You and I are fighting to save the “Stokes 7” at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) and to close the VA’s entire kitten testing program. I think we could win, Taxpayer. Here’s why.

Over the better part of the last generation, the big establishment groups have shut down a grand total of ZERO government dog labs—a miserable failure.

But we recently zeroed out every single painful puppy lab across the VA—a smashing success!

No other organization has closed a federal dog lab in nearly 20 years. And no other group has closed a government cat lab in at least 40 years!

White Coat Waste is a Project to get the U.S. government out of the dog and animal testing business (more below). To finish the job, please demand Congress pass this bill: 

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HISTORIC VICTORY: VA ENDS LAST ACTIVE DOG TESTS FOLLOWING WCW CAMPAIGN

In November 2016—almost exactly six years ago—White Coat Waste Project (WCW) released its first major investigation called “Spending to Death.” In the groundbreaking report, we exposed how government agencies were wasting millions of tax dollars to abuse puppies and dogs in painful and outdated experiments.

We soon launched the first-ever national campaign to defund dog testing at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). We set our sights on the VA because it was experimenting on hundreds of beagles and other dogs at agency labs across the country and was doing the most painful dog tests in the entire federal government.

Since then – with the support of Congress, veterans and whistleblowers – we’ve been steadily knocking out the VA’s deadly (even illegal!) dog labs. WCW shut down the VA’s wasteful spending to inject latex into puppies’ arteries, drill holes into beagles’ skulls, collapse the lungs of “friendly” dogs, cut out living dogs’ hearts, inject Dobermans with methamphetamines, and force hounds to run on treadmills in heart attack tests.

Now, we’ve obtained documents confirming that following WCW’s six years of relentless campaigning, lobbying, lawsuits, and investigations, the VA has ended painful dog experiments at its Richmond, Virginia lab, the agency’s final holdout.

Historic Firsts

WCW’s campaign to shut down VA dog testing has been one of historic firsts, including:

• First time ever that Congress enacted a law defunding dog tests and giving an agency a hard deadline to phase out animal tests (dogs, cats, and primates, specifically)
• First time an agency formally committed to cutting experiments on dogs (as well as cats and primates)
• First state law enacted (in Virginia) defunding maximum pain experiments on dogs and cats
• First time a federal agency enacted a lab animal retirement policy
• First time the National Academy of Sciences criticized a federal agency’s wasteful dog tests as “unnecessary”

WCW Wins Big For Dogs

In 2016, when our effort started, the VA abused nearly 220 dogs in experiments. Now, zero dogs are being tormented in painful and deadly VA testing, and we’re going to work to keep it that way and extend the progress to other federal agencies (hear that, NIH?).

WCW is the only organization to shut down any government dog tests in at least 15 years, and we’ve wiped them out across an entire agency!