US Tax-Payer Funds Bought Cats & Dogs From China’s Wet Markets For Use In Animal Experiments
The shocking exposé also revealed the US government has given millions of tax-dollars to help fund cruel animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the controversial lab linked to the coronavirus.
A shocking report has revealed that the US has been helping to fund China’s wet markets, as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the controversial lab that has been linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
An investigation by campaign group White Coat Waste Project (WCW), uncovered that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) used taxpayer dollars to buy dozens of cats and dogs at China’s wet markets for use in lab experiments back in the US.
Cruel experiments carried out in USDA labs saw the agency buy live animals at wet markets in China, have the animals slaughtered, and then ship their body parts over to the US. Some of the slaughtered animals were used in a particularly infamous experiment dubbed “kitten cannibals”, where live cats were fed cat meat.
Thankfully, groups like the White Coat Waste Project managed to shut down those “bizarre and useless experiments”, but the current implications have once again raised the issue - and danger - of US taxpayers money being spent on cruel animal experiments.
But that’s not all: the WCW also exposed that the National Institutes for Health (NIH) has spent millions of tax dollars funding animal testing at the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) - the lab that has been linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
The US government agency awarded a $3.7million research grant to the lab in Wuhan, which has been condemned for cruel animal experiments.
The White Coat Waste Project explained that “some of the recent taxpayer-funded animal tests at the WIV that we’ve found involve coronavirus-infected bats being captured in caves and experimented on, coronavirus being grown in labs and injected into piglets, and animals having holes drilled into their heads and being electroshocked.”
Although the details are shocking, the exposé has thankfully resulted in real change: a week after WCW’s revelations went viral in mainstream media, President Trump publicly committed to ending taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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