Overview
White Coat Waste is a bipartisan government watchdog representing 3 million taxpayers and pet owners. Our mission? To expose and close the U.S. government’s $20 billion animal testing business. Our strategy? Stop the money. Stop the madness!
Join the fight: because taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for wasteful government animal experiments.
Our Strategy
We use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to make the white coats turn over receipts. We sue when they refuse. Whistleblowers tip us off about wasteful government spending.
We publicize our investigations through the media. We run hard-hitting advertising campaigns.
We rally our grassroots army. We unite Democratic and Republican lawmakers to cut the purse strings. We shut down labs. We win big. From “FOIA to freedom,” we retire survivors as pets.
What They Are Saying
As much of the United States entered COVID lockdowns in April 2020, a tiny group that campaigns against federal funding for animal experiments spotted an opportunity. WCW sprung into action, persuading DailyMail to run a story saying the US government had funded the [Wuhan] lab. Then all hell broke loose.Buzzfeed
More than any other group, it is WCW that has elevated the cause of stopping these horrific government experimentations on dogs and puppies into the mainstream political conversation.Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize Winner
GOP Lawmakers, Biden Come Together on Cats…funding for the Russian labs was discontinued. For the lawmakers and the White Coat Waste Project—not to mention the cats—that felt like a win.The Bulwark
White Coat Waste Project is not a traditional animal advocacy organization, but one focused on what it says is government waste on testing — the kind of issue that could appeal to both fiscal conservatives and animal rights activists.Washington Post
Not a single federal primate lab was closed by an establishment animal rights group during either the Trump or Biden administrations. White Coat Waste Project, which focuses on taxpayer spending, closed down three.TimCast
Thanks to the White Coat Waste Project for helping to expose the Wuhan Lab.Senator Rand Paul
The White Coat Waste Project, with the help of Collins and other lawmakers, has prompted the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health to create retirement policies for lab animals.NPR
WCW was the first to expose the money flow between EcoHealth and the Wuhan laboratories, with a strong campaign run by its President Anthony Bellotti and Deputy Justin Goodman.Sharri Markson, What Really Happened in Wuhan