Posted by Justin Goodman | 08 November 2017

The list of veterans and veterans’ organizations supporting an end to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ wasteful and cruel dog experiments is growing rapidly. MVA Executive Director Commander John Wells (Ret.) with VA Secretary David Shulkin Today, veterans service organization Military-Veterans Advocacy fired off a letter to Congress to express its support for the effort...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 01 November 2017

This morning, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) filed a federal lawsuit against Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cleveland, Ohio for violating the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to release details of what it does to dogs in wasteful and deadly experiments and what it costs. Cleveland.com broke the story. The lawsuit follows...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 31 October 2017

Drilling holes in puppies’ heads and damaging their brains is a nightmare fit for a horror movie, but it’s also just another day in a taxpayer-funded government animal laboratory. You know what else is scary? You’re paying for it. Just in time for Halloween, check out this trio of terrifying tests you’re being tricked into funding:...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 19 October 2017

The Department of Veterans Affairs has had trouble providing evidence that its painful dog experiments–including “maximum pain” heart attack tests on puppies–are helping veterans. Apparently, that’s because they’re not. In a new article published in The Hill, Benjamin Krause–a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran, journalist, attorney, and founder of DisabledVeterans.org–does a deep dive into the VA’s dubious claims that...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 05 October 2017

  Waste warrior Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has once again proven he’s on the taxpayer’s side. Flake just secured another win to reduce wasteful spending, this time shepherding an amendment as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to include price tags for their research projects in...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 05 October 2017

  Photos taken by a whistleblower inside the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s dog experimentation laboratory   White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has just exposed that Virginians have been paying twice—through both their federal and state taxes—for the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s (VAMC) cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs that have been cited for egregious...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 04 October 2017

  Following a WCW exposé documenting that the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center experimented on and killed dogs it told reporters it “adopted out,” the VA is being urged to create a formal policy allowing dogs to be adopted out from its laboratories. In a letter to VA Secretary Shulkin last week, Reps. Ted Lieu...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 26 September 2017

UPDATE (1/26/18): The FDA announced it is permanently ending its nicotine addiction experiment and sending dozens of monkeys involved in the study to a sanctuary. Read more. Following a lawsuit filed by White Coat Waste Project, messages from thousands of WCW supporters and a plea from world-renowned primate expert Dr. Jane Goodall, the FDA has suspended...