Remember the ‘Louisville 80’? Remember the kitten treadmill torture at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs?
Friend, we’ve SHUT IT DOWN!
See below. It’s not the first kitten lab we’ve closed, either. No other group has shut down a single government cat lab in the last 40 YEARS!
This is the winning team, Friend. So long as you’re on it, we’re going to lay waste to all of Uncle Sam’s cat labs… and send government cat testing to the litter box of history.
You Give. We Win. They Survive.
Anthony Bellotti
President & Founder
White Coat Waste Project
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Big Win: WCW Ends the VA’s Kitten Lab in Louisville
The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has been leading a historic campaign to end wasteful spending at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA).
WCW recently shut down the VA’s last painful dog lab. We’ve been making rapid progress to end its taxpayer-funded cat labs, too.
Now, we’ve laid waste to another government cat-a-strophe: the VA’s $1.3 million kitten lab in Louisville, Kentucky!
In December 2019, WCW submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the VA’s photos, videos, invoices, veterinary records, and grant applications.
We exposed how the Louisville lab bought dozens of healthy female kittens for $881 apiece.
VA white coats damaged their spines and forced the disabled cats to navigate obstacle courses.
The survivors were then handed over to another lab where white coats mutilated kittens’ legs and cut out their brain stems…
…while the cats were still alive.
“Decerebration” is a fancy term for severing a living cat’s brain stem and turning her into a zombie.
After that, the decerebrated zombie kittens were forced to run on treadmills.
The Louisville lab planned to waste 80 kittens.
Cats like “Pecan” (gov’t ID #15KQC4)—a female mackerel tabby who was “eager for head rubs and chin rubs.”
And a “very friendly and affectionate” female grey tabby (gov’t ID #19008).
Now, following WCW’s campaign, the Louisville lab is getting out of the taxpayer-funded treadmill torture business!
WCW united Republicans and Democrats to put the Louisville lab in the hot seat.
This big win also follows our hard-hitting campaign, which:
- Passed legislation to defund the VA’s kitten experiments.
- Introduced the CATS ACT to permanently defund VA’s wasteful spending.
- Organized a national grassroots army of liberty lovers and kitten lovers.
- Got a big boost from “Kitten Lady” Hannah Shaw.
- Enacted a historic phase-out of all VA cat, dog, and primate testing by 2025.
Over the last 40 months, WCW shut down the VA’s $5 million Los Angeles kitten lab, ended $4.9 million experiments at the VA’s Cleveland lab, and secured the release of some survivors.
We also annihilated USDA’s $22 million Kitten Slaughterhouse—the federal government’s largest cat lab—and retired all of the survivors.
No other organization has shut down a single government cat lab in the last 40 years!
This win puts us closer than ever to sending all of Uncle Sam’s wasteful cat labs to the litter box of history.
Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!