Enclosed is an important op-ed we wrote with Rep. Malliotakis. It’s just a 5-minute read!
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Taxpayer – there’s good news and bad news.
Bad News: Our government is still killing perfectly healthy animals when they’re no
longer needed in experiments because there isn’t a federal lab animal retirement
law.
Good News: We have a solution.
I’m psyched about my new op-ed with New York Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis
(co-chair of the Animal Protection Caucus) in support of Violet’s Law, a
bipartisan bill to make lab animal adoption an option across the federal
government.
Please give it a quick read below!
Justin Goodman
Senior Vice President
White Coat Waste Project
P.S. After you’re done reading, please take a moment to urge Congress to include Violet’s Law in the 2024 Farm
Bill.
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It’s our best opportunity to make lab animal retirement a requirement across the
entire government for the next five years!
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Pass Violet’s Law to cut government waste and animal cruelty
Op-ed by REP. NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS and JUSTIN GOODMAN
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Violet’s Law is named after a lucky hound named Violet (pictured above) who was
adopted from a taxpayer-funded lab nine years ago by one of WCW’s Board of
Directors.
At over $20 billion a year, the U.S. government is the country’s single largest
funder of wasteful and cruel animal testing.
The good news is that we’re making progress to cut taxpayer-funded experiments
on dogs, cats, and other animals at home and abroad.
In recent years, Congress and the White Coat Waste Project worked together to
uncover and stop Dr. Anthony Fauci’s plan for completely unnecessary $1.8 million drug tests on puppies
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The bad news: Uncle Sam is still killing perfectly healthy animals when they’re
no longer needed in experiments because there isn’t a federal lab animal
retirement law.
The solution is Violet’s Law
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and have it included in the must-pass Farm Bill being crafted in Congress.
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Taxpayers are forced to foot the multi-billion-dollar bill for federal labs to
purchase and conduct outdated, inhumane experiments on tens of thousands of
dogs, cats, rabbits, primates, and other animals every year. Some of these
animals can cost thousands of tax dollars
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While many of us would like to see animal testing end completely, in recent
years, the Department of Veterans Affairs
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As a result, healthy dogs
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retired and re-homed instead of needlessly and wastefully killed.
Research shows
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being released from laboratories.
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Survivors released from taxpayer-funded labs following WCW efforts (L-R): Violet
was rescued from a lab by a WCW board member, Delilah was retired by the USDA
when WCW shut down its Kitten Slaughterhouse, and Gregory is one of 26 monkeys
who WCW got released from the FDA’s now-defunct nicotine lab.
Yet federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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animals when they no longer serve their intended use. We also recently
discovered that the Environmental Protection Agency
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The commonsense Violet’s Law — named for a hound rescued from a government lab
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experiments to establish guidelines allowing the retirement and adoption of
healthy dogs, cats, rabbits, and other regulated animals no longer being used
for research.
Violet’s Law would ensure that lab animal retirement is implemented across all
federal research facilities and gives each agency the authority to create its
own policy. Notably, this carefully crafted and widely supported bill applies
only to the federal government’s in-house labs and does not place any burdens on
private companies or colleges and universities.
Violet’s Law has more than 90 bipartisan cosponsors
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organizations, including the White Coat Waste Project, Taxpayers Protection
Alliance, Free The People, and Advancing Law for Animals.
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Lab animal retirement is also embraced by the biomedical research community.
Additionally, 16 states, including New York, have passed laws encouraging or
requiring the adoption of animals no longer needed for research.
The puppies, kittens, bunnies, and other animals in question were purchased at
great expense to taxpayers.
There’s no reason not to let the public adopt these healthy animals from federal
labs and give them loving homes.
While we continue the fight to end cruel animal testing altogether, it’s time to pass Violet’s Law
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Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R) represents New York’s 11th Congressional
District and serves as co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus.
Justin Goodman is the senior vice president at the White Coat Waste Project.
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Thank you for reading, Taxpayer!
Take Action: Please take a moment to urge Congress to include Violet’s Law in the 2024 Farm
Bill.
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The Farm Bill is a huge opportunity that sets U.S. policy for the next five
years. It’s the best chance we’re going to get until 2028. Just think how many animals we could release!
Email Congress NOW >>
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