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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
