Outrage follows discovery that taxpayer money funded cruel beagle experiments

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A good deal of public outrage has followed the discovery that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases division of the National Institute of Health conducted cruel experiments on beagles and used taxpayer money to fund the work. The White Coat Waste Project, a non-profit, made the discovery after requesting documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); the documents showed that approximately four dozen beagles were killed in the experiments, which took place between 2018 and early 2019 in Tunisia.

The experiments involved beagles being sedated, their heads placed in mesh boxes, and sand flies essentially eating them alive. White Coat Waste outlined what the experiments consisted of:

Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive. They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.”

Why were these experiments being conducted? In order to test an experimental drug on them after they were infected with lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne parasitic infection. As reported by Snopes, experiments on the vaccines were already conducted years before…which technically should have made the beagle testing unnecessary.

Members of Congress are looking for answers. A letter, created by Rep. Nancy Mace (R) and signed by both Democrats and Republicans, including Reps. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.), Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Scott Franklin (R-Fla.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Fred Keller (R-Pa.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Bill Posey (R-Fla.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), Maria E. Salazar (R-Fla.), Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), was sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Mace’s letter, directed to Dr. Anthony Fauci who heads up the division of NIH responsible for the testing, reads in part:

According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, and subsequent media coverage, from October 2018 until February 2019, NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer funds on drug tests involving 44 beagle puppies. The dogs were all between six and eight months old. The commissioned tests involved injecting and force-feeding the puppies an experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them,”

Adding:

Of particular concern is the fact that the invoice to NIAID included a line item for ‘cordectomy.’ As you are likely aware, a cordectomy, also known as ‘devocalization,’ involves slitting a dog’s vocal cords in order to prevent them from barking, howling, or crying,” the letter reads in reference to concerns about the “de-barking” of dogs.

So far, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has not responded to the inquiry about these experiments.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. These poor innocent beagles suffered tremendously Because of Fauci. I am VERY disappointed in him now will take everything he says with a spoon of salt. These “people” that actually follow through with these torture experiments will do ANYTHING to keep a job! They are a poor excuse for a human!!

  2. I use to respect this VILE NAZI MAGGOT. NOW? He ought to be HUNG UPSIDE DOWN after HIS vocal cords ARE cut, have MULTIPLE devices just like they put on the dogs, attached to HIS body and let these sand flies EAT HIM ALIVE. DAMN FREAK WASTING OUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO INTENTIONALLY TORTURE SENTIENT BEINGS FOR NO REASON! IT WAS NOT NECESSARY! IT WAS NOT REQUIRED! AND THE DRUG THEY “CLAIMED” THEY NEEDED THIS FOR, HAD ALREADY BEEN TESTED YEARS EARLIER!!!!!

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