Major Win for Cats! 
 
Thank you for helping us fight dog and cat tests at the Pentagon and Georgia Tech. We’ll keep you updated. Now, I’d like to share this: 
 
“Cat experiments stopped at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.” 
— WJLA (ABC7) 
 
WE WON! WCW just SHUT DOWN the VA's Stokes kitten lab! And it’s the year’s most important win for cats: 

• Blocked the Biden Admin’s plan to restart government kitten testing 
• Saved the “Stokes 7”—that’s seven more lives! 
• Ended the VA’s entire feline experimentation program  

First, we ended cat testing at the USDA. Now, we’ve laid waste to the VA. More below. 
 
WCW has waged the most effective effort to end cat experimentation in American history. 
 
The Stokes 7 thank you. I do too. 
 
You Give. We Win. They Survive. 
 
Anthony Bellotti 
President & Founder 
White Coat Waste Project 
 
P.S. See below. We’re the most effective organization for getting cats out of labs. Over the last forty (!) years, the big establishment animal protection groups have shut down zero federal feline labs. It’s a total CAT-astrophe. It’s a disgrace. Here’s how YOU and I are ending the culture of losing.
 
P.P.S. Cats are family. I personally adopted two survivors after WCW ended kitten testing at the USDA—the fed’s #1 feline lab. Now we’ve defeated the VA. It would mean a lot to me if you’d sign this new petition to end it at NIH next. Thx—AB 
 
End NIH Cat Labs >>
WCW ended cat testing at the USDA and VA. To clean out NIH next, please demand Congress pass this bill. 
 
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Victory: WCW Saves the #Stokes7 & Ends ALL VA cat testing 

• Following a WCW campaign, the Department of Veterans Affairs has canceled a wasteful plan for painful medical device experiments in which seven cats—the Stokes 7—would have wiring implanted into their legs and backs, risking paralysis and death. 
• Since WCW first exposed the Stokes 7 in July 2023, WCW has lobbied Congress, ran billboards, TV, and online ads that reached over 4 million taxpayers, and drove over 2,000 phone calls and 338,000 letters from pet owners to Capitol Hill, the VA, and the White House to stop the experiment. 
• After years of criticism from WCW, taxpayers, and Congress, the VA has finally admitted the $50,000 cat tests are unnecessary even though Biden VA Secretary Denis McDonough personally signed off on them and the VA claimed it was “necessary, as there is no other viable model available” and that it “is a justified use of taxpayer funds.” 
• This WCW victory marks the end of all dog and cat testing at the VA. 
• WCW is the only animal protection organization to shut down federal feline labs in at least 40 years.  

White Coat Waste (WCW) is a project to get the government out of the cat testing business. In May, we exposed and exterminated a misguided plan by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to force-feed ten tiny kittens scrambled mouse brains and then kill the healthy cats. 
 
Now, following a WCW investigation and vigorous campaign, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has canceled a wasteful plan for painful medical device experiments in which seven cats—the Stokes 7—would have wiring implanted into their legs and backs, risking paralysis and death. 
 
Here’s how we did it: 
 
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