SCIENCEWASHINGTON CITY PAPER
It’s Time to Empty America’s Cat Labs
12,000 cats are confined in U.S. taxpayer-funded laboratories, with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) being a major funder of feline experimentation. White Coat Waste (WCW) has exposed abusive practices, including experiments causing degenerative brain diseases in kittens, and successfully pushed for legislation banning cat testing in the Navy and cutting federal funding for such experiments. Efforts like Violet’s Law aim to allow adoption of lab cats, with bipartisan support in Congress.
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