HISTORIC EVENT: Listen to Justin Goodman of White Coat Waste Project explain that VA have stopped testing on cats

The X video interview pretty much explains it all. White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is a charitable campaigning group in America. Their objective is to stop the waste of tax dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal experiments including experiments on domestic cats conducted by various government agencies including in this instance by the Department of Veterans Affairs, I guess to improve knowledge on rehabilitating military vets who've been injured in conflicts. 

Goodwin says that American politicians in general want to stop these experiments. WCW have campaigned and lobbied for a long time and this is a break through. They hope for more success with other agencies.

Animal testing should be a thing of the past. It does not sit well with modern thinking about animal welfare. The vast majority of the public - I would argue - also want an end to it.

"This is a monumental moment because this marks the complete end to dog and cat testing at the VA. This is the first federal agency that has completely eliminated dog and cat testing and now we are hoping we can get other agencies and get Congress to follow suit and do it elsewhere," says Justin Goodman with White Coat Waste Project.

HISTORIC EVENT: Listen to @JustinRGoodman with @WhiteCoatWaste about discovering the @DeptVetAffairs was about to start experimenting on cats again. How a huge public push & federal lawmakers coming together aided in halting the research. pic.twitter.com/dzxWzK0eRE

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U.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis of New York, co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, pushed to end the VA experiments.

I think taxpayers would be very upset to know their money is being used not on just unnecessary experiments but on inhumane ones that really torture these poor innocent animals," added U.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY).

Justin Goodman is the Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project (WCW).

Associated: White Coat Waste Project campaign success. Congress votes to defund Pentagon’s dog and cat experiments.

If you'd like to learn more about the work of WCW and their successes, CLICK HERE.

There are a number of federal agencies that continue to do this so we need to make sure every agency uses these alternative methods to protect animals and as I said early to protect the taxpayer," says U.S. Representative Ken Calvert (R-CA).

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