We’re causing QUITE the stir, and for good reason (HINT: 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱)
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“Mr. President, Save Us.”
Taxpayer, that’s the message behind our new billboard campaign
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I’ve enclosed our blog below so you can see pictures and watch the media
coverage of our new billboards. The awareness you and I are generating is pretty
incredible.
Thanks for making this possible, Taxpayer, and for not
giving up on the “Stokes 7” cats.
You give. We win. They survive.
Megan Andersen
Vice President
White Coat Waste Project
P.S. After you’re done reading, please also send an email to your members of Congress
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retire the “Stokes 7” to loving homes. Even if you’ve done this already, please do it again!
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WCW Billboards To Biden: SAVE THE #STOKES7
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* WCW just launched a billboard campaign near the Stokes VA in Cleveland urging
President Biden to cancel the lab’s misguided plan to restart wasteful and
cruel cat experiments and save the #Stokes7.
* Congress just defunded and directed the VA to eliminate all testing on cats
by 2026, but VA Secretary McDonough is trying to resurrect them before the
final deadline.
* After ending cat testing in 2021, the Stokes VA lab in Cleveland is trying to
ram through a new invasive, unnecessary, and illegal $50,000 medical device
test in which cats would have wiring implanted into their legs and backs,
risking paralysis and death despite funding restrictions and Congressional
and public opposition.
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Last week, after White Coat Waste Project (WCW) lobbying, Congress passed, and
President Biden ( a cat dad
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experiments on cats, dogs, and primates by 2026.
[[link removed]]But, as WCW previously exposed, the VA is trying to ram through a new wasteful
and cruel cat experiment before the 2026 deadline.
To coincide with Sunshine Week, an annual event dedicated to increasing
government transparency, WCW has launched a new billboard campaign to expose
this wrong-headed plan and urge President Biden to cancel it.
Here’s the billboard running in several locations near the VA’s Stokes lab in
Cleveland, Ohio 👇
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Some background:
Back in 2021, the VA ended its last active cat experiments
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[[link removed]] . In 2022 and 2023, not a single cat was confined or abused in the VA’s labs.
We’re working to keep it that way.
But, despite protests from WCW, taxpayers, and Congress, VA Secretary Denis
McDonough is trying to restart cat testing
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McDonough personally greenlit an invasive, unnecessary, and illegal
[[link removed]] $50,000 medical device test in which seven cats (the #Stokes7) would have
wiring implanted into their legs and backs, risking paralysis and death.
Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent and shouldn’t be
forced to fund wasteful and inhumane experiments on pets!
CONTACT CONGRESS: Rush an email
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they begin!
Email Congress NOW >>
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