Earlier this year, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Pro-Life San Francisco (PLSF) exposed how the federal government has been wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal testing using human fetal tissue (HFT). Now, a new WCW-PLSF study of National Institutes of Health (NIH) spending data shows the full scale and scope...
In August, White Coat Waste Project and Pro-Life San Francisco exposed how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been wasting over $100 million annually on wasteful and cruel animal testing using human fetal tissue. Now, an army of influential lawmakers is demanding answers. Republicans demand answers about government experiments with animals and fetal tissue...
As White Coat Waste Project (WCW) first exposed during tax season in 2017, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Richmond, Virginia lab was the only facility in the entire federal government using tax dollars for excruciatingly painful experiments on dogs without anesthesia. Now, as first reported by WRIC, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information...
Update: (6/11/2020) If you need more proof that your voice matters, and together we can make a real difference: Following WCW’s efforts and pressure from Congress and the public, last month the NIH formed a multi-agency working group to improve transparency and accountability about the effectiveness of government programs to reduce wasteful animal tests conducted...
As reported by the Associated Press, Washington Post, Washington Examiner and others, at a signing ceremony this morning with White Coat Waste Project (WCW) as one of the invited speakers, 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...
In his latest Waste Report revealing $50 billion in government boondoggles, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) exposes how the National Science Foundation (NSF) spent a significant portion of a nearly half-million dollar grant on studying frog mating calls. As Sen Paul writes in his report, “Panamanian frog mating calls may sound different in forests and cities,...
White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) mission is to find, expose and defund taxpayer-funded animal testing, and journalists are critical to helping us hold the government accountable for this waste and abuse. Donovan Slack of USA Today and Scott Taylor of WJLA ABC 7 For its 2019 Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award, the National...
Congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) wants to know why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has dramatically increased painful and wasteful taxpayer-funded tests on rabbits when, as he writes, other government researchers have stated, “animal models have limited relevance to humans and poorly predict effects in humans.” In a letter sent today to DHS, Rep....
This morning in the Washington Examiner, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Pro-Life San Francisco (PLSF) exposed how tens of millions of tax dollars are being wasted on disturbing human fetal tissue experiments on animals opposed by most Americans. In their bipartisan op-ed, WCW board member Alyssa Canobbio Hackbarth–a Republican–and PLSF president Terrisa Bukovinac–a Democrat–describe...
