Tag: Cats

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Sen. Ernst: NIH spent $1.3M to study cats’ musical preferences

White Coat Waste Project spends every day investigating what the heck the National Institutes of Health (NIH) does with the $15 billion annually that it wastes on ineffective, stupid and often inhumane animal experiments.  It’s not always easy, since even the NIH told WCW that it’s not sure where the money goes! Thankfully, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) is […]

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BREAKING: Senate introduces bill to stop USDA’s tax-funded kitten abuse

UPDATE (4/2/19): Following a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, the USDA announced that its kitten slaughterhouse will close permanently and the 14 surviving cats will be adopted out. Read more. Original post (12/20/18) Kittens locked in secretive and cruel government labs are getting an early Christmas gift. As reported by CNN, Reason, and others, Senator Jeff […]

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BREAKING EXPOSÉ: USDA “Uses Kittens as Test Tubes”

UPDATE (4/2/19): Following a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, the USDA announced that its kitten slaughterhouse will close permanently and the 14 surviving cats will be adopted out. Read more. Original post (05/07/18) The kitten is out of the bag. A new White Coat Waste Project investigation has exposed that for nearly half a […]

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Poll: Most Americans Want Spending Cut for Animal Experiments

  Taxpayer-funded animal experimentation is un-American, and we have the data to prove it. Opinion surveys in recent years show Americans’ growing opposition to animal experimentation, with the most recent Pew poll reporting that a majority of Americans now object to “the use of animals in scientific research.” Now, as reported by Red Alert Politics, a new […]

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WCW in the News: Letters About Sex Lube Experiments on Monkeys, More

The White Coat Waste Project has reached hundreds of thousands of people with recently published letters to the editor about wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. On the heels of the important announcement that Washington University in St. Louis’ medical school is finally ending it’s cruel cat labs in favor of high-tech human simulators, WCW pointed out how Washington University […]