White Coat Waste
May 2018
A White Coat Waste Project investigation has exposed that a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Maryland breeds up to 100 kittens a year, feeds the 2-month-old kittens parasite-infected raw meat, collects their feces for 3 weeks, and then kills and incinerates the kittens even though they're healthy and adoptable.
Taxpayers have been footing the bill for this kitten abuse for nearly 50
years. Is this how you want your money spent?
Tell Congress to pass the bipartisan Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now
(KITTEN) Act (HR 5780) to cut funding for the USDA's painful,
taxpayer-funded kitten experiments!
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The USDA wastes your money to KILL and INCINERATE healthy 10-week old kittens. It's been going on for nearly 50 years.
An alleged secret government program that kills dozens of kittens in the
name of research has been exposed by a watchdog group who said the taxpayer
funded experiments have been going on for the last 50 years.
Justin Goodman, the vice president of the watchdog group White Coat Waste
Project, joined us on FOX 5 Wednesday, one day after Rep. Mike Bishop,
R-Mich., announced that he sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Sonny Perdue expressing concerns about the alleged killing of hundreds of
kittens at a U.S. Department of Agriculture test lab in Prince George's
County in Maryland.
In the letter, Bishop stated that hundreds of kittens are fed
parasite-infected raw meat for two to three weeks and then killed by
"incineration." Bishop said the USDA admits the kittens are healthy at the
end of the study.
In just 24 hours, more than 20,000 people from all over the country have
written letters to Congress demanding this practice come to an end.
Bishop said his office has yet to receive a direct response from Perdue, but
they are examining all their options, including legislation.
"It's a very vile process that should shock the conscience of anybody who
reads the report and these are U.S. taxpayer dollars that pay for this
experimental process," said Bishop. "There has got to be a better way and it
can't involve doing this to cats."
"Taxpayers are footing the bill even though veterinary authorities believe
these experiments are difficult, expensive and unethical and there's more
modern ways to be doing research," Goodman said.
The goal of the research is to try and prevent a parasite from being passed
on to human from cats, but Goodman said that it is very unlikely that
scenario would ever take place.
"It's very unlikely that a human will ever contract toxoplasmosis from a
cat," he said. "Most people get from it eating bad meat. It's a myth that
dates back to the '70s when this research started that people are getting it
from having contact with cats."
Goodman said that killing the healthy cats at the end of the experiments
is unnecessary and that the kittens could be put up for adoption.
"We've uncovered essentially a kitten slaughter house at the USDA being
funded by taxpayers," Goodman said, adding that the USDA breeds up to 100
kittens a year and has used "scaremongering" to defend the outdated tests.
"This project deserves to end up in the litter box of history," Goodman said
and added that he has received bipartisan support in Congress.
The current protocol for the project expires on May 31, so a resolution is
expected by the end of the month, according to Goodman.
This is my boy Mikey when he was six months old... four months older than
the kittens the USDA is slaughtering - from
Veda Stram
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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