White Coat Waste Project (WCW) investigators discovered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has wasted over $2.3 million of your tax dollars to INJECT BEAGLE PUPPIES WITH COCAINE!
When the horrific addiction tests are over, the taxpayer-funded white coats then kill the puppies or ship them to a new lab to suffer more abuse.
Please add your name to this petition urging Congress to end the NIH's cruel "Coke Hound" experiments.
According to documents obtained by WCW via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, experimenters sliced open 6-month-old beagle puppies and implanted "telemetry units" to monitor their vitals during painful tests.
Then, the puppies were trained to wear a jacket. But this wasn't a normal jacket. It wasn't a puppy raincoat or a cute dog costume. Instead, this jacket served a cruel purpose: to inject beagles with cocaine and other experimental compounds.
Through this special drug-injecting jacket, puppies were dosed with cocaine again and again for months, along with an 'experimental compound,' to see how the two drugs interacted.
The experiment, which ran from September 2020 to September 2021 (with a report due May 2022), was filmed, so experimenters could see if the puppies had any "adverse reactions" to the drugs.
We wish we could say this was the only drug experiment on puppies from NIH that we found, but sadly, that's not the case.
A second experiment, which ran from March 2020 until March 2021, also used special jackets to inject beagles with cocaine. Six puppies were used in these experiments.
Why do the same experiment twice? Why even do it once? We don't know — but what we do know is that American taxpayers are footing the bill. These two experiments cost taxpayers over $2.3 million.
At the end of the experiment, the 'coke hounds' were either killed or "recycled" — meaning they were shipped off to be used in other wasteful, cruel, and unnecessary experiments.
WCW is the only group lobbying Congress to cut the funding for NIH's cruel "Coke Hound" experiments, but they won't act without hard proof that people like you are behind them.
That's why your petition signature today is so urgent.
If you agree taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay for animal abuse like this, please take immediate action by petitioning Congress to end the NIH's horrific "Coke Hound" experiments!
