Cut the FDA's Dog Testing Red Tape!

Each year, approximately 20,000 beagle puppies — some as young as one week old — are tortured and killed in maximum-pain experiments to satisfy Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug testing requirements.

Although superior non-animal testing alternatives exist, the FDA still mandates drug companies to perform tests on puppies because an outdated regulation from the 1930s explicitly demands them. 

Sign this petition to help White Coat Waste Project (WCW) cut the FDA's cruel, wasteful, and counterproductive dog testing red tape. 

Here's what you need to know:

• As many as one-third of all dogs subjected to experiments in the United States are abused by drug makers for no other reason than to fulfill outdated FDA guidance documents.
• The government's own data shows that over 90 percent of drugs that pass these FDA-mandated animal tests fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous.
• Each failed drug costs thousands of animals' lives, years of R&D, and hundreds of millions of dollars, in turn slowing medical innovation and driving up drug prices for patients.

For all of these reasons, drug makers themselves often oppose killing dogs and other animals for these outdated, misleading, and expensive tests.

But when they try to use superior, alternative technologies—like human-organs-on-chips which are often faster, cheaper, and more accurate than dog tests—the FDA often refuses to permit it and even punishes them for challenging the requirement.

TAKE ACTION! Add your name to help WCW #CutFDARedTape and save 20,000+ puppies from dying in painful and unnecessary experiments each year!

Pumped with massive doses of experimental drugs daily for up to a year. Mouths taped shut. Foaming at the mouth, convulsions, blindness, and paralysis. Then killed.

Pharmaceutical companies are forced to do this and worse to dogs for regulatory approval, according to hundreds of new drug applications submitted to the FDA and analyzed by WCW.

Broken bureaucracy kills beagles. So WCW launched the first national campaign to cut FDA dog testing red tape.

It's a simple proposition: Alternatives to dog testing did not exist more than 80 years ago, but they do now. If the FDA allowed them, more effective drugs would come to market faster, at a lower cost to taxpayers, and 20,000 fewer puppies would be abused next year… and every year after that.

It's a win-win-win. If you agree, please join WCW's fight to #CutFDARedTape by signing this petition! Together, we can spare dogs, stop waste, and save lives.