Tag: monkeys

It’s Tax Week! And this edition of Waste of the Week is called WHAT BALLS! Believe it or not, your money was wasted for not one but TWO nutty experiments involving, dismembered human fetuses, irradiated mice, and dissected monkey testicles. First up, some taxpayer-funded white coats extracted testicle cells from monkeys and aborted human fetuses, then implanted the cells into […]

This edition of Waste of the Week is called I SCREAM TOO. In fact we all scream…when we find out that taxpayers footed the bill for white coats to: Drape themselves in leopard-print fabric Then go terrify a bunch of monkeys going about their business in a national park in the Republic of the Congo […]

Little heads up: This edition of Waste of the Week contains some rather racy visuals of monkeys who were used in a Chinese animal lab’s male birth control experiments, and were filmed during some very private moments.  You paid for the experiment, and the visuals. And the people who took your money and took this […]

>Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most wasteful of them all? Here at WCW, we ask ourselves this question *all the freaking time*. So we’ve started a brand new thing… we call it the “Waste of the Week” (W.O.W.)! Washington ends every year with more than $800 billion of its budget unspent, yet begins […]

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 […]

UPDATE December 30, 2020: As a result of our investigation, Congress has directed the NIH to commission an independent study by the National Academies of the NIH’s intramural primate testing and how modern alternatives can reduce their use. This direction is in the NIH’s 2021 funding bill (see page 69). You can read more about […]

UPDATE December 30, 2020: As a result of our investigation, Congress has directed the NIH to commission an independent study by the National Academies of the NIH’s intramural primate testing and how modern alternatives can reduce their use. This direction is in the NIH’s 2021 funding bill (see page 69). You can read more about […]

Last week, the White Coat Waste Project team had the honor of a lifetime attending the ribbon-cutting for the new outdoor habitat that Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary built for the monkeys retired from the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) nicotine addiction lab shut down by WCW. After four years of nicotine studies, 26 male squirrel […]

Taxpayer-funded monkey experimenters don’t want you to know how much of your money they’re wasting to create drunk monkeys and abuse other primates in experiments, but White Coat Waste Project (WCW) isn’t letting them get away with it.   As first reported by the Washington Examiner, WCW has filed a complaint with the National Institutes […]

UPDATE (6/19/19): Following WCW advocacy, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the 2020 NIH spending bill that, among other things, directs the agency to provide a plan for the reduction of its primate testing and the retirement of monkeys. The Senate will consider the legislation this summer. ORIGINAL POST (5/7/19) The National Institutes of […]