Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve found themselves seeing eye to eye with the Trump administration. This year, the White House has broadcast its intent to greatly reduce animal experimentation in the United States. In early April, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would require less testing on animals for the development of a widely used class of drugs—an approach, the agency says, that should speed up the drug-development process and eventually lower drug prices. Weeks later, the National Institutes of Health declared its intention to reduce the use of animals in biomedical experiments in the United States;

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