“FDA drastically cuts primate testing”
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[[link removed]]EXCLUSIVE: FDA Drastically Cuts All Primate Testing, Shuts Down Major Monkey
Lab, Following White Coat Waste Project Campaign
Not a single federal primate lab was closed by an establishment animal rights
group during either the Trump or Biden administrations.
Published by Timcast
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Big animal rights groups like PETA are taking donors’ money for expensive ad
buys, lavish galas, and endless campaigns with empty promises — but the
government watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has actually been stopping
the government from torturing dogs, monkeys, and other animals in testing labs
in the U.S., China and more foreign countries with billions of taxpayers’ money.
Now, following a seven-year WCW grassroots and lobbying effort to defund the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) National Center for Toxicological
Research (NCTR), the FDA Commissioner’s office confirmed in an August 22, 2023,
email to WCW that “NCTR does not currently have an NHP program. It was retired
in December 2022.”
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Additionally, government records analyzed by WCW and provided exclusively to
TimCast show that the FDA’s overall use of primates in experiments has dropped
by nearly two-thirds since WCW’s campaign began in 2016.
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In an exclusive statement to TimCast, WCW’s president and founder Anthony
Bellotti celebrated the big development,
“We’re proud to have scored this victory in the war on waste by shutting down
the FDA’s biggest primate lab and cutting its widely opposed taxpayer-funded
monkey business overall by a staggering 63 percent.
When we first launched our investigation and campaign in 2016, FDA’s primate
experimentation was rapidly on the rise, with over 381 monkeys abused at its lab
each year—now, it’s just 141, and we closed down its single biggest offender
entirely.”
Using records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), WCW’s
investigations documented that FDA’s NCTR wasted $5.5 million to lock up baby
squirrel monkeys in tiny cages and strap them in custom-made vests that infused
nicotine into their veins when they pressed a lever.
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After WCW’s investigation broke, the group joined forces with Republican
lawmakers like Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) and
successfully convinced the Trump FDA to stop the nicotine addiction tests on
monkeys and relocate over two dozen of the animals to a primate sanctuary for
the first time in agency history.
But the FDA’s Arkansas-based NCTR lab, which received $77 million last year from
the Biden Administration, continued abusing other primates in wasteful
taxpayer-funded experiments.
Records obtained by WCW through ongoing FOIA requests and lawsuits showed that
the FDA lab was using tax dollars to breed baby monkeys, rip them away from
their mothers, and perform “simulated” surgeries on the newborns and expose them
to anesthetics before killing them at five days old.
Disturbing emails released to WCW show that FDA researchers wrote “thanks for
the great team work” on “the experiment of exposing the neonatal monkey…the baby
monkey is being kept in the incubator. It will be euthanized for sampling.”
Internal FDA videos obtained by WCW also show FDA researchers dancing around as
they locked a small monkey alone in a lab cage.
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FDA documents obtained by WCW show that in other tests, monkeys were locked in
tiny cages for over a decade and forced to consume massive doses of drugs,
including Ritalin, ketamine, and amphetamines, every day to get them addicted
and then force them into withdrawal.
The drug-addled monkeys were then confined in restraint devices and locked in
testing chambers. The FDA researchers described “testing akin to playing video
games for candy” and wrote that the restrained monkeys “enjoy” it.
The FDA’s records obtained by WCW tell a different story. AT NCTR, monkeys bit
and tore at their own flesh, and the suffering of the primates abused in these
experiments was so severe that many were killed.
Following WCW’s campaign and investigations, this FDA lab has shut down all
primate testing as of December 2022, and WCW is working to stop the rest of the
FDA’s monkey tests.
Since 2016, WCW has worked with Rep. Gaetz and others in Congress to expose
abuses, enact legislation directing the FDA to reduce primate testing,
prioritize alternative testing methods, and secure a first-ever agency policy
allowing the FDA to relocate primates to sanctuaries.
The group’s lobbying and grassroots campaign work is making a big impact.
When WCW’s campaign launched in 2016, the FDA reported using 381 primates in
experiments. In 2022, the most recent data available, the FDA reported using
141, reflecting a 63 percent cut. No other organization has been working to stop
the FDA’s primate research and not a single federal primate lab was closed by an
establishment animal rights group during either the Trump or Biden
administrations.
WCW’s Bellotti explained,
“The White Coat Waste Project is proud to be the only organization that has
successfully shut down government primate labs—or any monkey tests in the United
States—in nearly a decade.
A majority of Democrats and Republicans agree: taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to
pay for cruel and wasteful government spending on primate tests, and we’ll
continue to make sure they don’t have to and that NCTR doesn’t start monkeying
around again. Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
Taxpayer, thank you for reading. Together, we are making
great progress for primates — but our work is far from over.
Over 9,000 primates remain imprisoned and abused in federal labs run by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control, Dept. of
Defense (DOD), Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA),
and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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