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You know what WCW is all about: Winning. You get how it works: You Give. We Win. They Survive.
So today, I bring you the scalp of the FDA’s #1 primate laboratory:
"Victory! White Coat Waste Project Triumphs As FDA Shuts Down Primate Testing Lab."
—One Green Planet
BIG WIN: We just ended ALL primate testing at the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research! 200+ monkeys were abused each year. Now it’s 0.
You and I make shutting labs down look easy. But this just doesn’t happen every day.
Since 2015, the big establishment groups have shut down a grand total of:
- 0 government primate labs.
- 0 monkey tests in the USA.
That’s an unacceptable failure.
I once worked in an animal lab. I witnessed these atrocities. Inspired to fight back, I founded the White Coat Waste Project for two reasons:
- End the culture of losing. Impact > intent.
- Get the U.S. government out of the animal testing business.
Today, because of you, we’re a BIG step closer on both. Thank you!
You Give. We Win. They Survive.
Anthony Bellotti
President & Founder
White Coat Waste Project
P.S. This is a MASSIVE win, and one we should be very proud of. But there is still a lot of work to do.
Over 9,000 primates remain imprisoned and abused in federal labs run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control, Dept. of Defense (DOD), Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), and FDA.
CONTACT CONGRESS: Let’s save them all! Please click here to send a pre-written email to your members of Congress asking them to cut taxpayer funding for ALL cruel and wasteful primate experiments.
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Victory! WCW Closes FDA's Biggest Primate Lab
- Big Win: WCW has ended ALL primate testing and breeding at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)—FDA’s biggest monkey lab.
- When WCW launched this campaign, NCTR experimentation was at an all-time high. 200+ monkeys were abused each year. Now it’s 0.
- No other group has shut down a government monkey lab—or any primate tests in the USA—in nearly a decade.
White Coat Waste (WCW) is a Project to get the U.S. government out of the monkey experimentation business.
Thanks to our hard-hitting campaigns and effective lobbying, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) biggest primate lab just completely shut down ALL monkey tests as well as its breeding program!
Back in 2016, we first uncovered that the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) in Arkansas was addicting baby monkeys to nicotine.
Your tax bill? $5.5 million.
In early 2018, following WCW’s campaign, the FDA canceled these tests and—for the first time in agency history—retired the surviving primates to a sanctuary.
But hundreds more monkeys were still being locked up and tortured at NCTR. The FDA was addicted to spending.
So we intensified our campaign to find and expose even more waste and abuse inside NCTR’s primate labs and united Republicans and Democrats like Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) to enact legislation to end it.
Our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigations and lawsuits revealed how baby monkeys were locked alone in tiny cages for years on end, forcibly addicted to amphetamine, ketamine, and Ritalin. Newborns were torn from their traumatized mothers and slaughtered before they’re a week old.
In one disturbing email, FDA white coats literally congratulate each other for torturing and killing one of these babies.
Heartless government white coats didn’t just pat themselves on the back for abusing these babies. They danced as they locked up the little monkeys in cages.
When we first launched this campaign, FDA’s primate experimentation at the NCTR lab was at its peak with over 200 monkeys abused each year—now it’s ZERO.
The FDA has just informed WCW that “NCTR does not currently have an NHP program. It was retired in December 2022”!
A majority of Democrats and Republicans agree: taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for FDA’s monkey business.
Now, thanks to WCW’s winning campaign, they won’t have to any longer.