Stop spending taxpayer dollars on cruel NIH animal experiments

We took on Anthony Fauci’s barbaric abuse of beagles and won. Today, we are working to end all dog cruelty funded by American taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars.

We began fighting together against National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded canine testing in 2021, when we revealed an unnecessary $1.7 million grant to cut the vocal cords of 44 beagle puppies so they can’t bark at the lab and force… give them massive doses of experimental drugs.

Then, in the summer of 2022, the White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) viral #BeagleGate campaign revealed that Dr. Fauci’s division of the NIH – the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – planned to waste 1 .8 million additional dollars in public spending. funds to mistreat puppies as young as six months old in a series of five painful and unnecessary experiments. For what? According to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this involved testing a new experimental drug for seasonal allergies.

We immediately took action and called for the project to be canceled. In addition to the cruelty involved, these taxpayer-funded dog tests were a complete waste. The Food and Drug Administration has stated that it “does not require that drugs intended for human use be studied in dogs.” Even the contractor Fauci paid to perform the dog tests admitted they were useless.

Under pressure from us, countless taxpayers, and Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Dr. Fauci relented and responded: “No experiments using the canine model are being conducted under this contract. »

Even though Fauci has left government, abusive animal testing continues. Under the umbrella of “America’s Doctor,” the NIAID initiated some of the most depraved testing on pets, and it’s still happening.

So we just implemented the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at cutting funding for the NIH’s most painful experiments on dogs and cats, including harmful tests in which the pain relief is completely denied.

Dr. Fauci has blessed dozens of barbaric and costly pet experiments that consistently fail to provide cures for humans.

In an NIAID project started under Fauci and received nearly $10 million in public funds, experimenters rounded up abandoned dogs, drugged them, and locked them in wire cages. Then, they attached capsules filled with hungry sandflies to the dogs’ ears so that the insects could “feed” on the dogs. Documents obtained by WCW show that abandoned dogs suffered significant pain and distress during NIH testing. Once the experiment was complete, the dogs were killed and dissected.

In another Fauci-backed experiment expected to run through 2026, hundreds of beagle puppies as young as four months old are infested with mutated ticks and many are denied any pain relief when bitten alive .

Another active project launched under Fauci has ominously named dozens of beagles after popular musicians and TV show characters, including Snoop Dogg; Eminem; Bon Jovi ; and Monica, Phoebe and Rachel from Friendsthen infested them with hungry, disease-ridden black flies for vaccine tests during which they “expressed their pain.”

Animal abuse is not limited to laboratories located on American soil either.

Dr. Fauci funded a Tunisian lab that locked the heads of beagle puppies in cages so hungry biting flies could feed on their faces. Disturbing footage of the experiment went viral and sparked outrage among taxpayers and lawmakers across the political spectrum. Fauci and the NIH attempted to disavow the project after widespread condemnation, but records obtained by WCW later proved he had funded it.

Americans across the political spectrum agree that their tax dollars should not be wasted by bureaucrats to fund the torture of pets in domestic or foreign laboratories. The PAAW law is the solution.

Stop the money. Stop the madness.

Nancy Mace represents South Carolina’s first Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Anthony Bellotti is president and founder of the government watchdog group White Coat Waste Project.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors.