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 […]
We have some big news for you in our fight to cut FDA red tape: Following our campaign and an outpouring of support from our grassroots taxpayer advocates, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has just introduced WCW-backed legislation to give drug companies the freedom to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s cruel, pointless, expensive, and […]
As you know, it’s going to be a while longer before we know the winner of the 2020 presidential election. (Our crystal ball’s in the shop, too, alas.) But we can tell you with 100 percent assurance that regardless of who’s in the White House come January 20, 2021, taxpayers of all stripes have one […]
???? More than 110,000 White Coat Waste Project supporters so far have signed our petition demanding the Food and Drug Administration abolish its wasteful and cruel dog testing mandate! And in July, powerful Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a strongly worded letter to the FDA, writing that getting rid of the […]
National Dog Day is our favorite howladay here at WCW. This year, we are thrilled the spotlight’s on the incredible efforts from both sides of the aisle to end taxpayer-funded, and government-mandated, dog experiments. In The Hill, philanthropist and WCW board adviser Louise Linton wrote a great op-ed recognizing and cheering bipawtisan efforts to cut […]
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 […]
White Coat Waste Project has filed a lawsuit against the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia for unlawfully withholding critical information related to its deadly and wasteful experiments on puppies, which have been widely criticized by Congress and taxpayers. The story first broke in The Daily Caller. In January 2017, WCW requested information […]
Neighbors of the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia had no idea that inside the facility puppies are forced to run on treadmills until they collapse in painful and deadly heart failure experiments. That’s changed with White Coat Waste Project’s recent national exposé of abuses at McGuire VAMC including fatal botched […]
Following White Coat Waste Project’s recent exposé of abuses including fatal botched surgeries on dogs by a “reckless” experimenter at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, the influential Daily Caller determined that the incompetent surgeon may still be performing procedures on veterans. From their exclusive story: Despite internal reports at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA […]
A hard-hitting new cover story in the top U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes–which is available at bases around the world–details White Coat Waste Project’s new “Prisoners of Waste” campaign to expose and end abusive and wasteful experiments on dogs at Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) laboratories. The piece chronicles WCW’s bipartisan work to increase transparency […]
