Posted by Amanda Nieves | 24 June 2022

Starting in 2018, and every year since, WCW-backed language defunding wasteful and cruel dog and cat experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs has been included in federal spending bills — and this year is no exception. The House Appropriations Committee, which sets the budgets for various federal agencies and departments, recently released its Fiscal...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 23 June 2022

Since 2019, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has been leading the fight to defund the barbaric and wasteful practice known as “live tissue training” (LTT) — stabbing, shooting, burning, and dismembering pigs and goats as part of law enforcement officers’ medical training at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Records we obtained through a successful lawsuit...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 22 June 2022

For years, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has been working to expose and cut burdensome animal testing red tape at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which forces drugmakers to poison puppies and other animals in expensive, cruel and wasteful experiments, even when they would prefer to use more effective and cost-efficient alternatives that are readily...

Posted by MaryAnn Hussey | 03 June 2022

  When we recently started seeing media headlines like “Gene-editing experiment turns cute hamsters into ‘aggressive’ beasts,” we knew that only taxpayer-funded white coats and government bureaucrats would conceive of (and bankroll) such wacky waste and animal abuse. Sure enough, we were right — and we have the receipts. And now, thanks to a new...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 02 June 2022

Less than two weeks ago, White Coat Waste Project revealed that Dr. Fauci was at it again. This time, he and the white coats at his division of the NIH wasted $1.8 million to commission FIVE new cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs, including six-month-old puppies, to test an experimental new drug for a runny...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 25 May 2022

White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has been leading the charge to end taxpayer-funded animal experiments in government labs and retire the survivors. We were deeply dismayed that most federal agencies did not allow taxpayers to adopt animals when their experiments came to an end, so WCW launched the first national campaign to make retirement a...

Posted by MaryAnn Hussey | 25 May 2022

Free Speech Victory! At the core of White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is a belief: taxpayers deserve to know how our money is being spent. Our strategy to shut down government labs has always been F.E.D.. Using the Freedom of Information Act, we FIND wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded animal experiments. Then we EXPOSE them to...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 23 May 2022

White Coat Waste Project made national and international headlines in 2021, after our #BeagleGate campaign revealed a series of cruel and wasteful dog experiments funded with tax dollars by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Remember de-barking puppies? Infecting dogs with heartworm? Infesting beagles with sand flies? Injecting dogs with cocaine? Yeah, those experiments. Many...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 20 May 2022

Congress must investigate news taxpayer-funded EcoHealth covered up yet more in Wuhan lab Written by Antony Bellotti    |    Originally posted by the New York Post  Dangerous, taxpayer-funded gain-of-function animal experiments are at the center of the debate about COVID’s origins. Members of Congress are calling for a new investigation into what they call the “mice...