- A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes Marshall BioResources (aka Marshall Farms)—the nation’s largest commercial breeder of dogs and cats for labs—as a key supplier for cruel taxpayer-funded experiments.
- Marshall confines more than 15,000 dogs and 1,100 cats at its breeding facilities in upstate New York, according to its most recent federal inspections.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records and other documents uncovered by WCW tie dogs and cats from Marshall to ongoing National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments that involve inducing heart failure, obesity, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, decerebration, toxoplasmosis infection, and other painful, ultimately deadly, procedures.
- Marshall has supplied beagles for some of the most disturbing experiments ever exposed by WCW, including Fauci-funded tests that cut the dogs’ vocal cords, infested them with ticks and flies, and force-fed them experimental drugs.
- Just since Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took office in February 2025, the NIH has spent over $175 million in new funding on cat and dog experimentation, including renewing support for many of Fauci’s dog and cat labs that abuse animals from Marshall.
- WCW is working with Congress to cut taxpayer funding to Marshall Farms and all other dog and cat labs and their shady suppliers.
White Coat Waste (WCW) has spent years exposing the commercial breeding industry supplying dogs and cats to taxpayer-funded laboratories, including the now-defunct Envigo beagle mill and Ridglan Farms.
Yet for decades, one company has consistently remained at the center of the pet-to-lab pipeline: Marshall BioResources (Marshall Farms), the nation’s largest commercial breeder of dogs and cats for experimentation, which currently confines more than 15,000 dogs and 1,100 cats at its upstate New York breeding facilities.
This is actual footage from inside Marshall, where a young beagle is being “trained” to wear an inhalation mask for cruel drug testing.
Beginning with WCW’s landmark 2016 Spending to Death investigation, WCW has repeatedly exposed Marshall beagles being purchased for notorious Fauci-funded experiments, including in-house NIH tests in which puppies had capsules filled with infected flies strapped to their bare skin.
In other Fauci-funded tests uncovered by WCW, beagles from Marshall were repeatedly bitten by disease-carrying ticks and flies, and had their vocal cords cut before being poisoned with experimental drugs.
Now, Freedom of Information Act documents, federal spending databases, and other records obtained and analyzed by WCW detail how National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded laboratories across the country are purchasing dogs and cats from Marshall for active taxpayer-funded experiments.
Among the NIH-funded laboratories identified by WCW as purchasing Marshall dogs for active taxpayer-funded experiments are:
- University of Utah, which has received nearly $12 million for heart experiments in which dogs have their arteries tied off and undergo pacemaker implantation and electric shocks before being killed;
- Vanderbilt University, whose dog experimentation program has received more than $109 million over 50 years to feed dogs high-fat, high-fructose diets to induce obesity, diabetes, and liver disease before invasive and deadly testing;
- Drug Delivery Company LLC, which has received more than $2.9 million for experiments in which dogs are implanted with drug delivery devices, dosed with fentanyl, and are ultimately killed;
- SRI International, a for-hire lab which has received approximately $2.5 million for drug testing in which dogs are force-fed experimental drugs before being killed;
- Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which has received nearly $1.5 million for experiments in which dogs undergo heart bypass surgeries before being killed;
- Johns Hopkins University, where more than $17 million in taxpayer funding supports experiments in which dogs are subjected to complete circulatory arrest on a heart-lung machine before neurological testing and brain harvesting; and
- Ohio State University, which has received nearly $6 million for experiments that implant pacemakers to drive dogs’ hearts to 600 beats per minute, causing heart failure before their hearts are removed.
Additionally, FOIA records obtained by WCW indicate Marshall dogs may be supplied for experiments at the University of Cincinnati, where dogs are killed so researchers can harvest their larynxes, and at Case Western Reserve University, where dogs undergo invasive open-chest heart experiments before being killed.
WCW’s investigation also ties Marshall cats to active NIH-funded experiments at:
- NIH’s in-house lab, where kittens are force-fed toxoplasmosis-infected mouse brain tissue;
- Georgia Institute of Technology, where under an NIH grant costing $3.3M, cats have their spinal cords slashed, are then forced to walk on treadmills, and are ultimately killed.
- The University of Missouri–Columbia, which admitted to purchasing four cats from Marshall in October 2025. UMC’s deadly taxpayer-funded cat experiments involve inducing spinal cord injuries, cutting into cats’ skulls, terminal nerve-recording, forced hyperventilation and coughing, and other deadly procedures;
- The Medical College of Wisconsin, where cats are decerebrated, have nerves severed, water pumped through their noses, and are later killed, under a grant costing $1.8 million; and
- The University of Pittsburgh, which has received almost $1.2 million to subject cats to nerve-cutting surgeries, chemical bladder irritation, and in some cases spinal cord injuries before euthanasia.
Marshall’s connection to taxpayer-funded animal testing is nothing new.
For years, WCW has documented Marshall’s role supplying dogs to the NIH’s in-house septic shock laboratory and to painful experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Richmond and Cleveland facilities—all government dog laboratories that were ultimately shut down following WCW investigations and campaigns.
WCW also exposed how Marshall supplied cats to taxpayer-funded laboratories conducting spinal cord injury, eye coil implant, nausea, and heart failure experiments that have since ended.
Marshall is also a major supplier of ferrets for taxpayer-funded experiments, providing animals for cruel binge drinking studies funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs and exposed by WCW and Sen. Rand Paul.
Marshall also supplied ferrets for federally funded experiments involving cigarette smoke-induced COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, and the genetic engineering of ferrets to suffer from cystic fibrosis.
A federal spending database also shows Marshall received over $5 million in direct taxpayer funding from the NIH, VA, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Defense, Small Business Administration, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While the despicable Ridglan and Envigo beagle mills have been shut down, records uncovered by WCW show that taxpayer dollars from the NIH continue to keep Marshall thriving and drive demand for dogs and cats to be abused in cruel and often deadly experiments.
Just since Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took office in February 2025, the NIH has spent over $175 million in new funding on cat and dog experimentation, including renewing support for many of Fauci’s dog and cat labs.
WCW is working to hold RFK accountable and cut off the taxpayer funding that fuels both the laboratories and the commercial breeders supplying them.
Most recently, we worked with Congress to include language slashing funding for dog and cat laboratories in the Fiscal Year 2027 NIH spending bill, which has passed the House Appropriations Committee and now heads to the House floor.
WCW is collaborating with Congressman Nick Langworthy (R-NY), who represents upstate New York, to expose and defund Marshall and other dog and cat suppliers and experimentation labs.
WCW-backed measures to curb dog and cat testing were also included in pending spending bills for the USDA, FDA, and Environmental Protection Agency, while the Farm Bill includes WCW-backed provisions to defund maximum pain experiments on dogs and cats.
As long as companies profit from breeding pets for taxpayer-funded experiments, WCW will keep exposing the pipeline—and working to defund it.
