Posted by Meg McCarney | 26 September 2025

A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has exposed how, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has doled out over $24 million in new grants to pharmaceutical companies for cruel and wasteful drug tests on dogs. In these barbaric taxpayer-funded tests, pharmaceutical companies are injecting,...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 22 September 2025

  CBS Evening News’ “Eye on America” just featured White Coat Waste’s campaign to defund Monkey Island and other taxpayer-funded animal labs. WCW’s newest investigation exposes how, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund Monkey Island, renew other Fauci-era primate labs, and issue millions...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 16 September 2025

  Less than 24 hours after a new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposed how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still funding disturbing experiments where parts of aborted human fetuses are implanted into lab animals, the agency has stated it will not renew the taxpayer-funded grants.  WCW identified 17 active NIH-funded human fetal...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 10 September 2025

Less than 24 hours after a new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposed how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still funding disturbing experiments where parts of aborted human fetuses are implanted into lab animals, the agency has stated it will not renew the grants. WCW identified 17 active NIH-funded human fetal tissue grants...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 29 August 2025

White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation of transgender animal testing has exposed how active Fauci-era grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and funding from Florida’s Department of Health paid for a new study that created transgender lab monkeys.  In the taxpayer-funded experiment, male monkeys were implanted with pellets that released estrogen to crudely...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 13 August 2025

White Coat Waste has filed four new lawsuits against the National Institutes of Health demanding that it turn over records related to $600 million in recent and active grants and contracts paying for wasteful and inhumane testing on dogs and cats in the US and overseas.  The documents requested by WCW under the Freedom of...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 24 July 2025

A new White Coat Waste investigation exposes a brutal betrayal: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) extended lethal heart failure experiments on kittens—within days of claiming it was “working tirelessly” to phase out dog and cat testing. Exclusive documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that an NIH-funded lab at...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 24 July 2025

  Prompted by White Coat Waste’s (WCW) relentless investigations, grassroots campaigning, and lobbying, over a dozen bipartisan members of Congress have re-introduced the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act to cut ALL funding for the National Institutes of Health’s painful cat and dog experiments worldwide. WCW has uncovered how the NIH, under Director Jay...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 21 July 2025

  Directly following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, lawsuits, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, the Trump Administration and Congress are cutting funding for experiments on dogs, cats, and other animals in labs around the world.  Since 2019, when WCW launched its Worldwide Waste campaign—the first campaign targeting taxpayer funding for foreign animal labs like Dr. Fauci’s...