White Coat Waste
Project
September 2017
A brave Iraq war veteran who works at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia has come forward with disturbing new details about the facility where more than 100 dogs are “set to die” in abusive and wasteful forced heart attack experiments and other painful cardiac studies first exposed by WCW and called “torture” by Richmond-area Congressman Dave Brat.
As reported by Richmond ABC affiliate WRIC, the veteran filed complaints and went public after seeing one of the dogs covered in bloody lacerations. He explained:
He took a photograph to document the alarming image:
Photo taken by a whistleblower inside a dog experimentation laboratory
at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The whistleblower explained:
I don’t think it’s the VA’s job to be doing this to dog’s…I think they should be focusing on taking care of veterans.
Additionally, the whistleblower’s union representative reported that several other employees have expressed “concerns about the animals conditions” and that “they were seeing them in pain, distress.”
The union rep also echoed concerns that the dog laboratories are wasting resources needed to improve veterans’ care.
Help end this abuse. Tell Congress: Support the newly introduced PUPPERS Act to defund V.A. dog experiments to end taxpayer funding for painful dog experiments at the V.A.
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