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...

Posted by MaryAnn Hussey | 05 May 2022

It’s almost exactly two years since we first exposed how U.S. taxpayers were unwittingly footing the bill for dangerous coronavirus experiments on animals at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Since then, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and its supporters have been relentlessly urging lawmakers to take action, and we’re getting results. This Wednesday, the...

Posted by MaryAnn Hussey | 29 April 2022

Beesly the Beagle Visits Lawmakers in DC! Last year, White Coat Waste Project released “Broken Bureaucracy,” a report detailing how thousands of puppies each year are abused in wasteful, misleading, and expensive tests just to satisfy archaic FDA red tape. The report was part of our broader ‘Cut FDA Red Tape’ campaign that’s prompted Congress...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 28 April 2022

Every year, in a process called “appropriations,” Congress sets the budget for federal departments and agencies — determining how much money they will get, and how they are allowed to spend it. Appropriations take a while because it’s hard for Congress to come to an agreement on…well, anything, really. But issues related to taxpayer-funded animal...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 27 April 2022

“Mice Death Cover-Up” at Wuhan Animal Lab For years, we’ve been investigating EcoHealth Alliance, the shady and habitually-lawbreaking “nonprofit” whose dangerous taxpayer-funded animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology may have been responsible for the coronavirus pandemic. Now, Congress is hot on EHA’s trail, too. This Monday (April 25), members of the House Committee...

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