All Animal Labs in Russia are funded by the U.S.

Most Americans, including myself, were blissfully unaware of the enormous amounts of tax dollars that our government had been sending abroad to pay for animal torture in strange labs prior to the pandemic.

Despite how good I thought our public was, I still didn’t contain a corruption bingo card that included puppy and kitten torture. Stupid me.

However, the White Coat Waste Project( where I am a brother ) has contributed significantly to the spread of acceptance of these realities. Several FOIAs( Freedom of Information Acts ) issued by the organization have exposed atrocities in labs all over the world, most notably in the infamous Wuhan lab.

Still, while the pressure campaign to defund these experiments has risen, the actions by the federal government have been mostly piecemeal—until now. President Biden recently issued an executive order halting the flow of all US dollars for Russian research as the US continues its proxy war in the conflict between Russian President Vladmir Putin against Ukraine. And as a result, the NIH announced it will cease all funding for work in Russian labs.

While the reasoning for the action may be wrapped up in foreign conflicts and US involvement we disagree with at BASEDPolitics, we can always celebrate any cease in government funding—particularly for inhumane projects like animal torture.

And the action is no small feat. In 2021, White Coat Waste (WCW) revealed the NIH was sending tax dollars to Kremlin-run Russian animal labs (as well as hundreds of other foreign labs) for experiments with practically no oversight. No surprise there. 

The NIH sent an additional$ 770,000 to the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, owned by the Russian authorities, in 2022, just one week after Russia invaded Ukraine, to conduct cat experiments. In the experiments, strong cats were subjected to brain damage, spine electrode implants, and treadmill walking. The duration of that revenue was anticipated to be May 2023.

Get sense of it, please. We’re’re paying for the torture of animals in a nation with which we are waging substitute war? Sincerely, that tracks for our public.

As far as we are aware, this is the first instance of the public giving complete freedom to defund laboratory across the nation.

Anthony Bellotti, the founder and president of the WCW, stated,” Over 75 % of Republicans and Democrats concur that citizens don’t be required to pay millions of dollars to Putin’s’s white coats to torment animals in useless experiments.

These kinds of activities are the responsibility of anyone who supports small authority and the rising tax burden on the American people. Given this many money and power, it is obvious that any government may turn corrupt and use the income it collects for malicious ends.

This is just one of the many arguments made by our members for a very constrained federal government that can only get involved in very specific issues. Animal testing and torture were unquestionably not one of them, nor were the several medical projects the government is currently working on. And when you permit the government to intervene out of” feel good” considerations, they will unavoidably start acting in this manner as well.

It’s’s good that funding for these Russian labs has stopped. But it’s’s unacceptable that we continue to support the same thing in many nations, especially adversaries like China.

Fellow Hannah Cox works for the White Coat Waste Project.

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