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Hey, thanks to you we’ve retired lab animal survivors at
the VA, the FDA and the NIH!
But what about lab animal survivors from other government labs? Violet’s Law
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Thanks,
Anthony
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Dear Taxpayer,
The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is shutting down 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?
Back in the summer of 2018, I asked my top investigators this very question. And
what I learned shocked and sickened me.
Turns out, big government white coats either:
* Kill survivors and throw them out like trash, OR
* Ship them to a new lab for even more torture (“recycling”).
Bureaucrats are just too lazy and too cheap to retire animals who survive testing
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Wasteful? Cruel? Yes, x2.
Well, Taxpayer, taxpayers ‘bought’ these animals. So I
instructed my team to launch the first-ever campaign to make Uncle Sam
#GiveThemBack.
Thanks to you, we WON at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the Food and Drug
Administration, and the National Institutes of Health!
But there’s much more to do — and once again, I think I’ve found the secret…
Violet’s Law will free ALL lab survivors… across the entire federal government!
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Taxpayer, that’s why a former United States Congressman —
currently a WCW Advisory Board member — asked me to send you his new op-ed.
See below. It’s a quick 5-minute read and a warm reminder that when you support
WCW, you’re not only saving tax money… you’re saving lives.
Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!
Anthony Bellotti
President & Founder
White Coat Waste Project
P.S. Did you know that Congressman Bishop also saved my own cats
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I adopted Delilah and Petite — two survivors of the USDA Kitten Slaughterhouse
lab. More below.
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CONGRESS CAN PROVIDE A SECOND CHANCE FOR LAB ANIMALS
by former Congressman Mike Bishop
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Four thousand beagles previously locked up in an abusive facility that bred dogs
for painful and wasteful experiments are being adopted out to loving homes
nationwide, including in Michigan.
Social media has been inundated with videos of these sweet puppy survivors
enjoying their first toys, their first treats, their first baths, and even their
first experiences walking on grass.
Unfortunately, I know from personal experience that most dogs and other animals
abused in our government’s laboratories are not as lucky.
Thankfully, Congress is working across party lines to pass a bill called
Violet’s Law to give many more survivors a second chance.
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Back in 2018, when I was serving in the House of Representatives, my friends at the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) revealed stomach-turning and
downright mad experiments on kittens performed at a U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) lab in Maryland.
In this secretive government program, thousands of kittens were bred and
purchased from places like Envigo, forced to eat infected raw meat, and finally
killed by bureaucrats in white coats.
WCW even exposed cannibalism tests in which the USDA kittens were forced to
consume cat meat purchased from disease-ridden ‘wet markets’ in China.
Beyond their jaw-dropping cruelty, these experiments were exorbitantly expensive
— running continuously inside the government and on the American taxpayer’s dime
for nearly five decades, while wasting over $22 million.
I immediately demanded answers, then introduced new legislation with colleagues
on both sides of the aisle, the KITTEN Act, to defund the USDA’s “Kitten
Slaughterhouse.”
Following my letter and legislation, an extensive WCW investigation and
campaign, and widespread media outrage, USDA shut down the federal government’s
largest cat lab, and adopted out the survivors.
To be more precise, USDA tried to adopt out the survivors. Unfortunately, USDA
had no policy in place for the retirement of lab animals upon the conclusion of
experiments, so it actually had to sell the surviving cats as “excess property,”
just like old desks or office chairs, at the cost of $1 apiece.
There’s a word for this: bureaucracy.
Had there not been so much media interest in USDA’s taxpayer-funded kitten
experiments, what would have happened to the survivors? Sadly, you already know
the answer: they would have been slaughtered and incinerated.
According to documents obtained by WCW’s Freedom of Information Act
investigation, around 3,000 kittens had already been needlessly killed by white coats at USDA, even
though they were healthy enough to adopt.
To this day, USDA still does not have a retirement policy for its surviving lab
animals, despite a recent Congressional mandate for them to do so.
Many bureaucrats in white coats at other federal animal testing agencies still
refuse to let families adopt survivors — even though hard-working Americans foot
the $20 billion annual bill to purchase and experiment on our furry friends.
Bottom line: taxpayers ‘bought’ these lab animals; Uncle Sam should give them
back!
Following efforts by WCW and Congressional advocacy, the National Institutes of
Health, Food and Drug Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs have all
successfully created such policies for their in-house labs and placed animals in
loving homes. A promising start.
However, adoption must be an option in all of the federal government’s animal
labs. The bipartisan, bicameral Violet’s Law (also known as the AFTER Act) would
require all agencies that experiment on animals to develop a retirement policy
for their healthy survivors.
It’s a common-sense, life-saving bill that helps shift power from the
administrative state to families — hence its tremendous support from Democratic
and Republican members of the House and Senate.
Passing Violet’s Law is simply the right thing to do, both for the animals, who
deserve a second chance at happy lives, and for American taxpayers.
Until then, our message is clear: Stop the money. Stop the madness!
Mike Bishop represented Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in U.S. Congress
from 2015–2019. He previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives
and as the majority leader in the Michigan State Senate. Bishop is a volunteer
member of the advisory board of non-profit government watchdog group White Coat
Waste Project.
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