Tag: Dogs

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Navy Vet to Sen. Thom Tillis: Help end VA dog experiments

In a new op-ed in The News & Observer–the second largest paper in North Carolina–a NC-based Navy veteran criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and some veterans organizations for defending the VA’s wasteful and cruel dog experiments.  She also calls on U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)–a dog-lover who serves on the Senate Veterans Affairs […]

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POLL: Most Veterans Want VA to Cut Painful Dog Experiments

  WCW is working with countless veterans and active duty service members who are supporting the PUPPERS Act and the associated campaign to cut wasteful taxpayer spending for the most painful dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These American heroes are frustrated that the VA is squandering scarce resources on needless dog […]

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Combat-wounded USMC vet Joey Jones: VA should end shameful dog tests

  Johnny “Joey” Jones–a retired Marine Corps staff sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bomb technician and lost both of his legs during his final deployment–is the latest veteran to speak out against the Department of Veterans Affairs’ wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded dog experiments.  The Fox News analyst and wounded warrior penned an […]

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Navy doc in USA Today: VA doesn’t need to experiment on dogs

  In a new letter featured in USA Today, retired U.S. Navy physician Rear Admiral Marion Balsam writes that based on her quarter-century of treating troops and their families–including as the Commander of Naval Medical Center-Portsmouth and other medical facilities–the VA’s experiments on dogs are wasteful and unlikely to help veterans. Former Navy physician: The VA […]

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Cleveland VA Killed “Friendly” Dogs in Experiments, Misled Press

  In April, WCW launched a billboard campaign to expose how the Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cleveland, OH is one of only three VA facilities still conducting painful taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs.  Now, documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that from March 2016 through March 2017 […]

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VA Whistleblower Lobbies Congress to End Dog Experiments

  This summer, a brave whistleblower from inside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility in Richmond, Virginia that does the agency’s most painful dog experiments came forward with disturbing photographs and other information about waste and abuse.   Now, 20-year Army veteran Todd Woessner is taking his fight to Capitol Hill. After meeting with Congressman […]

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Purple Heart recipient Rep. Brian Mast: End VA dog experiments

  Florida Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL)–a combat-wounded Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient–is a hero for Americans and dogs.  He has been leading the charge to end wasteful and painful dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including by helping introduce the bipartisan PUPPERS Act to permanently defund these experiments, and cosponsoring a related […]

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3 Big Lies VA Told on TV About Its Painful Dog Experiments

  Days after Congress voted unanimously to defund the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful and wasteful dog experiments, the VA put its head of animal experimentation on TV to do damage control.  In his desperate attempt to deflect mounting criticism, the VA’s top animal testing official categorically denied some of the most well-documented and […]

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VIDEO: WCW on Full Measure with Sharyl Atkisson

  Thanks to Sharyl Atkisson and her nationally-syndicated weekly news program Full Measure, 43 million households watching 162 TV stations now know about White Coat Waste Project’s campaign to end taxpayer-funded dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Watch the Full Measure clip below: