symbolize beauty, strength, and freedom. Their images fill our art and advertising. We name our cars and sports teams after them. But we owe them far more than admiration—we owe them everything. Modern civilization, and the America we know today, would not exist without horses. As historian Timothy Winegard observes in The Horse, “the horse dominated every facet of human life and shaped the very scope of human ambition… and we still live among its galloping shadows.” The

HORSE ABUSERS SMELL FREEDOM Roger Stone & Christian Josi · December 7, 2025StoneZone They think because of Biden’s mistakes that USDA have left the gate open and are ready to bolt through A ruthless faction inside the horse show world thinks the current moment offers them cover. They believe confusion in Washington and misinterpretations of recent rulings mean they can slip back into the shadows and continue the same cruelty they have practiced for half a century. They are already acting like the barn door has been cracked open. They are wrong. For more than fifty years, this faction has perfected one brutal formula: chemical burns, chains, pressure-shoes, stacks, weights — agony engineered to force the grotesque, high-stepping “Big Lick”

Real Unity Podcast:Honoring the Dignity of Animal Life | Liam Gray | Ep 7 Sienna Mae Heath & Liam Gray · December 10, 2025Free the People In this episode of Real Unity, Sienna Mae Heath sits down with Liam Gray, founder of the Wilberforce Institute—a public policy think tank dedicated to honoring the dignity of life, safeguarding free markets from corruption, and shaping policies that uphold the well-being of both humans and animals. Part 1 of our conversation explores the moral paradoxes inside conservation—like killing owls to save owls—the Quaker roots of reverence and restraint, and the emerging politics of compassion. Together, we trace how America has cared for animals, for people, and for principle, asking what it means to