Our 3 million advocates spoke up—with calls, emails, tweets, letters and petitions—and Congress listened! The 2021 federal spending bill, signed into law on December 27, 2020, includes cost-cutting, life-saving measures that WCW worked throughout the year to secure and that take a big bite out of wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. CUTTING FDA RED TAPE Following […]
UPDATE (3/31/20): The COVID-19 stimulus bill signed into law by President Trump includes bipartisan spending oversight measures advocated by WCW and others, including an independent oversight panel led by Inspectors General and a public website reporting how stimulus funds are being spent. WCW is grateful to Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Gary Peters (D-MI)–the chairman […]
UPDATE (4/17/20): A month after WCW’s exposé, President Trump publicly committed to ending taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Original post (3/24/20)The deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) is quickly spreading throughout the nation and ravaging public health and the global economy. By now, you’ve likely read that the disease has been traced to a so-called […]
In the face of growing pressure from WCW, Congress, media, veterans, and other taxpayers, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a new, expanded effort to curb wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded dog experiments. The VA reports that it has not approved any new dog experiments since last year, and that it is reviewing all ongoing projects with […]
Once a strong defender of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ “maximum pain” experiments on puppies, ABC Richmond reports VA Secretary David Shulkin has now done a much-welcome about-face on the issue. In an interview with The Daily Caller–in response to a question prompted by Roger Stone’s recent op-ed on the topic–Shulkin stated, “I am not a […]
UPDATE (2/21/18): More national veterans groups have come out in support of ending the VA’s painful dog experiments and redirecting resources to more productive programs for veterans. Groups endorsing the campaign include American GI Forum, American Military Retirees Association, AMVETS, DisabledVeterans.org, Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the U.S., Military-Veterans Advocacy, Jewish War Veterans of the USA, […]
Just weeks after White Coat Waste Project exposed how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to force sunscreen companies to conduct unnecessary, expensive and cruel poisoning tests on animals, Congress is taking action. As reported by POLITICO and Chemical & Engineering News, North Carolina Congressman Robert Pittenger (R-NC) is challenging the FDA’s misguided decision in a letter to the […]
As we’ve reported before, the federal government is the driving force behind the overwhelming majority of animal testing in the U.S., even wasteful and cruel cosmetics testing. Now, as covered in Rare, a new study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to force sunscreen companies to perform painful, ineffective, multi-million-dollar […]
Milwaukee’s Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Milwaukee VAMC) is one of only three VA facilities in the U.S. still using your tax dollars for painful and wasteful experiments on dogs that are opposed by most veterans, Congress and 75 percent of Americans. As we exposed earlier this year, the Milwaukee VA procures 6-month-old beagle puppies, drills […]
We’re proud to have the support of national veterans’ groups, veterans serving in Congress, a majority of veterans and their families, the entire House of Representatives, and countless taxpayers who want to end the VA’s wasteful spending on “maximum pain” heart attacks experiments and other abusive tests on dogs. The VA is still resisting because it wants to keep […]
