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You are receiving this email because you took action to end wasteful government animal testing. If you no longer believe in ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments, you can unsubscribe.

Thank you for chipping in to stop NIH’s coke hound experiments. As you’ll see below, I’m confident we’re going to save beagle puppies (and a lot more lab cats, too).

Taxpayer, White Coat Waste is a Project to: 

Unite Rs and Ds to cut wasteful spending on animal experiments. 
End the culture of losing. Establishment groups haven’t shut down any government dog labs in 17 years, or any federal cat labs in 40 years! That's unacceptable.
Obliterate the U.S. government’s animal testing business.

Here’s my new op-ed with Rep. Nancy Mace on our bipartisan plan—and progress—for all three goals.  

Got two minutes to read it? If not, here’s the punchline: Stop the Money. Stop the Madness! 

You Give. We Win. They Survive.

P.S. Taxpayer, I know you hate losing. I know you’re frustrated with over 40 years of failure for lab animals. This Congresswoman and I have a plan to win. Newsweek just published it. Please read, share, and sign below.

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If you support our plan to end NIH’s dog & cat labs, please send an email to Capitol Hill.

Originally published by Newsweek
Written by WCW President Anthony Bellotti and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)

We took on Anthony Fauci's barbaric beagle abuse and won. Now, we're working to stop all canine cruelty funded with Americans' hard-earned tax dollars.

We first started fighting dog testing funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) together in 2021, when we exposed a wasteful $1.7 million grant to cut the vocal cords out of 44 beagle puppies so they couldn't bark in the lab and force-feed them massive doses of experimental drugs.

Then, in the summer of 2022, White Coat Waste Project's (WCW) viral #BeagleGate campaign uncovered that Dr. Fauci's division of the NIH—the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—was planning to waste another $1.8 million in taxpayer funds to abuse puppies as young as six months old in a series of five painful and unnecessary experiments. Why? According to the documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, it was to test an experimental new drug for seasonal allergies.

We immediately sprang into action and called for the project to be canceled. In addition to the cruelty involved, this taxpayer-funded dog testing was completely wasteful. The Food and Drug Administration has stated that it "does not mandate that human drugs be studied in dogs." Even the contractor Fauci was paying to conduct the dog tests admitted they were unnecessary.

After pressure from us, countless taxpayers, and Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Dr. Fauci gave in and responded, "No experiments using the canine model are being conducted under this contract."

Even though Fauci is gone from government, abusive animal experimentation continues. Under "America's Doctor," the NIAID initiated some of the most depraved testing on pets, and it's still happening.

So, we've just rolled out the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act, a bipartisan bill to cut funding for the NIH's most painful experiments on dogs and cats, including harmful tests where pain relief is completely withheld.

Dr. Fauci blessed dozens of barbaric and expensive experiments on pets that consistently fail to provide cures for humans.

In one NIAID project that started under Fauci and received nearly $10 million in taxpayer funds, experimenters rounded up abandoned hounds, drugged them, and locked them in mesh cages. Then, they strapped capsules full of hungry sand flies to the dogs' ears so the insects could "feed" on the dogs. Documents obtained by WCW show that the discarded dogs suffered significant pain and distress in the NIH testing. When the experiment was over, the dogs were killed and dissected.

In another Fauci-backed experiment slated to run through 2026, hundreds of beagle puppies as young as four months old are infested with mutant ticks and many are denied all pain relief as they're bitten alive.

One more active project started under Fauci disturbingly named dozens of beagles after popular musicians and TV show characters, including Snoop Dogg; Eminem; Bon Jovi; and Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel from Friends, and then infested them with hungry, disease-infested black flies for vaccine tests in which they "vocalized in pain."

The animal abuse isn't limited to labs on U.S. soil either.

Dr. Fauci infamously funded a Tunisian lab that locked beagle puppies' heads in cages so hungry biting flies could feed on their faces. Disturbing images from this experiment went viral and prompted outrage from taxpayers and lawmakers of all political stripes. Fauci and NIH tried to disavow the project after widespread condemnation, but records obtained by WCW later proved he funded it.

Americans across the political spectrum agree that their tax dollars should not be wasted by bureaucrats to bankroll the torture of pets in laboratories at home or abroad. The PAAW Act is the solution.

Stop the money. Stop the madness.

Nancy Mace represents South Carolina's First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Anthony Bellotti is president and founder of government watchdog group White Coat Waste Project.

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If you support our plan to end NIH’s dog & cat labs, please send an email to Capitol Hill.