In a major win for taxpayers and animals, the House of Representatives just passed the 2026 Farm Bill with three bipartisan amendments backed by White Coat Waste (WCW) that cut U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for wasteful, cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and retire animals from government labs. Great news for accountability […]
White Coat Waste is supporting an Alabama Open Records Act lawsuit by an Auburn University alum to force the school to release documents detailing its National Institutes of Health-funded kitten breeding and experimentation laboratory. WCW’s investigation, first launched in 2023, exposed how Auburn University breeds sick kittens to suffer from debilitating and deadly diseases, […]
Back in 2019, WCW got the USDA to retire and release the feline survivors of its $22 million “Kitten Slaughterhouse” lab. This was the first time we know of that the USDA retired survivors after experiments ended, and we want to ensure that it’s not the last. So, earlier this year, Congress passed WCW-backed legislation […]
The Tale of Two Lab Kittens: The One We Saved, the One We Didn’t, and Why It’s Historic This op-ed was originally published by Sentient Media on May 13, 2021. This is a tale of two cats, Petite and Sif. As kittens, they were sold by the same “kitten mill” to the United States government […]
This edition of Waste of the Week, is called BEARLY LEGAL. Take a peek at what your hard-earned money’s been squandered on in this West Coast lab: What in the world are you looking at? Here’s the grizzly deets: Nine captive bears were forced to walk on treadmills in a lab at Washington State […]
UPDATE (4/17/20): A month after WCW’s exposé, President Trump publicly committed to ending taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Original post (3/24/20)The deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) is quickly spreading throughout the nation and ravaging public health and the global economy. By now, you’ve likely read that the disease has been traced to a so-called […]
White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) mission is to find, expose and defund taxpayer-funded animal testing, and journalists are critical to helping us hold the government accountable for this waste and abuse. For its 2019 Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award, the National Press Club recognized the work of Donovan Slack of USA Today and […]
When White Coat Waste Project shut down the USDA’s kitten slaughterhouse earlier this year, the agency committed to adopting out the 14 cats who remained in the shuttered lab. Now, some of the lucky survivors got to meet the lawmakers who helped win their freedom after years locked in a federal laboratory. Last week, as […]
Following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to shut down its kitten slaughterhouse and adopt out the survivors after a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, lawmakers across the political spectrum took to social media to celebrate the decision. “Under no circumstances should your tax dollars be used to fund cruel, painful experiments on cats […]
UPDATE (4/2/19): Following a year-long White Coat Waste Project campaign, the USDA announced that its kitten slaughterhouse will close permanently and the 14 surviving cats will be adopted out. Read more. Original post (03/19/19) Just when you thought the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “kitten slaughterhouse” couldn’t be any more wasteful and abusive, we just dropped […]
