CAMPAIGN PROGRESS REPORT: Stop VA Kitten Experiments
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Taxpayer, we’re fighting a War on Waste and WCW’s mission is clear: end ALL painful cat experiments inside the U.S. government.
Thanks to your support in 2021, we’re closer than ever!
WCW already closed the fed’s largest cat lab: USDA’s Kitten Slaughterhouse. So, we took the battle to the final enemy: the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA).
See below. Here’s your situation report (SitRep) from the front lines.
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Devin Murphy
Public Policy & Communications Manager
White Coat Waste Project
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1.) THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES
Taxpayer, this is my favorite headline from 2021:
“Veterans Affairs Ends Experiments On Cats In West LA.” — CBS News
6-month-old kittens. Suffocated. Injected with poison. Head caps cemented onto their little skulls… before killing them and removing their brains.
The Los Angeles VA was doing REALLY bad stuff with $5 million of your tax money. But it refused to hand over lab records.
So we sued in court…and WE WON, big time.
Just days after we exposed our findings on CBS News TV, the Los Angeles VA ended ALL its experiments on kittens — every single one of them.
Taxpayer, this is a BFD; WCW is the only organization to close a government cat lab in 2021!
Before Los Angeles, there were only four remaining painful cat experiments in the federal government… and then, there were three.
2) CUT THE 💩 IN CLEVELAND
The battle of Los Angeles was a hard-fought victory, but we didn’t rest. Kittens were still suffering at VA labs, and taxpayers like you were still footing the bill for it.
So we proceeded to the next battlefield: Cleveland, where you first helped us expose the waste — in all senses of the word — last year.
Turns out, taxpayers don’t like paying for million-plus-dollar experiments that stuffed kittens full of artificial poop, then killed them. Who’da thunk? (Other than, well, everyone).
Surrounded by our grassroots army and with hard-hitting advertising, WCW cut the crap… literally.
In October, WCW declared victory: the VA’s Cleveland lab stopped its waste-full (and wasteful!) “cat-stipation” experiments for good.
Your tax bill was over a million dollars. Now it’s $0.
Taxpayer, another decisive win and painful government cat experiment — SHUT DOWN by you and WCW.
3) BIPARTISAN BEATDOWN
Even Congress doesn’t usually know about its wasteful spending on animal experiments. Most federal agencies try to keep the abuse as quiet as possible.
That’s where WCW comes in. Think: F.E.D.
Because of your help, we were able to FIND the VA’s kitten labs and EXPOSE the secret videotapes to Members of Congress. 30 legislators sent this letter to the Secretary of the VA, demanding information on the kitten experiments.
Lawmakers were so horrified by WCW’s investigation, that we promptly rallied powerful Republicans and Democrats to DEFUND the VA’s kitten mutilation camps.
Don’t forget, the VA is already required to phase out all its experiments on all dogs, primates, and cats by 2025, but the (bipartisan!) CATS Act would shut them down even faster.
Think of it like WCW’s “nuclear bomb;” it annihilates the enemy’s tax funding in one decisive blow. When the money stops, the killing stops!
4) ENDANGERED SPECIES >> EXTINCTION
Thanks to you, U.S. government testing on cats and kittens is officially on the endangered species list.
There are now just two active cat experiments left at the VA — the last two painful cat labs in the entire federal government.
With our victory over the VA’s Los Angeles cat lab, and progress in Cleveland, WCW is going to close this shameful chapter in American history… and dump wasteful government experiments on cats into the litter box of history.
WCW = Wins. And you’re making them happen, Taxpayer.
Just like you’re going to defund and defeat Dr. Fauci’s #BeagleGate labs, Monkey Island, and Wuhan lab, too.