As White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has documented, the Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is one of the last VA facilities in the country still conducting painful taxpayer-funded dog experiments. Now, Fox 8 News is reporting that these wasteful tests have been halted. The move follows WCW’s ongoing campaign and recent exposé showing that...
UPDATE (12/17/19): This bill was signed into law in December 2019 and the FDA’s plan to reduce primate testing and retirement primates to sanctuaries is due to Congress within 12 months. ORIGINAL POST (5/7/19) Last year, WCW ended wasteful $5.5 million nicotine addiction experiments on monkeys at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now, thanks...
Over 1.1 million White Coat Waste Project (WCW) advocates have spoken up for our #GiveThemBack campaign and Congress listened! Proud to introduce the AFTER Act yesterday. All animals who suffer through government testing deserve a loving home, not a death sentence.https://t.co/jv5JwpmQrM — Rep. Brendan Boyle (@CongBoyle) May 23, 2019 As first reported by CNN, Reps....
It’s tax season, and CBS News is reporting, “Tax refunds so far this year are down by $6 billion from 2018.” Taxpayers have a right to know how their missing refunds are instead being spent by Uncle Sam, and White Coat Waste Project’s new ad campaign aims to do just that. WCW billboard running near...
Following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to shut down its kitten slaughterhouse and adopt out the survivors after a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, lawmakers across the political spectrum took to social media to celebrate the decision. “Under no circumstances should your tax dollars be used to fund cruel, painful experiments on cats...
Following an intensive year-long White Coat Waste Project (WCW) campaign, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has just announced it is ending all cat experiments and adopting out the 14 cats remaining at its laboratory. The news comes just two weeks after WCW released its report exposing the USDA’s kitten cannibalism experiments using cats and dogs purchased...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to receive more puppies to abuse and kill in taxpayer-funded experiments. According to VA documents obtained by White Coat Waste Project through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a shipment of three hound puppies as young as 9 months old is set to be delivered to the...
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle want taxpayer-funded primate experiments suspended at a notorious U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory. Moby, a squirrel monkey released from an FDA lab in 2018 following a successful WCW campaign As reported by POLITICO, the New York Times, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Congressmen Brendan Boyle (D-PA) and Matt Gaetz...
UPDATE (4/2/19): Following a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, the USDA announced that its kitten slaughterhouse will close permanently and the 14 surviving cats will be adopted out. Read more. Original post (03/22/19) Following White Coat Waste Project’s new exposé of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s taxpayer-funded kitten cannibalism experiments, federal lawmakers from both...
