Taxpayer— a reminder…

Midnight tonight is your last chance to save 24 cats from being blinded and butchered in a filthy laboratory at the University of Rochester.

Everything else you need to know is below.

Thanks,
MaryAnn Hussey

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Taxpayer, it’s "kitten season" inside the U.S. government. First, 21 cats lost their limbs in an NIH-funded lab.

Now, another 24 felines may lose their eyes… and their lives.

The University of Rochester is about to get more tax money from the NIH. Why? To purchase and slaughter cats for the sole purpose of HARVESTING EYEBALLS. 

The Rochester lab could begin removing their eyes as early as tomorrow morning!

RAPID RESPONSE NEEDED: Follow this secure link to chip in $2.40 (only ten cents per cat!) or as much as you can afford.

Actual screenshot from NIH RePORTER—our government’s database of payouts for animal experiments.

Save 24 Cats
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Taxpayer, I really need your help tonight. If you don’t step up, here’s what will happen: 

• Bought from a Kitten Mill: Liberty Research is a greedy, Envigo-style dealer. It sells “purpose-bred” kittens to labs like Rochester.
• Restrained in a Vise: Metal posts are implanted in her skull. She can’t move. Eyes. Wide. Open.
• 44 Mutilated Eyeballs: Scrapers. Lasers. Chemicals. Corneal transplants. Her eyes are damaged in a variety of ways. It’s awful.
• 24 Cat Corpses: She was in perfect health. She would’ve made a great pet. But they killed her anyway. Just for her eyes.
• Your Tax bill: $7 million! Now, NIH is about to give them a fat pay raise.

Actual lab papers describing the eyeball harvesting, written by Rochester white coats.

End the Blinding
Save 24 Cats >>

Taxpayer, our government claims this is life-saving research. 

But the Rochester lab has been repeating nearly identical cat experiments for a generation. NIH itself admits that it’s already squandered $7 million.

So, 24 cats will die for nothing. It’s sheer government WASTE! 

Emergency
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Taxpayer, here’s why it’s urgent: NIH payout #R01EY015836—the federal grant funding the Rochester cat lab—comes due at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

White Coat Waste just launched a new rapid response campaign to prevent another round of eyeball harvesting.

We’ve filed a federal complaint. Last time we filed a complaint at a Veterans Affairs kitten lab, the Inspector General opened a law enforcement investigation… and we saved the Stokes 7!

We’ve also increased our advertisements targeting lawmakers with budget authority. Last time we did this, we closed the U.S. government’s largest cat lab… and retired the survivors to loving homes.

But our budget is stretched incredibly thin right now.

Save 24 Felines!
Stop Payout #R01EY015836 >>

Taxpayer, here’s the problem: We’re in the middle of another costly battle with the government. As you know, we’re fighting to block the purchase of kittens (the “NIH 21”) they plan to amputate in a different lab.

We simply weren’t financially prepared to ramp up two new campaigns this month.

If we can’t raise at least $75,000 before midnight Tuesday, we will have to choose between saving the NIH 21, or the Rochester 24 cats.

Taxpayer, that’s not a choice I want to have to make.

So please, please, PLEASE rush $2.40 (only ten cents per cat!) or whatever you can afford before the rapid response deadline.

Please help us block payout #R01EY015836, support all our life-saving campaigns, and end the fed’s eyeball harvest.

Thank you for your consideration,

Claudia Taylor Investigator White Coat Waste Project