White Coat Waste’s (WCW) MAHA Betrayed investigation exposed more than $225 million in new NIH spending on dog and cat experiments since Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office, despite promises to reduce animal testing and phase out pet experiments. Now, records obtained by WCW through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to […]
The [HHS] website falsely touts this termination of research by Harvard Medical School neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone — The Daily Caller, September 23, 2026 Timeline April 17, 2025: NIH awards a new 5-year grant to Livingstone for primate brain experiments and disburses $576,474 (Payout #R01EY036839). May 2025: NIH terminates hundreds of Harvard grants, including some of […]
White Coat Waste Project, an organization that seeks to end live animal experiments, announced that Department of Veterans Affairs researcher Dr. Alex Tan will not use live dogs in a taxpayer-funded experiment after pressure from animal rights groups. —Stars and Stripes, October 30, 2026 In 2022, White Coat Waste’s (WCW) successful campaign shut down the […]
The Pentagon cut the cash. Why is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) still bankrolling Pitt’s cat abuse? Records obtained through White Coat Waste’s (WCW) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigations reveal how NIH-funded white coats at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) plan to cripple cats, damage their nerves, irritate their bladders with acid, and […]
For years, White Coat Waste has exposed how taxpayer-funded laboratories waste billions annually on painful and deadly experiments on dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals who are commonly considered household pets. Now, through a first-of-its-kind analysis of Freedom of Information Act documents, state public records, federal spending databases, journal articles, and other sources, WCW’s new […]
New records obtained by White Coat Waste (WCW) expose another source of monkey victims for experiments at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) notorious “Wuhan West” animal laboratory. A two-page Wisconsin Interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection shows that on April 28, 2026, eight male rhesus macaques, two to eight years old, were to be shipped […]
Every cat deserves someone who knows their meow, their favorite sleeping spot, and how to make them feel safe. For cats sold to laboratories, a life may be recorded as a purchase date, an ID number, a list of procedures, and a final entry. White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations trace these individual lives from Marshall […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department funneled nearly $800,000 into a research project tied to a Russian lab at the center of a chilling plague mystery. Federal records obtained by the watchdog group White Coat Waste show that the latest grants landed just weeks ago, just before the death of a worker at the Siberian facility […]
Earlier this month, White Coat Waste released its MAHA Betrayed report documenting how HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has overseen more than $225 million in new dog and cat lab spending by the National Institutes of Health during this Trump administration. This week, WCW also released new shipping records obtained through the Freedom of […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) is exposing another shadowy supplier fueling cruel and wasteful government animal experiments. Records uncovered by WCW show that Clinvet — a research facility and Class B dealer, with ties to notorious lab-animal dealer Marshall BioResources — has donated dozens of cats to taxpayer-funded laboratories conducting painful and deadly virus experiments. A […]
