A white coat.
This is an update on our campaign to Stop Kitten Experiments at the Dept. of
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Taxpayer –
Enclosed is our recent op-ed in One Green Planet about how YOU and White Coat
Waste Project (WCW) are ending ALL painful kitten experiments inside the U.S.
government.
Thanks to the advocacy and donations of thousands of WCW supporters like you,
the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the only federal agency left that’s still
conducting painful experiments on kittens.
We’ve already shut down the Los Angeles VA’s de-braining experiments on cats and
the Cleveland VA’s deadly “catstipation” experiments.
We also closed the fed’s largest cat lab: USDA's Kitten Slaughterhouse.
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And with your continued support Taxpayer, we’ll put
government kitten testing in the litter box of history!
Taxpayers deserve to know how the VA is wasting our $$$, so I hope you’ll take a
moment to read our op-ed below.
Devin Murphy
Public Policy & Communications Manager
White Coat Waste Project
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End Taxpayer-Funded Kitten Torture at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
By White Coat Waste Project
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What’s the difference between torture and research? A white coat.
Wasteful Zombie Kitten Experiments
Following recent campaign victories by White Coat Waste Project (WCW), the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the last federal agency still performing
painful experiments on cats and kittens. Its taxpayer-funded “research” at the
Louisville VA—one of only two VA cat labs—is the stuff of nightmares, but it’s
closer than ever to ending.
Documents obtained by WCW
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kittens’ spines to disable them. After the kittens are maimed, they are forced
to run on treadmills and through obstacle courses. Then the “zombie” experiments
begin: parts of the cats’ brains are removed, and their brain stems are severed.
While the kittens are unable to respond, experimenters maim their legs, and
before they have a chance to "recover," they are forced to run on treadmills yet
again. Then, they are finally killed.
VA white coats in Louisville even kill the "control" kittens, healthy cats who
do not undergo any painful experiments. There is no rationale for killing the
controls; it is simply a waste of life — and at $881 apiece, a waste of taxpayer
money, too. Up to 80 kittens are slated to undergo this taxpayer-funded torture.
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If the previous paragraph was hard to read, we’re sorry…but only a little.
Taxpayers should know how our money is being spent (or misspent, as the case may
be). As a federal agency, VA experiments are paid for with your tax dollars.
Is this how you want your money spent?
Fighting against Treadmill Torture. Fighting for Taxpayers and Transparency.
Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, details about experiments at the VA are hard
to find. WCW fights tooth and nail for details of taxpayer-funded animal
experiments across the federal government, including at the VA. We use Freedom
of Information Act requests, and when federal departments and agencies try to
hide records or slow-walk their release, we sue, and we win.
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Last year, following WCW exposés and an onslaught of public criticism, the Los Angeles VA
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Most significantly, our exposés of barbaric animal tests at VA facilities
nationwide helped inspire Congress to enact a phase-out for experimentation on
dogs, cats, and primates at the Department of Veterans Affairs, with very
limited exceptions, by 2025. To date, WCW’s efforts have cut the VA’s dog testing by nearly 80 percent.
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Looming Deadline for Deadly Kitten Tests
While the VA’s 2025 deadline to cut cat testing is admirable, there is an
opportunity right now to end a huge amount of government waste and
taxpayer-funded cruelty to cats even sooner than that. Funding for the cruel and
wasteful kitten experiments at the Louisville VA is due to expire in March 2022.
It must not be renewed — because when the money stops, the killing stops.
Over a million tax dollars have already been wasted on these abhorrent kitten
tests. Enough is enough.
Join White Coat Waste Project and sign this petition to demand Congress to
defund the VA’s wasteful and deadly kitten experiments!
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[[link removed]] To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $20 billion+ in
wasteful government spending.
We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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