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investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada.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 […]
Following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced an amendment to defund the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) painful dog and cat experiments. For years, WCW has exposed how the NSF funds labs that abuse dogs and cats, including inducing strokes in dogs, experimental drug tests involving repeated injections into puppies’ eyeballs, […]
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 […]
