Taxpayer,
Thank you for supporting White Coat Waste Project's (WCW) rapid response efforts to stop Dr. Fauci’s tick experiments and free the Kansas 108. As soon as we get intel on the status of the Fauci funding from our allies on Capitol Hill, you will be the first to know.
Soon we will celebrate our Independence Day. So let’s get the party started early:
BREAKING WIN: You and WCW just freed the ‘Stokes Sisters’ from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA)!
Last August, we discovered a funding deadline for kitten experiments at Stokes VA Medical Center.
The VA’s white coats had already tortured and killed 11 kittens... but two little girls were still alive.
So you and I launched a rescue mission to save them… and WE DID IT!
Both the Stokes Sisters were retired to loving homes. See below
Taxpayer, your advocacy and donations to WCW are the reason these kittens are getting a second chance outside the lab. It’s also why we’re on the verge of ending ALL cat experimentation across the federal government.
Now that’s something to celebrate this 4th of July weekend, don’t you think!?
You give. We win. They survive.
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Anthony Bellotti
President & Founder
White Coat Waste Project
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P.S. WCW is declaring our Independence Day from the white coats who steal our money and force us to pay for wasteful government animal experiments. This 4th of July, it begins with the Stokes Sisters! Please read their entire FOIA to Freedom story below – you won't regret it. Thanks, AB.
FOIA TO FREEDOM: HOW WCW SAVED THE STOKES SISTERS
Do you remember what happened on March 16, 2020?
The CDC issued its “15 Days to Slow the Spread” order. The COVID lockdowns began.
U.S. coronavirus cases surged to a then-record level: 3,000.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to another record level: zero.
And the “STOKES SISTERS” were born:
They’re called “blotched tabbies.” The name comes from the pretty swirl pattern on their fur.
The Stokes VA Medical Center (VA) in Cleveland purchased these kittens for experimentation. So, the ‘Stokes Sisters’ spent their lives in a government lab.
Well, MOST of their lives…
Here at the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), we have a proven strategy to follow the money, cut wasteful government spending, and end animal experiments.
THEN, we retire as many survivors as we can to the taxpayers who pay the bills.
It’s called FOIA to Freedom. Here’s how we did it for the Stokes Sisters.
CRUELTY IN CLEVELAND
WCW launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation to find out how white coats at the Stokes VA were wasting our tax money.
And what we found was terrible: a $3.4 million payout for experiments on kittens, some as young as six months old.
Severed spines. Crippled for life. Seizures. Bloody urine. Even depression.
Photos, videos, and lab documents we obtained revealed painful and mutilating surgeries on kittens, with electrodes implanted to remotely stimulate their bladders or colons.
Other kittens had artificial stool made from “bran, potato flour and saline” inserted into their anuses.
Almost gives new meaning to government waste, doesn’t it?
Some of their spinal cords were severed while they were still alive.
Some had already been killed and dissected, like Odie:
WCW obtained this video filmed shortly before VA white coats killed Odie on May 7, 2019
And Copper:
Here’s an actual video of Copper, filmed just before Stokes white coats killed him on October 21, 2019
Once the checks cleared the bank and the experiments finished, the Stokes protocol explicitly called for all kitten survivors to be destroyed.
The odds were against us.
We campaigned hard to beat the clock and free the imprisoned Stokes Sisters before it was too late.
Bottom line: the Stokes Sisters were P.O.W.s — prisoners of WASTE!
THE RESCUE MISSION
To free these federal hostages, we took a page from our own playbook: F.E.D.
Step 1: Find Gov’t Waste. You’ve seen why FOIA is so important. Nobody knew what was happening at Stokes.
Step 2: Expose Gov’t Waste. We launched an all-out media blitz to get international press attention.
We ran ads like this:
We got celebrities, too:
Step 3: Defund Gov’t Waste. We united powerful Republicans and Democrats in Congress to cut the federal purse strings.
Heroes like this:
And this:
To WIN BIG like this:
FROM LAB CATS TO LAP CATS
WCW’s grassroots army — 3 million animal lovers and liberty lovers — was now fully mobilized for the War on Waste.
Taxpayers bought the Stokes Sisters. We demanded the government #GiveThemBack!
Following WCW’s campaign, VA white coats modified the protocol to let the Stokes Sisters be adopted.
WCW made the VA change policy to permit taxpayer adoption of the Stokes Sisters.
WHY IT MATTERS
Every ‘FOIA to Freedom’ story is a tremendous victory — and tremendously rare.
Labs rarely shut down. Survivors rarely get out.
So, when we discover individual animals via FOIA, close their labs, and ALSO succeed at getting survivors retired…it’s a very BIG deal.
Yet we’ve done it time and time again. WCW has:
🐶 Ended the Los Angeles VA’s $XM experiments and turned our friend Bob from lab dog to lap dog
😻 Ended USDA’s $22M ‘Kitten Slaughterhouse’ and adopted out Delilah, Petite, and the other cat survivors.
🐵 Ended FDA’s $5.5M nicotine experiments and retired its baby monkeys to a sanctuary
🐰 Ended EPA’s bunny experiments and secured pardons for the survivors
And now the Stokes Sisters.
Every FOIA to Freedom story shows why Violet’s Law is so important.
WCW’s bipartisan, bicameral legislation — named after the most famous of all lab survivors — will make retirement a requirement across the entire federal government.
Please tell Congress to pass Violet’s Law (A.K.A., the AFTER Act) NOW!
