, BIG things happening over here! I know we’ve been really
intense these last few months, asking for more fundraising and advocacy help
than ever before. We never want to see you go.
But if you want to unsubscribe, just click here [[link removed]] .Taxpayer, BIG things happening over here!
I know we’ve been really intense these last few months, asking for more
fundraising and advocacy help than ever before.
Well, it’s paying off! Democrats and Republicans just can’t agree on anything,
but EVERYONE now agree with you on this:
Taxpayer, that’s the title of the latest op-ed I co-wrote
with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA).
She’s leading the fight to pass the Delilah’s Law
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labs from spending your money in China’s wet markets.
It’s an amazing read – so I’ve forwarded it for you below.
Taxpayer, you’re making noise. Congress is listening. And
with your continued support, we can pass Delilah’s Law and cut China off ... FOREVER!
Because taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay $20+ billion for wasteful government animal experiments,
Anthony Bellotti
President | Founder
White Coat Waste Project
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OPINION
Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying China to make them sick
Despite years of warnings about serious safety issues at China's wet markets and
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, U.S. government agencies continued to spend
taxpayer dollars at both — wasting your money and putting all the world's health
at risk of COVID-19.
This has to stop, and we've got a plan to do it.
Let's start with the nasty truth: China's wet markets are filthy, inhumane
supermarkets of sickness, where live animals, including cats and dogs, are sold,
slaughtered, and butchered for human consumption. Scientists have long warned
that China’s wet markets are unsafe and could release a deadly pathogen into the
world. In fact, nearly two decades ago, SARS was believed to have made the leap
from animals to humans at a wet market in China.
Ever since, scientists have been warning that another, far more virulent virus
could be transmitted from wildlife to humans if these wet markets were not shut
down. Shockingly, instead of urging China to shut down these pandemic petri
dishes as it should have, previous administrations were willing wet market
customers. For over a decade, the U.S. government spent taxpayer dollars
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their body parts back to the United States — in carry-on luggage, no less.
Thankfully, the Trump administration shut down the kitten slaughterhouse last
year.
Last month, the White Coat Waste Project revealed that part of a $3.7 million
National Institutes of Health grant had been funneled to the Wuhan Institute of
Virology for dangerous and secretive coronavirus experiments. This occurred
despite repeated warnings from State Department officials who had visited the
lab that it was dangerous due to lax safety practices and posed a serious public
health threat.
Just days after the exposé, President Trump put an end to that scary spending.
But now, we need to make this permanent, so that a future administration can’t
go back to wasting hard-earned tax dollars at China’s wet markets or labs. Right
now, we’re collaborating with more than 50 members of the Senate and House to
ensure that no COVID-19 relief funding or other tax dollars are ever again spent
on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
At the same time, we’re gearing up to introduce new bipartisan legislation
prohibiting one more American cent from being spent on puppy parts, cats, or any
other animals from the unregulated, unhealthy, and inhumane wet markets in
China.
The lab in Wuhan and China's wet markets both present extreme risks to people’s
health and livelihoods; taxpayers shouldn’t be financing them. We’re grateful
this administration has brought some common sense to this issue that past
administrations failed to do and isn’t funding either the Wuhan lab or the wet
market. Now, we want to be sure that what has happened in the past will never
happen again.
Joni Ernst, a combat veteran, is Iowa's junior U.S. senator. Anthony Bellotti is
the founder and president of the White Coat Waste Project, a 2-million-member
taxpayer watchdog group.
To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $20 billion+ in
wasteful government spending.
We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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