White Coat Waste Project, an organization that seeks to end live animal experiments, announced that Department of Veterans Affairs researcher Dr. Alex Tan will not use live dogs in a taxpayer-funded experiment after pressure from animal rights groups. —Stars and Stripes, October 30, 2026 In 2022, White Coat Waste’s (WCW) successful campaign shut down the […]
Earlier this month, White Coat Waste released its MAHA Betrayed report documenting how HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has overseen more than $225 million in new dog and cat lab spending by the National Institutes of Health during this Trump administration. This week, WCW also released new shipping records obtained through the Freedom of […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) has spent years exposing the commercial breeding industry supplying dogs and cats to taxpayer-funded laboratories, including the now-defunct Envigo beagle mill and Ridglan Farms. Yet for decades, one company has consistently remained at the center of the pet-to-lab pipeline: Marshall BioResources (Marshall Farms), the nation’s largest commercial breeder of dogs and cats for experimentation, which currently confines more than 15,000 dogs and 1,100 […]
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 direct response to White Coat Waste’s investigation and campaign, the University of Washington has confirmed it ended deadly muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs! WCW’s investigation uncovered a decades-old National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) colony at UW that intentionally breeds dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy and kills them in barbaric experiments. Videos and […]
Following years of White Coat Waste (WCW) campaigns, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially recommitted to meeting its 2035 deadline to phase out all testing on dogs, rabbits, and other mammals. Today, WCW spoke at an event alongside Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and former Trump EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to announce the […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) has launched a new “WTF RFK?” billboard near Wisconsin’s disgraced Ridglan Farms, targeting RFK Jr. for renewing and extending Fauci-era funding for deadly Ridglan beagle experiments. First uncovered by WCW in 2023, ongoing National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments involve gluing tick-filled capsules to Ridglan puppies’ bare skin and intentionally […]
White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has uncovered how Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has doled out $3.9 million in new tax funding to extend deadly dog tests at Vanderbilt University until 2031. Records obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that this lab forces dozens […]
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 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 […]
