Watercolor of a long, peaceful line of walkers and a few dogs on a country road through autumn fields and trees
Patricia Mikkelson

What the March to Abolish Animal Testing Taught Me About Working Together

Watercolor of a long, peaceful line of walkers and a few dogs on a country road through autumn fields and trees
A long line of people walking together down a country road in the fall, with beagles trotting beside them. Every step was taken for the animals.

In late September 2026, hundreds of people walked 207 miles across New York State, from Albany to the gates of Marshall BioResources, one of the largest breeders of dogs and other animals for laboratory testing in the United States. The walk took two weeks.

What moved me most was how many groups worked together, with real friendship. In this article I share what the march taught me, and why it inspired the Animal Earth Alliance.

Read the full article on the Animal Earth Alliance blog

I wrote this together with Claude, an AI from Anthropic. I brought my ideas and what I learned following the march, and Claude helped write it and expand the research.

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