Spread The News: Media Can’t Get Enough Of 🔥🔥🔥 WCW-Led Report Saying Most VA Dog Testing Is Unnecessary

Posted by Arin Greenwood
02 July 2020 | Blog


What’s black and white, and 🔥 all over? News stories about the National Academies of Sciences’s (NAS) comprehensive review of dog testing at Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) labs, that’s what!

The NAS report came out yesterday, following three  years of WCW investigations, lobbying, and campaigns against government dog experiments—and it confirmed what we said to the committee conducting the review: Most VA dog testing is unnecessary, and the VA needs to step up efforts to prevent wasteful dog tests and develop and use alternatives.

You know and we know this is a Very Big Deal.

We are thrilled so many important news outlets agree—and that they’re highlighting how our work spurred the report, and our efforts to put an end once and for all to the VA’s cruel, wasteful taxpayer-funded dog experiments.

The Washington Post story made it into the paper’s print edition!


Here’s the Washington Post’s great story, quoting our VP Justin Goodman—the piece was also picked up by Stars and Stripes:

The report “confirms what we’ve been saying for years and directly told the committee: The VA’s barbaric taxpayer-funded dog testing is wasteful, cruel, secretive, and in need of drastic reforms,” said Justin Goodman, the group’s vice president of advocacy and public policy. “It’s not perfect, but it’s progress.”

And USA Today‘s story, which got reprinted in newspapers all across the country:

Critics of the experiments said the findings ae a step forward. Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at White Coat Waste Project, said in a written statement they confirm the VA’s “barbaric” canine testing program needs an overhaul.

“Veterans and other taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for wasteful and cruel VA dog tests that are opposed by most people and — as is the case with VA’s ongoing dog testing — are outside of the VA’s mission to address veteran-specific ailments,” he said.

Military Times, cited us too:

“Veterans and other taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for wasteful and cruel VA dog tests that are opposed by most people and — as is the case with VA’s ongoing dog testing — are outside of the VA’s mission to address veteran-specific ailments,” said Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy for the group.

That the media would be 👀  about the report is no surprise. We’ve been working with Congress and advocates for years to end the VA’s cruel and wasteful dog testing program, and the media’s been covering our efforts, and our successes, all this time.

Let’s just give you just a couple of examples so we don’t keep you here all day! Here’s USA Today in 2017,  the Daily Mail in 2017, the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2017, Business Insider in 2018, and well,  we could go on and on and on!

Of course, we’ve got Science Magazine crediting WCW in its 2018 story noting that the NAS’s “review traces back to a campaign launched by the White Coat Waste Project in March 2017.”

“The findings from this report will impact how science is done on dogs across the country,” predicted the chairperson of a pro-animal testing industry group, in describing the WCW-led review of government dog labs in the 2018 Science Magazine story.

Indeed, we will be here fighting until we’ve put a total end to the VA’s barbaric, taxpayer-funded dog testing program.

We are doing all we can to get us there as fast as we can.

Your support is absolutely critical, and we definitely don’t complain when celebrities lend a hand, as well—shout-outs to Go-Go’s founder Jane Wiedlin, three-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor, Grammy-nominated songwriter Neko Case, and Lara Trump for your help!

More than 120 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have joined our fight by introducing the Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species (PUPPERS) Act (HR 1155) to de-fund “maximum pain” experiments and other cruel and wasteful dog testing at the VA.

Let’s make some more big news soon, by getting the bipartisan PUPPERS Act passed into law.

Please help by writing your Congressmembers and urging them to support the PUPPERS Act to permanently cut federal funding for all painful dog experiments at the VA!

Blog Comments

Now stop this in moral act

Stop this disgrace now. You are no better than the evil vile sociopaths of china

Basta far soffrire inutilmente degli animali innocenti e indifesi

Add a comment

*Please complete all fields correctly

Related Blogs

Posted by anieves | 25 March 2024
  WCW has uncovered an alarming pattern of recent animal lab accidents at Colorado State University, which is working with the notorious EcoHealth Alliance and the NIH to build a...
Posted by anieves | 12 March 2024
  Following a recent White Coat Waste Project (WCW) investigation, a WCW-led coalition of 11 organizations is urging Congress to cut USDA funding to animal labs in China and other...
Posted by anieves | 11 March 2024
  WCW just launched a billboard campaign near the Stokes VA in Cleveland urging President Biden to cancel the lab’s misguided plan to restart wasteful and cruel cat experiments and...

WCW passes Bill to "Eliminate" All Tests on Cats, Dogs, and Primates at the VA!