{"id":781204,"date":"2026-05-22T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781204"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:01:37","slug":"exclusive-video-a-real-time-short-film-of-the-april-18-rescue-mission-at-ridglan-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781204","title":{"rendered":"‘Rescued’: A short film of the April 18 rescue mission at Ridglan Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse, was with one group of animal rights activists as they planned and trained for their April 18 rescue operation, and then finally arrived at Ridglan to carry it out. He filmed it all and has produced an exclusive short film that offers an inside look at this very risky yet ultimately wildly successful mission.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GLENN GREENWALD:<\/strong> On April 18, hundreds of activists descended upon Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin. Ridglan has long been notorious among animal rights groups for the horrific conditions in which it keeps thousands of beagles, which Ridglan breeds into the world to sell to corporations and research facilities engaged in gruesome and often fatal government-funded experiments. These activists have been working to shut down Ridglan and rescue these dogs for almost a full decade. (An investigative article I wrote back in 2018, titled \u201cBred to Suffer,\u201d documents these industrialized horrors and was largely enabled by their heroic work.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite how dark and grim all of this is, their effort had not just a happy ending but also a rather inspirational one. Dramatic footage of these activists being violently attacked by police as well as private security hired by Ridglan went viral, and brought widespread attention to the systematized abuses of dogs by Ridglan. That, in turn, engendered one of the most trans-ideological and bipartisan coalitions \u2013 composed of political officials, media figures, and ordinary citizens from every political camp \u2013 uniting to demand that Ridglan be shut down and the beagles released. I wrote in detail about this remarkable public reaction last week.<\/em><\/p>\n

The public pressure and spotlight brought to bear by these activists finally became too much for Ridglan to sustain. They were forced to release the beagles to various dog rescue groups as part of a \u201csale,\u201d and the internet is now replete with viral videos of Ridglan dogs finding loving homes. Ridglan has agreed to relinquish its operational license on July 1.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are still roughly 500 beagles left at Ridglan, and legal proceedings are underway to prevent the corporation from killing them before its July 1 closure. And many other facilities continue to engage in similar behavior. But as a result of this Ridglan rescue mission, there is now far more awareness of, and public anger about, this dog experimentation industry and the government funds that enable these hideous but gratuitous experiments. SOURCE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse, was with one group of animal rights activists as they planned and trained for their April 18 rescue operation, and then finally arrived at Ridglan to carry it out. He filmed it all and has produced an exclusive short film that offers an inside look at this very risky yet ultimately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,22,23,25],"tags":[26,27,29,30,31,35,37],"class_list":["post-781204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-morality","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781209,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781204\/revisions\/781209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}