Tag: Dogs

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Lara Trump joins fight to “to close the chapter on cruel and ineffective VA dog testing”

Lara Trump’s new cause: Stop experiments on dogs at the VA https://t.co/ATyBM4ieeb pic.twitter.com/NKKgbGx5K2 — Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 13, 2019 Dogs locked in taxpayer-funded government testing labs have it rough, but thankfully they have friends in high places speaking up for them. President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump–a passionate advocate for the welfare of […]

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UPDATE: VA Inspector General probes suspicious VA dog testing approvals

Following a bipartisan request from military veterans Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV), the VA Inspector General has initiated an investigation of the agency’s suspicious “approval” in early 2018 for continued wasteful and cruel dog testing following a defund and restrictions enacted by Congress and the President. […]

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Former VA Secretary, veterans & lawmakers slam VA dog testing

Following a USA Today cover story about White Coat Waste Project’s campaign to end the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) dog experimentation–and VA’s questionable decision to continue several wasteful and cruel projects–influential figures are speaking out to criticize the VA’s waste abuse. Former VA Secretary David Shulkin tweeted out that he opposes VA’s dog testing: Thank […]

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USA Today: Defiant VA demands tax money for puppy tests as WCW scores major reforms

In just 18 months, White Coat Waste Project’s campaign to end painful taxpayer-funded dog experimentation at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made historic progress. Congress has twice enacted legislation restricting VA’s dog testing. Virginia enacted the nation’s first state law banning spending on “maximum pain” dog and cat experiments. The VA implemented the federal government’s first […]

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WCW WIN: Congress & POTUS extend VA dog testing defund

UPDATE (9/21/18): President Trump signed this legislation into law. Congress votes to extend restrictions on deadly dog research https://t.co/5MZgqyvaYt pic.twitter.com/0fRbeeGRM6 — 8News WRIC Richmond (@8NEWS) September 20, 2018 As a cosponsor of the bipartisan #PUPPERS Act, I’m proud Congress has once again voted to cut funding for unnecessary & painful testing on #dogs at the #VA. This […]

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Notorious VA lab spent $42K on puppies days after defund vote

In March of this year–following advocacy by White Coat Waste Project, Congress and veterans–President Trump signed historic legislation defunding for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful and wasteful dog experimentation. Now, WCW has uncovered that days after the defund was signed into law, the notorious Cleveland VA Medical Center spent $42,721 of taxpayers’ money to pre-order […]

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WCW TV Ads Hit Home of VA’s Most Painful Dog Lab

Starting on Veterans Day, our national TV ad campaign exposing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful and wasteful dog experiments has hit Washington, D.C., Cleveland and Milwaukee. Now, the ads are storming the airwaves in Richmond, Virginia, home of the VA’s most horrific dog laboratories where puppies are subjected to “maximum pain” heart attack experiments. […]

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Virginia lawmakers probe State’s funding of abusive VA dog tests

    White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has just exposed that Virginians have been paying twice—through both their federal and state taxes—for the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s (VAMC) cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs that have been cited for egregious abuses, exposed by whistleblowers, slammed by veterans, and voted against by U.S. Congress. WCW’s ongoing public records […]

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Congress, SPCA Urge VA to Adopt Out Lab Dogs

  Following a WCW exposé documenting that the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center experimented on and killed dogs it told reporters it “adopted out,” the VA is being urged to create a formal policy allowing dogs to be adopted out from its laboratories. In a letter to VA Secretary Shulkin last week, Reps. Ted Lieu […]