UPDATE (6/23/26): After being included in the Farm Bill that passed the House in April, WCW-backed language defunding animal labs in China, Russia, and other adversarial nations has been included in the Senate version of the bill that will likely be voted on in July. Senate Farm Bill Defunds USDA Animal Labs in China, Russia, […]
In 2019, White Coat Waste’s (WCW) blockbuster investigation and campaign shut down the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s infamous Kitten Slaughterhouse, the government’s largest cat laboratory. Now, our latest exposé reveals that those wasteful kitten tests were quietly relocated to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab run by Dr. Fauci, where they continue under […]
White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has exposed yet another example of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) misleading American taxpayers about funding deadly pet testing. Videos and other records obtained through a WCW lawsuit and investigation have uncovered how the NIH is still bankrolling a University of Florida (UF) lab approved to abuse […]
To coincide with Tax Week, White Coat Waste (WCW) has launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs. Our investigations have exposed how, under RFK, Jr., the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed and extended millions in funding for wasteful, […]
White Coat Waste is supporting an Alabama Open Records Act lawsuit by an Auburn University alum to force the school to release documents detailing its National Institutes of Health-funded kitten breeding and experimentation laboratory. WCW’s investigation, first launched in 2023, exposed how Auburn University breeds sick kittens to suffer from debilitating and deadly diseases, […]
White Coat Waste is leading efforts with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to pass bipartisan legislation to retire animals from federal labs. The newly reintroduced Violet’s Law, named after a hound rescued by WCW from a taxpayer-funded lab, would require all federal agencies to enact policies […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that the taxpayer-funded University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) torments cats in barbaric experiments, and even egregiously obtained cats from an animal shelter to abuse as blood donors by draining dangerous amounts of blood. New records obtained by WCW expose National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at […]
Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments. Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, WCW recently followed the NIH money to Canadian cat labs at the University of Sherbrooke and […]
White Coat Waste’s (WCW) new Kittengate investigation series has uncovered that National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) experimenters plan to abuse 60 kittens in a deadly lab at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Documents WCW obtained through state and federal open records requests reveal that kittens as young as two months old will have holes […]
