Last year, we exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs’ lab in Cleveland was abusing kittens in cruel and wasteful constipation experiments. Now, following a WCW campaign and pressure from Congress, the VA has cut the crap and shut down this waste and abuse! As we uncovered, the VA was purchasing healthy kittens, performing invasive […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded animal experiments in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Back in June, we reported how—following WCW’s grassroots campaigning and lobbying—the VA released its plan to phase-out experiments on dogs, cats and primates by 2025. This is the […]
UPDATE (7/29/21): This legislation has been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits action by the Senate. Original post Following WCW’s years-long campaign, a key U.S. House funding panel has just voted to completely defund ALL painful dog and cat testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This major move forward comes after […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies and kittens in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Thanks to our investigations, lobbying and advocacy from our 3 million members, we’ve successfully exposed and shut down cruel VA dog and cat labs—including the […]
White Coat Waste Project (WCW) just shut down the sickening kitten mutilation lab at the Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Now we’re coming for one that might be even worse. It’s a secret lab funded by the Louisville VA Medical Center, where documents obtained by WCW show how white coats are doing things […]
There’s been an earthquake in Los Angeles. And it’s the BIG ONE. After years of WCW pressure—and just days after WCW’s lawsuit exposed the VA’s wasteful and painful asphyxiation and de-braining experiments—CBS News has confirmed that we ENDED all taxpayer-funded kitten experiments at the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs lab! This announcement follows years of […]
The Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center wasted your money to abuse and kill cats. And they tried to keep it a secret. Well we think you have a right to know who’s paying the bills for animal experiments… and who’s cashing the checks. Guess what: So does the Freedom of Information Act. When the […]
There is no denying that 2020 has been *a year*. But you know what? While so much of 2020 has been a ???? show—our small and scrappy organization still got a ????-ton accomplished! This year, White Coat Waste Project defunded and defeated more government labs than any other organization… and we did it with fewer […]
Festivus is back! And with it, our most beloved Seinfeld-themed holiday traditions: Getting the pole from the crawl space, and Waste Warrior Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) annual skewering of wasteful government spending. ????Kudos to waste warrior Sen. @RandPaul on his #Festivus Report! His annual roadmap of reckless spending exposes ???????????? $36M to turn mice’s hair […]
Last week, following a WCW campaign, over 20 Members of Congress introduced the Cat Abuse in Testing Stops (CATS) Act to permanently defund the Department of Veterans Affairs’ sickening experiments on cats and kittens. It’s got some serious bipartisan support: A new poll finds that a supermajority of taxpayers want the VA to stop wasting […]
