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"
     https://t.co/wx7SERNwIx pic.twitter.com/UQjJ6SRTuA

     - 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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