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Taxpayer, I’ve been wondering about the Bidens:
* We know Jill and Joe Biden rescued a cat named Willow. That’s good.
* We also know that, following a WCW campaign, President Biden cut all NIH
payouts to Putin’s kitten lab in Russia. Very good!
So, why isn’t Biden doing anything to save seven kittens… right here, inside his own U.S. federal government lab?!?
Because he just isn’t hearing from anyone about it. Unfortunately, very few folks signed our new petition.
Taxpayer, Biden probably thinks you support more cat
testing at the VA’s Stokes lab!
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Taxpayer, kittens don’t serve.
Today, sadly, President Joe Biden’s administration is on the verge of launching
painful experiments on seven cats at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA).
A White House cabinet member is personally leading the charge. (More on that in
a bit).
Taxpayer, one word from Biden could save these seven
kittens.
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This is Veterans Day weekend. So, we just hit the airwaves with a new
advertising campaign.
But you can do your part. Follow this link to sign our petition
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Make your voice heard,
P.S. Very Important Disclaimer: First Lady Jill Biden and Joe Biden recently adopted a cat named Willow. Biden
also ended NIH funding for Putin’s kitten tests in Russia…but only after we exposed it, and you asked him to close it.
So Taxpayer, if you–and enough outraged taxpayers,
veterans, and pet owners–send him this Veterans Day message, it will work again.
It takes just seven seconds to save seven small cats.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is asking Congress to approve his
request to obtain seven cats for research at the Louis Stokes Cleveland
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, despite a change in federal law
prohibiting the research.
McDonough said in the letter the VA intends to implant an experimental device in
the cats.
“This research will study promising technology that could benefit Veteran stroke
survivors, as well as those who have experienced a lower limb or hand
amputation,” McDonough wrote in June 2022 to Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of
New Mexico, chairman of the Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Military
Construction, Veteran Affairs and Related Agencies.
The letter was obtained via a public records request by the White Coat Waste
Project (WCW), an animal welfare organization working to eliminate government
funding of painful research on cats, dogs, and non-human primates.
No cats have been purchased for the experiments, according to WCW.
“Currently, no lab at the VA or other federal agency is abusing cats in painful
experiments,” says WCW in a news release. Federal records confirm the federal
government conducted no experiments on cats in 2022.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus, an opponent of federally-funded animal
testing, wrote in an April 2023 letter to McDonough that the “decision appears
to be at odds with Congressional intent, federal law, and the VA’s own animal
research policy and agency efforts to eliminate the use of cats.”
“In your letter to Congress, you justified the study by writing that, ‘FDA
requires that the [device] be tested in living animals before being further
studied in human patients.’ However, as you are aware, federal law was recently
amended to remove the FDA’s outdated, burdensome, and unnecessary animal testing
requirements,” Titus wrote, referencing the Reduce Animal Testing Act.
“The painful cat tests Sec. McDonough is trying to ram through are wasteful,
unnecessary and would violate federal law that restricts funding for VA cat
tests because they are not legally required and because alternatives that don’t
use cats, or animals at all, are available,” says Justin Goodman of WCW.
WCW has worked with Titus and lawmakers from both parties to defund the VA’s
animal tests, “save for specific instances where the Secretary determines it is
necessary and unavoidable and personally approves it in writing,” says Goodman.
The VA did not immediately respond to requests for the status of the effort to
revive testing on cats.
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