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Dear Taxpayer— you shouldn’t be forced to pay a $1M tax
bill to electrocute small animals, scare them with loud noises, and cut open
4,000 pregnant moms.
Now, thanks to WCW’s winning campaign, you won’t have to.
Your victory is below. I never get tired of winning. Thank you!
You Give. We Win. They Survive.
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BIG WIN >>
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From: White Coat Waste Project
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 6:49 PM
Subject: 4,000 pregnant animals. BOOM!
Taxpayer, you did it.
Thanks to you and our grassroots army, we covered Sunny’s Fund! I’ll keep you
posted on our progress to end government monkey business.
And there’s one more thing…
We just slashed $1M in wasteful spending and saved 4,000 (!!!) pregnant animals. More on that below.
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Victory: How WCW Saved $1M & 4,000 Pregnant Animals From NIH “Womb to Tomb”
Tests
* Big Win: WCW shut down a set of massive NIH experiments, spared 4,000
animals, and saved $1M tax dollars.
* The U.S. government planned to force-feed pregnant animals dong quai—an
herbal supplement used for homemade abortions.
* Small mammals were to be electro-shocked, startled with loud noises,
impregnated, then cut open.
* NIH’s National Toxicology Program called it "womb to tomb.”
* WCW investigators exposed the animal tests, rallied Congress, and stopped
NIH’s wasteful spending.
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White Coat Waste (WCW) is a Project to get the U.S. government out of the animal
testing business. This is the true story of how we stopped its
multi-million-dollar animal testing scheme to experiment with an herbal
supplement marketed for erectile dysfunction and used to induce homemade
abortions.
In 2017, we first uncovered plans
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their babies by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Toxicology
Program (NTP).
The horrendous animal experiments were designed to test an herbal supplement
called dong quai.
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Just one of the many tests planned called for torturing and killing 3,400 small
mammals. The other tests were going to kill hundreds more.
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But, following a three-year WCW campaign, this misguided plan was killed in the
crib. WCW uncovered that NIH white coats planned to spend more than $1 million tax
dollars on stomach-turning experiments that Waste Warrior Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
described, correctly, as “ghoulish and horrifying.”
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In testing that the NTP itself calls "womb to tomb," pregnant animals were going to be force-fed massive doses of dong quai
throughout their pregnancies. The doses were high enough to kill some of the
pregnant mothers or cause miscarriages.
For those who survived, after giving birth, their babies would then be forced to
ingest the chemicals, too.
[{EXTERNAL_URL~[link removed]}] IN THEIR OWN WORDS: HERE’S THE NTP’S ACTUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ANIMAL TESTS
PLANNED FOR DONG QUAI.
The chemical-exposed babies would then be impregnated. Some, in turn, would've
had their fetuses cut out and dissected. Other babies would be allowed to be
born and then electro-shocked, blasted with loud noises, and killed. Seem crazy? See for yourself 👇🏼
WCW INVESTIGATORS UNCOVERED THIS PHOTO IN NIH RECORDS. IT SHOWS A RAT LOCKED IN
WHAT THE NIH CALLS A "STARTLE CHAMBER" THAT BLASTS ANIMALS WITH LOUD SOUNDS IN
ORDER TO OBSERVE THEIR RESPONSE. GOVERNMENT RECORDS DESCRIBE THE PAIN AND
DISTRESS THEY EXPECT TO CAUSE.
NTP writes that the tests can cause animals “convulsions,” “tremors,”
“repetitive circling,” and “bizarre behavior (e.g., biting or excessive licking,
self-mutilation, walking backwards, vocalization).”
Do you think that’s how your hard-earned money should be squandered? No, we
don’t either!
That's why we did our investigation, co-hosted a bipartisan Congressional
briefing, released an investigative report
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And after all this work to find and expose the NTP’s horrific, expensive dong
quai animal tests…
🔥 We. Got. Results. 🔥
WCW discovered that the NTP website no longer listed any pending, current, or
completed animal tests for dong quai! The only listed study was one non-animal test.
Rep. Gaetz inquired with the NTP about WCW’s discovery. In a dramatic shift from
its earlier position, in an October 2020 letter, the NTP’s director wrote to
Rep. Gaetz: “With regard to NTP’s plans for Dong quai, no animal studies are
pre-supposed at this time….”
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Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay $1 million for 4,000 animals to be
electrocuted, startled with loud noises, impregnated, then brutally cut open.
Now, thanks to WCW’s winning campaign, they won’t have to.
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Taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay $20 billion+ for wasteful government animal experiments.
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