Lawmakers celebrated meeting a beagle rescued from an inhumane testing lab, committing to help stop taxpayers from funding such experiments on animals and working with taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
A federal judge in Lynchburg, Virginia, has okayed a plan to transfer 4,000 beagles from an Envigo breeder mill so they can be adopted.
Beagle puppies who were killed in an experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were named after celebrities and popular television characters, according to taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
A “tribute” mosaic portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci, comprising hundreds of images of monkeys and beagles he and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are accused of being responsible for having “tormented and killed in cruel experiments,” was unveiled by animal rights group PETA after a recent glimpse into the top infectious diseases expert’s office revealed large portraits and other memorabilia portraying himself.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is facing a congressional probe after reports emerged alleging that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a cruel experiment, injecting beagle puppies with cocaine.
PETA senior vice president of cruelty investigations Daphna Nachminovitch accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of being involved in a $1.2 million contract to purchase beagles for “cruel experiments,” Fox News reported.
PETA has been fighting to end using animals in experiements and has renewed its efforts in light of cruel treament of monkeys and beagles.
