White Coat Waste Project has one mission: to stop the government from wasting $20 billion taxpayer dollars each year on animal testing.

So you might wonder why we are supporting a bill to prevent the government from spending one more red cent to buy or kill animals from China’s live animal markets—wild animals, and cats and dogs, are sold and slaughtered for human consumption. 

What’s the connection?

Sit down and get ready for a truly disturbing story that’ll explain our commitment to the bill we call Delilah’s Law, named for a cat who survived a government lab that used tax dollars to purchase animals from live animal markets in China.

This is Delilah, the government lab survivor after whom Delilah’s Law is named.

The USDA bought cats and puppies from wet markets. We have receipts.

Last year, a WCW investigation revealed the U.S. government has gone on shopping sprees for cats and puppies at China’s wet markets and slaughterhouses. 

For years, Uncle Sam used your tax dollars to buy the animals, who were dismembered—their body parts then transported back to the United States, in carry-on luggage, to be used in bizarre, wasteful, and outrageously cruel kitten cannibalism experiments at a notorious U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Maryland.

Sounds unbelievable, right? Well, we have receipts—click here to see them. You can also check them out in WJLA’s great story about Delilah’s Law.

Records obtained by WCW showing how the USDA’s “kitten slaughterhouse” lab fed body parts of cats from China’s wet markets to kittens in its Maryland lab.

Among the verified purchases are 34 cats bought at a Chinese meat market, killed, with their tongues, brains, and hearts then shipped to the Maryland lab, to be fed to kittens. Delilah was used by the USDA to breed the kittens who would eat the cat meat from China.

And hey, the USDA even cops to doing it, stating it “only purchased feline specimens that were slaughtered by Chinese market vendors for food in accordance with People’s Republic of China laws.” That doesn’t really make it any better. Also, newsflash: There are no laws governing cat slaughter in China.

Let’s stop the USDA from spending our money at China’s wet markets ever again.

We got the kitten slaughterhouse shut down, and adopted Delilah into a loving home. Now we’re working with lawmakers to make sure none of your money is ever used to support wet markets again.