The law of supply and demand applies to beagles, too.
Enclosed is my latest op-ed in Newsweek about how you and I are ending taxpayer
funded dog experiments at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). To receive
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Hello –
I wrote an op-ed about how you and I are stopping the big government white coats
who mandate the slaughter of 20,000 puppies each year.
After discovering that as many as one-third of all dogs subjected to experiments in the United States are abused because of outdated regulatory requirements on drug makers from the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), White Coat Waste Project (WCW) launched the
first national campaign to cut FDA dog testing red tape.
It’s a simple proposition: Alternatives to animal testing did not exist in 1938, but they do now; if the
FDA's white coats allowed them, more effective drugs would come to market
faster, at a lower cost to taxpayers.
I hope you’ll take a moment now to read about our progress to Cut FDA Red Tape
in my op-ed below.
Devin Murphy
Public Policy & Communications Manager
White Coat Waste Project
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WHY WE SHOULD CELEBRATE THE END OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON BEAGLES
By Devin Murphy
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UNO, A BEAGLE, JOGS ON A TREADMILL INSIDE THE PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL IN NEW YORK,
FEBRUARY 8, 2008. (SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS)
The DOJ's shutting down a breeder of dogs for experiments is just the latest
sign that we’re moving away from pointless and cruel animal experimentation.
This has been a good month for beagles, and a bad one for the bureaucrats in
white coats who abuse them.
The Department of Justice has taken unprecedented action
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documented extensive abuse and neglect at the company, which is one of the
nation’s largest breeders of beagle puppies for painful and wasteful experiments
[[link removed]] . Many beagles perished before inspectors realized just how bad this puppy mill
was. But 4,000 survived, and these sweet hounds are being put up for adoption
across the United States.
Despite the media’s interest in the Envigo case, however, reporters and outlets
rarely, if ever, ask certain important questions. Such as: Why are companies
“mass-producing” beagles on an industrial scale? Where are they all going? Who
is buying them?
Sadly, you are. Most people are shocked to discover that the culprit behind most
of America’s dog experiments is neither cosmetic nor pharmaceutical companies,
but rather Uncle Sam. That’s right: The federal government spends twice as much
on animal testing as the entire private sector, to the tune of $20 billion
annually.
As a White Coat Waste Project investigation first exposed earlier this year, one
of Envigo’s loyal customers was the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to documents we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA), the NIH was purchasing dozens of puppies from Envigo at a cost to
taxpayers of $1,300 per dog. The beagles had pneumonia-causing bacteria forced
directly into their lungs to cause septic shock. Then, NIH white coats waited to
see how long the dogs lived. If they made it over 96 hours, they were considered
“survivors” — and then killed. We’ve just filed a new federal lawsuit
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Indeed, WCW’s blockbuster #BeagleGate campaign
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the experiments involved injecting puppies with cocaine
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Why beagles? In a callous — or perhaps even diabolical — document, one
government agency explained
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experimentation. Translation: They’re small and easy to abuse.
And it’s not just the NIH tormenting beagles with our money. Since 2016, WCW has
documented how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) conducts some of the
most painful dog experiments in the country. In one horrendous project, VA white
coats injected latex into puppies’ arteries to induce heart attacks, then forced
the dogs to run on treadmills to further stress their damaged hearts.
All of this sounds truly grim. But, fortunately, the future has never looked
brighter for dogs locked in government labs. Recently, after WCW exposed that
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIH division planned to spend $1.8 million for five new experiments on beagle puppies
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[[link removed]] that plans for the dog tests were being scrapped. Lawmakers on both sides of
the aisle have also introduced legislation
[[link removed]] , the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act, to defund painful NIH dog
tests. A July 2022 national poll found that 73 percent of taxpayers support
Congress’s efforts to curb NIH dog testing.
Additionally, for the fifth year running, the House of Representatives has
included WCW-backed language in its yearly VA spending bill to defund painful experiments on dogs
[[link removed]] and cats. As a result of WCW’s efforts, and of bipartisan leadership in
Congress by Representatives Dina Titus (D., Nev.) and Brian Mast (R., Fla.), the
number of painful VA dog experiments has declined by a staggering 87.5 percent
since WCW’s campaign began. Our effort also prompted a landmark study by the
prestigious National Academies that found most of the VA’s dog testing was unnecessary
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alternatives.
Congress may be polarized on some topics, but not on ending wasteful spending on
animal experiments. WCW has united members of Congress across the political
spectrum, from the Freedom Caucus to the Squad, to defund government waste and
abuse.
The law of supply and demand applies to beagles, too. Puppy profiteers like
Envigo will continue to exist until the demand for dogs diminishes. Since most
of this canine-cruelty problem is taxpayer-funded, the solution is clear: Stop
the money. Stop the madness.
CONTACT CONGRESS
[[link removed]] 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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