White Coat Waste Project (WCW) just exposed how the nation’s top taxpayer-funded monkey abusers have been violating a federal law requiring that they publicly disclose the costs of their cruel and wasteful experiments. During its investigation, WCW unearthed a little-known video of the noncompliant primate experiments at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center (NPRC). […]
“[S]tabbing, burning and shooting pigs and goats, and sometimes even dogs….” Is this how you want your money spent? Dem lawmakers criticize training involving “stabbing, burning and shooting” animals https://t.co/mDhSTpvBqs pic.twitter.com/5M7OBZ15qp — The Hill (@thehill) October 26, 2019 White Coat Waste Project recently discovered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Marshals Service […]
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)–a WCW Waste Warrior awardee–made history earlier this year by leading a successful effort with WCW to pass first-ever legislation directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase-out wasteful and painful primate testing that’s opposed by most taxpayers. As that bill works it way to the President, Rep. Roybal-Allard is holding […]
Earlier this year, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Pro-Life San Francisco (PLSF) exposed how the federal government has been wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal testing using human fetal tissue (HFT). Now, a new WCW-PLSF study of National Institutes of Health (NIH) spending data shows the full scale and scope […]
In August, White Coat Waste Project and Pro-Life San Francisco exposed how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been wasting over $100 million annually on wasteful and cruel animal testing using human fetal tissue. Now, an army of influential lawmakers is demanding answers. Republicans demand answers about government experiments with animals and fetal tissue […]
As White Coat Waste Project (WCW) first exposed during tax season in 2017, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Richmond, Virginia lab was the only facility in the entire federal government using tax dollars for excruciatingly painful experiments on dogs without anesthesia. Now, as first reported by WRIC, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information […]
Update: (6/11/2020) If you need more proof that your voice matters, and together we can make a real difference: Following WCW’s efforts and pressure from Congress and the public, last month the NIH formed a multi-agency working group to improve transparency and accountability about the effectiveness of government programs to reduce wasteful animal tests conducted […]
As reported by the Associated Press, Washington Post, Washington Examiner and others, at a signing ceremony this morning with White Coat Waste Project (WCW) as one of the invited speakers, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the most comprehensive plan in U.S. government history to completely end “horrific and inhumane” animal testing exposed by WCW and […]
In his latest Waste Report revealing $50 billion in government boondoggles, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) exposes how the National Science Foundation (NSF) spent a significant portion of a nearly half-million dollar grant on studying frog mating calls. As Sen Paul writes in his report, “Panamanian frog mating calls may sound different in forests and cities, […]
This morning in the Washington Examiner, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Pro-Life San Francisco (PLSF) exposed how tens of millions of tax dollars are being wasted on disturbing human fetal tissue experiments on animals opposed by most Americans. In their bipartisan op-ed, WCW board member Alyssa Canobbio Hackbarth–a Republican–and PLSF president Terrisa Bukovinac–a Democrat–describe […]
