White Coat Waste Project has repeatedly documented how difficult—and often impossible—it is to determine how much taxpayer money is being spent on wasteful and cruel animal experiments. Often, the problem is due to inadequate reporting requirements, and we’ve been working with a bipartisan coalition of Congress members to investigate, audit and remedy this. Other...
Brave whistleblowers have been responsible for exposing rampant waste, fraud and abuse at the Department of Veterans Affairs, including veterans dying while desperately waiting for treatment, falsifying wait time records, and the agency’s plans to throw out 500,000 veterans’ applications for medical care. White Coat Waste Project has recently uncovered evidence of violations of federal animal...
Thanks to a generous in-kind ad grant from the PVBLIC Foundation, to coincide with tax week, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has launched a national ad campaign calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to stop forcing Americans to pay for its cruel and wasteful heart attack studies and other experiments on dogs. As...
Just three weeks after White Coat Waste Project exposed flagrant dog abuse, transparency failures and accountability deficiencies by experimentation laboratories at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, the VA’s Office of Inspector General has confirmed that it, “has opened a case based on a review of the information [WCW] reported to our office.”...
Liberty-loving YouTube sensation Julie Borowski has a new video out just in time for tax day with a call to action: Stop taxpayer funding of animal experiments. Borowski describes how $15 billion a year is wasted by the government to induce heart attacks in dogs, run monkeys on treadmills, breed stuttering mice, force shrimp to...
Pressure from lawmakers is mounting on the Department of Veterans Affairs following White Coat Waste Project’s recent exposé of disclosure deficiencies, accountability failures and laboratory abuses including fatal botched surgeries on dogs at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. During an interview about WCW’s V.A. dog abuse investigation on Full Measure with Sharyl Atkisson, Congressman...
Neighbors of the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia had no idea that inside the facility puppies are forced to run on treadmills until they collapse in painful and deadly heart failure experiments. That’s changed with White Coat Waste Project’s recent national exposé of abuses at McGuire VAMC including fatal botched...
Following White Coat Waste Project’s recent exposé of abuses including fatal botched surgeries on dogs by a “reckless” experimenter at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, the influential Daily Caller determined that the incompetent surgeon may still be performing procedures on veterans. From their exclusive story: Despite internal reports at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA...
A hard-hitting new cover story in the top U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes–which is available at bases around the world–details White Coat Waste Project’s new “Prisoners of Waste” campaign to expose and end abusive and wasteful experiments on dogs at Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) laboratories. The piece chronicles WCW’s bipartisan work to increase transparency...
