AMVETS — one of the nation’s largest and most influential veterans groups representing more than 250,000 veterans — has joined WCW and more than a dozen other veterans’ organizations to denounce the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful dog experiments. In a letter to Congressional leaders with authority over the VA’s budget, AMVETS wrote: “…the VA […]
One million Americans tuned in to this hard-hitting Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) report that features White Coat Waste Project’s campaign to expose and stop the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) wasteful and cruel dog experiments. Pat Robertson, one of the country’s most influential conservatives, denounced the VA’s dog labs saying: “Some of this looks like it’s […]
WCW recently sued the Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio (Cleveland VA) for refusing to release details about its deadly taxpayer-funded experiments on dozens of “friendly,” “shy” and “submissive” dogs, even hound puppies less than a year-old. The lawsuit followed a WCW exposé revealing that the Cleveland VA is one of only three VA facilities still conducting painful […]
We’re proud to have the support of national veterans’ groups, veterans serving in Congress, a majority of veterans and their families, the entire House of Representatives, and countless taxpayers who want to end the VA’s wasteful spending on “maximum pain” heart attacks experiments and other abusive tests on dogs. The VA is still resisting because it wants to keep […]
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 […]
