{"id":75482,"date":"2024-08-03T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b257105117b0f7a39ed4cd54d0962466"},"modified":"2024-08-03T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:00:10","slug":"watchdog-claims-victory-over-pentagon-animal-testing-as-lawmakers-demand-accounting-of-taxpayer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/watchdog-claims-victory-over-pentagon-animal-testing-as-lawmakers-demand-accounting-of-taxpayer-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog claims victory over Pentagon animal testing as lawmakers demand accounting of taxpayer funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
After several lawmakers criticized the Pentagon for sanctioning painful experiments on dogs<\/span>, an animal-testing watchdog group said the Defense Department is only the latest agency to be exposed. Now, one-by-one, departments have been forced to put a stop to it. <\/p>\n One month after Fox News reported on the matter<\/span>, representatives Young Kim, R-Calif., and Donald Davis, D-N.C., led more than two dozen House members in demanding a specific accounting of how the Pentagon spent taxpayer money in this way.<\/p>\n At the same time, a spokesperson for the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), an organization dedicated to ending the taxpayer-funded experimentation on animals, said he hopes the new attention, as well as a rider in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), will make the Pentagon the second known federal agency to halt painful testing on animals. <\/p>\n Justin Goodman, WCW\u2019s vice president, said in addition to the experimentation highlighted in June, Pentagon-sanctioned testing has also reportedly<\/span> been “electroshocking” cats to study erectile dysfunction.<\/p>\n PENTAGON’S \u2018BARBARIC\u2019 DRUG TESTING ON DOGS RAISES HACKLES WITH PET-LOVING LAWMAKERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n