The CDC refuses to adopt out cats who survive experiments. Now, we’ve discovered CDC is increasing painful tests on 134 kittens! We just launched this new rapid response campaign to save them. To receive fewer emails, please adjust your preferences.
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My email is long, but here’s the bottom line: the CDC 134 kittens and their friends are facing a life-or-death moment on December 31, and White Coat Waste Project is the only group fighting to save them.
I’ve dedicated my entire career to giving government lab animals a second chance at life, and I’m hoping my story will inspire you to dedicate just $1.34 (1 penny per kitten) … before they’re killed too.
Desiree
“15 fresh cat heads.”
That’s one of the requests I was instructed to fulfill.
But before I go any further into my story, please allow me to introduce myself...
My name is Desiree Bender. I’m a Campaign Manager at the White Coat Waste Project (WCW). I’m a mom to five dogs and four horses.
And I blew the whistle on one of Louisiana’s largest animal shelters for selling dogs and cats — family pets — to a taxpayer-funded animal experimentation lab.
It seemed totally routine when a member of the staff came into my office and asked for my signature. As the shelter’s Executive Director, I signed documents all the time.
But this time, something very different caught my eye: a contract stating Louisiana State University (LSU) was to pay us $40 per dog.
“What business does LSU have buying shelter dogs?” I asked. The answer shook me to my core.
Behind closed doors, our shelter had been euthanizing dogs each time LSU white coats requested a “fresh cadaver” for their experiments.
I called an emergency meeting with the shelter’s board of directors, assuming they’d be just as horrified and would shut down this program immediately. But the opposite happened.
As it turned out, many of them were also on various boards within the LSU system… and they were in on it. My superiors essentially told me to let it go and return to work.
When I got back to my desk, I did some research and found out that killing shelter pets and selling them to labs was not only legal but very common practice at the time.
To add insult to injury, many of the labs that acquired animals this way were funded with our tax dollars.
Needless to say, I didn’t let this go... especially after I uncovered another email from LSU white coats requesting “15 fresh cat heads.”
I was forced to resign from the shelter and was offered a hefty severance check in exchange for my silence.
"Keep your money,” I said. I was going to take them down. And I did.
Determined to blow the whistle far and wide, I led an intense, nine-month-long grassroots campaign to expose and end this scandal. And in 2019, pound seizure was outlawed in the state of Louisiana!
Right now, I’m waging a NEW campaign to save kittens from taxpayer-funded torture. And that’s why I’m writing you so urgently today.
You see, our investigators just discovered that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rapidly increasing its painful tests on cats.
It’s an emergency because if we don’t take immediate action, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky may kill 134 kittens in the new year after they’re abused in government experiments.
My team has obtained new documents showing that:
- Rochelle just started conducting painful experiments on cats again – after years of not doing so.
- She’s also doing it to dogs, monkeys, bunnies, and others. The CDC 134 aren’t alone.
- Pain relief is sometimes completely withheld.
Rochelle refuses to create a lab animal retirement policy. Her lazy bureaucrats at the CDC prefer to just execute the survivors… even the healthy ones who could be adopted out!
The CDC 134 and their friends are facing a life-or-death moment on December 31.
The WCW team is shutting down wasteful government labs in record time. In theory, it's amazing news. But there's a BIG problem: what happens to the animals on day 2?
Big government white coats like Rochelle’s CDC either slaughter the survivors and BURN them like trash OR ship them to a new lab for even more torture (“recycling”).
Taxpayer, with the help of true supporters like yourself, we’ve made the following stubborn bureaucrats create a retirement policy:
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- and the Food and Drug Administration
But Rochelle is defiant. She refuses to let taxpayers adopt survivors like the CDC 134… even though you’re forced to pay her lab abuse bills!
If any group can get the CDC to make adoption an option, it’s WCW. It’s the only group successfully doing this work. It’s the reason I came to work here!
Taxpayer, we’re on an urgent deadline – and we haven’t covered our budget.
I didn’t want to see my tax dollars sever 15 ‘fresh’ cat heads. Now, I definitely don’t want to pay Rochelle to slaughter and incinerate 134 kittens at the CDC.
Never again,
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Desiree Bender White Coat Waste Project |
P.S. Taxpayer, taxpayer-funded animal experimentation is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Government bureaucrats at the top, like Rochelle Walensky, are very powerful. It’s David vs. Goliath… and we’re David.
But Taxpayer, if I learned anything from my experience at the shelter, it’s that when we the people come together, we can beat any evil giant… no matter how big.
We might not be able to cut $20 billion of wasteful spending on animal experiments by December 31, but tonight, we can fight to stop Rochelle, save the CDC 134, and make her retire and release all the survivors.
And I think that’s progress… don’t you?
If your answer is yes, please rush an emergency donation of whatever you can afford for the CDC 134!
P.P.S. Emergency 32-Hour Deadline: every dollar you rush to save the CDC 134 – even if it’s just $1.34 (one penny per kitten!) – is tax-deductible and will be DOUBLED if received by midnight December 31.
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