UNFULFILLED PROMISES

When Dr. Jay Bhattacharya became new head of the NIH and announced that he would be “cutting back” on animal experiments large animal groups celebrated. He soon followed up that announcement by refunding the notorious NPRC labs at Oregon Health and Science University ensuring that thousands more primates would be tortured, paid for by our tax dollars. He and his deputy director, Nicole Kleinstreuer, a vivisection advocate who had worked on Obama’s staff, also renewed the Biden administration dog and cat labs and funded new ones. Kleinstreuer said, “We have no intention of phasing out the experiments overnight because they’re very important and often scientifically justified.”

We and our supporters wasted no time letting Kleinstreuer know that what she was saying about vivisection being science was a lie and that animal experiments are a fraud and completely useless. White Coast Waste launched a media blitz and thousands of people called and emailed the NIH demanding an end to the dog and cat experiments. After Bhattacharya was questioned by Congress, he and Kleinstreuer disavowed their former statements and now say they will phase out their dog and cat labs. We’ll wait and see how fast that happens. They cannot be trusted to do as they say.

OVERSEAS NIH FUNDING

The NIH is also continuing to fund foreign vivisection labs where there is no oversight whatsoever. The NIH sends these labs our tax dollars without checking if anything the vivisectors say about their so-called “research” is factual. In a newsletter last year, we outlined some of the gruesome experiments being funded in foreign countries, some so horrific that their own country’s local government shut them down while the NIH dragged their feet about stopping the funding.

At that time, Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Troy Nehls (R-Texas-22) sponsored the Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act (HR 4757) in the House of Representatives and we asked you to contact your representatives in Congress and request that they support this bill. The bill languished in the House but now the CARGO Act has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Nehls and Titus, HR 1085, and introduced in the Senate by Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), S 1802. This bill would end the funding of animal experiments in foreign countries that in one decade alone has amounted to tax payer waste of over $2 billion. The bill ending this shocking waste of money on barbaric and fraudulent experiments overseas now has a chance of being passed if it receives enough support from the public. So we are asking once again that you contact your representatives and senators and ask that they support the CARGO Act in the House and in the Senate.

Please copy the following paragraph and click on democracy.io then fill in your name and address to be taken to a site where you can contact your own members of Congress. Then paste the message into the message area. Sharing your own thoughts is even more effective.

Dear (Your Representative)

I am writing to you today as your constituent to ask you to please support the CARGO ACT – HR 1085 and S 1802. It’s time to stop the fraud, waste, and horrific experiments in overseas vivisection labs funded by the National Institutes of Health  who exercise no oversight whatsoever. Experiments on animals cannot be extrapolated to humans and using the excuse that these experiments somehow benefit people is completely false. Giving our hard-earned tax dollars to allow vivisectors to brutalize animals is unacceptable both at home and abroad. A notorious NIH lab in Colombia which was investigated and shut down by the Colombian government is only one example of the criminal waste perpetrated by NIH-funded vivisectors overseas. Despite being aware of the horrendous plight of the animals in this lab, and despite the fact that the Columbian government stepped in to close the lab, the NIH refused to stop funding the experiments and looked for ways to move the lab to another country so the torture could continue. After this vile scheme by the NIH was exposed by animal groups, the NIH reluctantly stopped the funding. Passing this act will save taxpayers billions of dollars. I want my money to be spent on scientific, clinical research here at home, not on animal torture which has nothing to do with advancing the state of health for human beings.

Thank you for your time and your support of this very important ACT.

Sincerely,

ANOTHER ACTION ON THE CARGO ACT

And let’s hold Dr. Bhattacharya’s feet to the fire. Tell him that you know he is aware of the fact that vivisection is a fraud and a waste of tax payer money and it’s time for him to have the courage to end animal testing at the NIH, including the horrendously cruel foreign vivisection laboratories.

You can write to him in your own words, copy and paste the paragraph to your representatives, or copy and paste the following message and email him at jayanta.bhattacharya@nih.gov We tested this email several hours ago and so far it wasn’t blocked. At times when politicians or government agencies receive too many emails they shut them down. Hopefully, all of yours will go through.

Dear Dr. Bhattacharya:

We are aware of the fact that you understand that vivisection is a fraud and that experiments on animals cannot be extrapolated to humans because of differences in physiology, metabolism, genetics, biochemistry, diet, and environment. You promised to “phase out” animal experimentation and replace it with the plethora of non animal testing methods that are available. Instead, you refused to shut down the Biden era cat and dog labs and refunded more vivisection like the gruesome NPRC vivisection labs in Oregon.

Now the CARGO Act is in both houses of Congress and we are asking our representatives to support the end of waste and fraud of overseas vivisection labs. You should be supporting this Act and letting Congress know you support it. Foreign countries have been allowed to brutalize animals on the backs of US tax payers for decades to the tune of billions of dollars. It’s time for that to end. Even when the fraud and abuse was obvious, the NIH refused to stop the funding even though local governments took action, just as the Columbian government was forced to act to shut down the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center and the Primate Center Foundation, saying it was ‘NOT SAFE FOR HUMANS OR ANIMALS.” Even after the NIH knew all the gruesome details about that lab they tried to find ways to move the lab to another country.

This abominable behavior can’t continue under your leadership. It is shameful and unacceptable.

Support the CARGO Act and put a stop to this fraud, waste, and abuse.

Sincerely,

Bypassing UK law, vivisectors from Newcastle University, traveled to Kenya to use wild-caught baboons in disturbing and highly invasive experiments. After these experiments were exposed and after a loud public outcry, these vivisectors announced they would be “stopping the research in Kenya and reviewing all their overseas research involving animals.” As we know, vivisectors lie and cannot be trusted, but with the passing of the Cargo Act, we taxpayers will not be funding foreign brutality to animals like this any longer.

A NEW DAY – ANOTHER CHANCE?

With new members in Congress, it is now possible that this bill will pass and the overseas labs will be defunded. But friendly members of Congress who support the new bill need our support to overcome the objections of politicians who are bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical/vivisection industry. They need you to tell them that not only do these cruel labs have no oversight, but also, they need to know that what vivisectors are doing in those labs is scientific fraud and a waste of our tax dollars.

YOU ARE THE KEY TO SUCCESS

Thank you for your dedication to the animals trapped in vivisection labs, for your perseverance in helping them, and for having the courage and compassion to not turn a blind eye to their torment.

Thank you for keeping the calls coming in to councilmember Harris-Dawson and asking him to put Motion 25-0446 on the floor so the city council can vote to send Billy and Tina to a sanctuary. 213-473-7008. You are all amazing.