A bipartisan measure focusing on most ache exams on cats and dogs was launched on Thursday, the latest in a string of efforts to curb tax greenback assist for animal testing.
While the “PAAW Act” has a cute-sounding identify, it might have a really severe impact, in keeping with the sponsors, Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). It would finish most federal funding of exams on cats and dogs, in keeping with a synopsis supplied to Secrets.
The Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste Act targets spending by the National Institutes of Health and follows on the heels of profitable bids championed by the White Coat Waste Project and different animal rights teams to curb animal testing.
“As a dog owner, I’m appalled by the inhumane practices that have been conducted using taxpayer dollars. I’m happy to have worked across the aisle with Rep. Mace to choose paws over politics and put a stop to unnecessary government experiments on cats and dogs,” Moskowitz mentioned.
Added Mace, “As an animal lover, I’ve been disturbed to learn the scale and scope of barbaric and unnecessary dog and cat experiments funded by the National Institutes of Health. Americans across the political spectrum have been horrified to learn their tax dollars are being used to subsidize cruelty to thousands of puppies and kittens in labs every year. The PAAW Act will ensure taxpayers’ hard-earned money is not wasted on outdated and cruel experiments on pets.”
According to essentially the most recent federal studies, over 62,000 cats and dogs are locked in U.S. labs, most of that are National Institutes of Health-funded. Nearly 18,000 of those dogs and cats have been subjected to painful experiments, together with most ache exams with no ache aid, mentioned WCWP.
The group, which has focused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the previous director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in its campaigns, final month helped to win congressional approval of laws to cease the Veterans Affairs division from conducting exams on America’s pets.
“From Fauci’s fly infestation tests on beagles to the Kremlin’s kitten crippling experiments, our investigations continue to expose how the NIH wastes millions of tax dollars in the U.S. and abroad to abuse pets in painful, dead-end experiments,” mentioned Justin Goodman, senior vp on the White Coat Waste Project.
“We applaud Reps. Mace and Moskowitz for introducing the bipartisan PAAW Act and their outstanding leadership to cut the NIH’s taxpayer-funded cruelty to canines and kittens. When it comes to painful and unnecessary dog and cat testing, wasteful NIH spending is the problem, and the PAAW Act is the solution. Stop the money. Stop the madness!” he added.
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Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), the co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, and Troy Nehls (R-TX) are additionally authentic co-sponsors.
“While we continue our fight to end cruel animal testing altogether, I’m proud to join my colleagues in supporting this bipartisan legislation that requires more oversight over NIH-sponsored animal research and prohibits studies that cause significant pain and distress to our most vulnerable animal populations,” Malliotakis mentioned.
