• White Coat Waste‘s (WCW) new investigation uncovered how 1-month-old kittens had their eyelids sewn shut for a National Institutes of Health-funded collaboration in Canada.
• Records uncovered by WCW reveal that taxpayer-funded Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Georgia Tech white coats collaborated on cat experiments with a Canadian lab. 
• NIH grant records obtained by WCW revealed that MIT and Georgia Tech failed to disclose any use of cats or plans for a foreign collaboration.
• Georgia Tech claimed in grant documents that the use of cats is unethical, but it still collaborated on the cat testing in Canada.
• MIT violated federal law by failing to disclose NIH funding in a news article about the collaboration, hiding taxpayer support for these barbaric cat experiments from the public.
• WCW is demanding that the NIH stop funding all experiments on cats at home and abroad.
• WCW is the only animal protection organization to shut down federal feline labs in at least 40 years.

For years, White Coat Waste (WCW) has been documenting a disturbing pattern of kitten abuse by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

First, we exposed and ended Georgia Tech’s National Institutes of Health-funded treadmill experiments on zombified cats at a Kremlin-run laboratory. 

Then, we discovered NIH-funded Georgia Tech white coats drilling into cats’ skulls and implanting steel coils in their eyes with Canadian collaborators. We also revealed Georgia Tech’s involvement in horrific experiments with Russian collaborators where pigs and healthy cats had their legs amputated and were forced to walk with prosthetics. 

Georgia Tech was pocketing millions of taxpayer dollars from the NIH for these experiments, and it outsourced some of the worst elements of these cat tests to foreign labs—out of reach of U.S. oversight.

Now, the latest WCW Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation uncovered deplorable kitten experiments inside Canada’s Dalhousie University that were conducted with, and co-authored by, NIH-funded white coats from Georgia Tech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

REAL photo from inside the Canadian lab. White coats working with NIH-funded U.S. experimenters measured the level of blindness they intentionally inflicted on a kitten.

At just one month old, kittens had their eyelids sewn shut for weeks, depriving them of sight and inducing vision disability. Some were raised in complete darkness from birth until the completion of the experiment to induce blindness.

But the torture didn’t stop there. 

After weeks of forced blindness, experimenters pried open the kittens’ sewn eyelids to inject their already-damaged eyes with neurotoxins. These painful injections were repeated every two days, sometimes for weeks at a time. 

This diagram shows kittens being forced to jump toward visual patterns after their eyes were chemically paralyzed for experiments.

After enduring weeks of distress and invasive procedures, the kittens were killed, their brains dissected, and their bodies further poked and prodded by white coats after their untimely death. 

Despite the published studies explicitly citing NIH funding for these cat experiments, official grant records obtained by WCW via FOIA do not mention cats, or foreign collaboration, raising questions about whether the experimenters hid their plans for these cruel cat tests across the border.

Even more damning, Georgia Tech stated in grant applications, “For our current studies, we do not feel it is appropriate to use higher mammals (e.g. cats, monkeys, humans).” But that didn’t stop them from collaborating on these kitten experiments in Canada anyway.

Adding to the deception, MIT broke federal law by failing to disclose its NIH funding in a news article detailing the shady foreign cat testing collaboration. 

Under a long-standing law called the Stevens Amendment, federally funded institutions must disclose taxpayer funding in public statements about their work. MIT failed to do so, violating transparency laws and raising even more questions about what else they may be hiding.

WCW has filed a federal complaint against MIT with the NIH detailing this transparency violation and demanding that their tax funding be cut.

How many hard-earned American tax dollars have funded this secret network of kitten killers? Over $8.8 million since 2013.

Is this how you want your money spent?  

Given the new Trump Administration and its Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) relentless efforts to cut wasteful spending, we’re pushing to put this kitten torture on the chopping block.