WARNING: graphic content below. If you're squeamish, don't read it.
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(Your tax dollars at work. Sickening.)

From: https://tinyurl.com/yvs9mjau (thegatewaypundit.com)

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NIH Betrays Promise to End Fauci-Era Animal Cruelty by Renewing Horrific Kitten
Heart Failure Experiments, Slaughtering Dozens More Innocent Kittens with YOUR
Tax Dollars

By Cassandra MacDonald Jul. 26, 2025 6:00 pm

In a shocking betrayal and show of government hypocrisy and waste, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly renewed deadly heart failure
experiments on kittens, despite public pledges from top officials to "phase
out" such barbaric testing on cats and dogs.

This explosive revelation comes from an exclusive investigation by the
White Coat Waste Project (WCW), which uncovered how the NIH is reviving
Fauci-era pet torture labs while claiming to "work tirelessly" to end
them.

"Within days of @NIH publicly claiming it is `working tirelessly' to
`phase out' dog and cat labs, the agency extended a grant that's paying
experimenters to surgically induce heart failure in healthy 8-week-old
kittens, forcing them to suffer for months, and then killing them"
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- White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) July 25, 2025

According to documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA), experimenters at Temple University, in collaboration with the
University of Pennsylvania are taking adorable 8- to 10-week-old kittens,
cutting open their tiny chests, prying apart their ribs, and surgically
implanting bands around their aortas to deliberately restrict blood flow
and induce painful heart failure.

These poor creatures are then subjected to months of suffering, two or
four months, to be exact, before being killed in the most horrific way
imaginable: by cardiectomy, which means cutting out their still-beating
hearts while they're alive. And now, despite the project being set to
expire on July 31, 2025, the NIH has extended it for another full year,
dooming 25 more kittens to this nightmare.

This isn't some isolated incident; it's part of a long pattern of
NIH-funded animal abuse that WCW has been relentlessly exposing. Temple
University alone has drained over $39 million from taxpayers since 1984
for similar cat and kitten experiments.

Past horrors uncovered by WCW include sewing kittens' eyes shut to cause
vision disorders and even sawing off cats' legs for prosthetic limb tests,
some of which were outsourced to Russia. Remember, this is the same NIH
that funneled money into Wuhan labs under Anthony Fauci's watch, and now
they're doubling down on pet cruelty right here at home.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer have
been caught red-handed. After intense pressure from WCW, including a
bipartisan Congressional letter, they publicly claimed they were "working
tirelessly" to phase out dog and cat testing. But actions speak louder
than words. No grants have been cut, no bans enacted, no deadlines set,
and instead, they're renewing these lethal kitten tests and even funding
brand-new beagle labs.

Earlier this month, eleven members of Congress signed a letter requesting
that the National Institutes of Health end its funding for barbaric dog
and cat experiments approved under Dr. Anthony Fauci. Writing to
Bhattacharya, the House lawmakers, led by Republican Rep. Paul Gosar,
demanded the immediate cancellation of all Fauci-funded dog and cat
experiments. Citing WCW's evidence, they blasted the NIH for "disturbing"
tests, including a $10 million UNC-Chapel Hill project that breeds
hemophiliac puppies only to slaughter them post-experiment. "We are
sending this request with considerable urgency," the lawmakers wrote,
signaling a zero-tolerance stance on the NIH's animal cruelty.

The letter cited Gateway Pundit's exclusive report about how the NIH,
under Director Bhattacharya, has renewed millions in funding for
controversial experiments, including THC tests on monkeys at Harvard, tick
bites on beagle puppies, and Anthony Fauci's notorious "Monkey Island."

"Ongoing investigations by the non-profit group White Coat Waste have
documented how the NIH continues to renew and fund dozens of Dr. Fauci's
disturbing experiments on dogs and cats in labs around the world, in
which animals are infested with insects, infected with viruses,
force-fed experimental drugs, and killed," the letter states.

Gosar laid out three ironclad demands to dismantle Dr. Anthony Fauci's
legacy of cruel animal testing. First, they requested that the NIH
immediately cancel all active funding for dog and cat experiments approved
under his tenure. Second, they insisted on a blanket prohibition of all
new NIH grants for harmful dog and cat testing, aiming to choke off future
atrocities. Finally, they demanded full transparency, asking the NIH to
disclose all current taxpayer funding for these experiments, exposing the
scope of the agency's gruesome practices to public scrutiny.

While other agencies, such as the Pentagon and Navy, have caved to WCW's
pressure and banned dog and cat testing, canceling multimillion-dollar
contracts for experiments like those on cat constipation, holdovers from
the Obama and Biden Administrations appear to be stubbornly clinging to
their refusal to make this kind of progress at the NIH.

Lawmakers working with WCW have now introduced the Preventing Animal Abuse
and Waste (PAAW) Act and the TRANS MICE Act to defund these disturbing
experiments and save innocent animals.

It's time for Congress and the Trump Administration to step up, cut off
the NIH's funding spigot for these atrocities, and hold Bhattacharya and
Kleinstreuer accountable for their lies.

WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any
government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs
in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.
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