Posted by Arin Greenwood | 08 July 2020

UPDATE December 28, 2020: We did it! Following WCW’s Cut FDA Red Tape campaign and lobbying, Congress included WCW-backed language in the Food and Drug Administration’s 2021 spending bill, which has been signed into law, directing the agency to issue a report on how drug makers can avoid wasteful, slow and costly dog testing mandates in favor...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 06 July 2020

UPDATE December 29, 2020: The VA’s 2021 funding bill has been signed into law! After WCW’s exposé of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disturbing cat experiments—and our ongoing campaign to stop the VA’s abuse of dogs—Congress has renewed its funding prohibition and restrictions on the VA’s dog, cat, and primate testing (see Sec. 247 on page 1236). The...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 02 July 2020

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...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 01 July 2020

The VA’s barbaric, taxpayer-funded dog testing program is wasteful, cruel, secretive, and in need of drastic reform. And it’s not just us saying it—this comes from the National Academies of Sciences. As first reported by the Washington Post and USA Today, today the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) released a comprehensive review of dog testing...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 29 June 2020

About a year ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the most comprehensive plan in U.S. government history to completely end “horrific and inhumane” animal testing exposed by WCW and opposed by a supermajority of taxpayers. This week, the agency took a big step forward by giving us the roadmap for how they’re going to...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 22 June 2020

Here’s a little quiz for you. Do drug companies do slow, painful, inaccurate, and expensive tests on thousands of puppies and other dogs because: (a) they think this is the best way to get safe medications to the people who need them, or (b) government bureaucrats force them to. The correct answer is (b)…but don’t...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 18 June 2020

The federal government’s approval process for new drugs is broken, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is to blame. FDA bureaucracy is obstructing medical innovation and costing drug companies billions of dollars by forcing them to torture and kill puppies in slow, unnecessary, expensive, and misleading tests.Now, WCW, the Consumer Choice Center, and Vanda...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 16 June 2020

Last month, we sued the Department of Justice over its “live tissue training” exercises—for which your tax dollars are spent to stab, shoot, burn, and dismember live animals Now a brand new poll shows most Americans are on our side. The June 2020 national survey of 1,000 taxpayers finds that 63 percent support White Coat...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 15 June 2020

UPDATE, July 24, 2020: Exciting news! Yesterday the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, with WCW-backed COST Act language in it. We’ll keep you posted as the bill makes its way through the legislative process. Original post: Despite what Lysol advertisements may tell you, nothing disinfects like sunlight. To this...

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