Thank you for your donation, Taxpayer! Want to see what we did with it? I promise it was worth EVERY penny 🙂. You see, I started this organization on my own dime. But I couldn't afford to keep doing it alone.

Taxpayer, THANK YOU. Because of your generous financial support, we didn't just meet our end-of-year budget before the deadline... we slightly exceeded it! Several years ago, I started White Coat Waste Project (WCW) from scratch and funded it out of my own pocket. But I couldn't afford to keep doing it alone. Since then, over 2 million animal lovers and liberty lovers like you have stepped up, Taxpayer. Now our movement has grown into something spectacular... it's a full-scale taxpayer revolt against government animal testing! Taxpayer, see for yourself. Here's how your investment in WCW made history in 2019: Following WCW's exposé and year-long campaign against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Kitten Slaughterhouse" — which fed cat and dog meat to kittens among other horrors — the USDA shut down the project that wasted $22 million over 37 years and killed an estimated 3,000 healthy kittens. The surviving cats were adopted out and two of them, Petite and Delilah (pictured above), were able to visit the lawmakers that worked with WCW to end the experiments. Following WCW's "EPA Sucks" campaign, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a historic plan to phase out all testing on mammals by 2035, with a major reduction by 2025. This marks the first time a government agency set a hard deadline to end animal testing. WCW was the only organization that worked with Congress to enact legislation pushing the EPA to eliminate in-house animal testing, which is now a key part of the EPA's new plan. Since 2016, WCW has been working to end painful dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and 2019 found the tests "slow to a near end." WCW's “Prisoners of Waste” campaign compelled VA labs in Milwaukee and Cleveland to stop their dog experiments, and the VA discontinued its "maximum pain" tests on dogs, marking the end of the government's most painful dog tests. Following lobbying by WCW, Congress also enacted legislation directing the VA to phase-out dog, cat and primate testing by 2025, marking the first time Congress has set a hard deadline for the reduction of animal tests. Following WCW lobbying and advocacy from our supporters, the 2020 federal spending bills signed into law include first-ever language directing several agencies to reduce cruel and wasteful primate tests: NIH must report to Congress on its efforts to reduce primate testing VA must develop a plan to phase out primate, dog and cat testing by 2025 FDA must develop a timeline and plan for the reduction of primate tests, and monkey retirement Following pressure from over 1 million WCW advocates supporting our #GiveThemBack campaign and action from key lawmakers, the NIH — the nation's top funder of animal testing — enacted a policy allowing the retirement of many animals when experiments are shut down, or otherwise end. The AFTER Act (also known as Violet's Law) will strengthen the NIH's policy and ensure all agencies have one as well. A new federal audit prompted by WCW's 2016 “Spending to Death” report confirmed concerns raised by WCW and Congress that federal agencies are not being transparent about efforts to reduce wasteful animal tests. The Government Accountability Office directed agencies to develop a system to track progress toward reducing and replacing federal animal tests with more efficient and effective alternatives. Taxpayer, none of this progress would have been possible without you. With your continued investment in 2020, we’ll stop taxpayer-funded animal experiments, once and for all! Because taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay $15 billion+ for wasteful government animal experiments, Anthony Bellotti President | Founder White Coat Waste Project To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $15 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. DONATE             PO Box 26029 Washington, DC 20001 White Coat Waste Project is a 501(c)(3) bipartisan coalition. Contributions are tax-deductible. Unsubscribe Paid for by The White Coat Waste Project, INC. EIN 46-0856543