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...
In a new op-ed in The News & Observer–the second largest paper in North Carolina–a NC-based Navy veteran criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and some veterans organizations for defending the VA’s wasteful and cruel dog experiments. She also calls on U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)–a dog-lover who serves on the Senate Veterans...
WCW is working with countless veterans and active duty service members who are supporting the PUPPERS Act and the associated campaign to cut wasteful taxpayer spending for the most painful dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These American heroes are frustrated that the VA is squandering scarce resources on needless dog...
Johnny “Joey” Jones–a retired Marine Corps staff sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bomb technician and lost both of his legs during his final deployment–is the latest veteran to speak out against the Department of Veterans Affairs’ wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded dog experiments. The Fox News analyst and wounded warrior penned an...
In a new letter featured in USA Today, retired U.S. Navy physician Rear Admiral Marion Balsam writes that based on her quarter-century of treating troops and their families–including as the Commander of Naval Medical Center-Portsmouth and other medical facilities–the VA’s experiments on dogs are wasteful and unlikely to help veterans. Read the full letter below,...
In April, WCW launched a billboard campaign to expose how the Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cleveland, OH is one of only three VA facilities still conducting painful taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs. Now, documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that from March 2016 through March 2017...
This summer, a brave whistleblower from inside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility in Richmond, Virginia that does the agency’s most painful dog experiments came forward with disturbing photographs and other information about waste and abuse. VA dog lab whistleblower Todd Woessner and WCW VP Justin Goodman with WCW’s canine ambassador Griffin ...
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. On the heels of WCW’s new lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for refusing to release videos and other documents detailing to the agency’s secretive taxpayer-funded nicotine addiction experiments on...
