Last year, we exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs’ lab in Cleveland was abusing kittens in cruel and wasteful constipation experiments. Now, following a WCW campaign and pressure from Congress, the VA has cut the crap and shut down this waste and abuse! As we uncovered, the VA was purchasing healthy kittens, performing invasive […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded animal experiments in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Back in June, we reported how—following WCW’s grassroots campaigning and lobbying—the VA released its plan to phase-out experiments on dogs, cats and primates by 2025. This is the […]
Back in 2019, WCW got the USDA to retire and release the feline survivors of its $22 million “Kitten Slaughterhouse” lab. This was the first time we know of that the USDA retired survivors after experiments ended, and we want to ensure that it’s not the last. So, earlier this year, Congress passed WCW-backed legislation […]
UPDATE (7/29/21): This legislation has been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits action by the Senate. Original post Following WCW’s years-long campaign, a key U.S. House funding panel has just voted to completely defund ALL painful dog and cat testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This major move forward comes after […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies and kittens in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Thanks to our investigations, lobbying and advocacy from our 3 million members, we’ve successfully exposed and shut down cruel VA dog and cat labs—including the […]
The Tale of Two Lab Kittens: The One We Saved, the One We Didn’t, and Why It’s Historic This op-ed was originally published by Sentient Media on May 13, 2021. This is a tale of two cats, Petite and Sif. As kittens, they were sold by the same “kitten mill” to the United States government […]
There’s been an earthquake in Los Angeles. And it’s the BIG ONE. After years of WCW pressure—and just days after WCW’s lawsuit exposed the VA’s wasteful and painful asphyxiation and de-braining experiments—CBS News has confirmed that we ENDED all taxpayer-funded kitten experiments at the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs lab! This announcement follows years of […]
The Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center wasted your money to abuse and kill cats. And they tried to keep it a secret. Well we think you have a right to know who’s paying the bills for animal experiments… and who’s cashing the checks. Guess what: So does the Freedom of Information Act. When the […]
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 […]
Last week, following a WCW campaign, over 20 Members of Congress introduced the Cat Abuse in Testing Stops (CATS) Act to permanently defund the Department of Veterans Affairs’ sickening experiments on cats and kittens. It’s got some serious bipartisan support: A new poll finds that a supermajority of taxpayers want the VA to stop wasting […]
