Pharmaron, a Chinese biotech firm, is currently testing pharmaceuticals on up to 300 beagles per week with the help of US taxpayer funding from the DOD and NIH, according to federal contracts released by animal rights group White Coat Waste Project. The dogs are forced to endure traumatic procedures repeatedly, having tubes shoved down their throats to force-feed them experimental drugs and be restrained for hours on end. The document also describes how the hundreds of pups, some as young as eight months, 'will be reused' throughout the study 'to save animals and decrease cost', while laying out criteria for weak, infected or those suffering organ dysfunction to be euthanized.
JOSH CHRISTENSON: The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for “cruel” drug experiments on beagles, according to a federal watchdog and Republican lawmakers who have sought sanctions on the biotech entity involved, citing concerning links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Pharmaron, a Chinese biotech firm, is currently testing pharmaceuticals on up to 300 beagles per week to learn how to better treat neurological disorders, with the help of US taxpayer funding from the DOD and NIH, according to federal contracts exclusively shared with The Post by the White Coat Waste Project.
The NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences received initial funding “specifically” from the Pentagon, the contract shows, to funnel $124,200 in total for the drug experiments on beagle puppies — as well as mice and rats — at the Beijing-based company’s lab between Sept. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2025…
The document goes on to describe how the hundreds of pups, some as young as eight months, “will be reused” throughout the study “to save animals and decrease cost,” while laying out criteria for weak, infected or those suffering organ dysfunction to be “euthanized.”
The nonprofit government watchdog group filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain the contract as part of an investigation last year into more than two dozen Chinese labs that had received more than $2 million for animal testing and other experiments.
“No animal lab in China should get another red cent of taxpayers’ money,” said Justin Goodman, senior vice president at government watchdog White Coat Waste Project, in a statement.
“They ghoulishly chose to abuse beagles because they’re ‘docile’ and ‘cute’ — the same qualities that make them loving pets. In 2020, President Trump famously cut (Dr. Anthony) Fauci’s grant to the Wuhan lab days after we exposed it,” he said.
“We’re urging him to pick up where he left off and defund all of China’s animal labs once and for all. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!” Goodman continued.
“It’s alarming that American tax dollars are still funding cruel dog testing and other animal labs in Communist China after our Select Subcommittee exposed dangerous experiments being conducted in places like the Wuhan Lab and cut that funding off,” Staten Island GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told The Post.
“I’m urging President Trump to stop the NIH and other agencies from sending our money to foreign labs that threaten our national security, public health, and animal welfare,” added Malliotakis, who has called for up to $20 billion in “dead-end” animal research to be cut off. SOURCE…
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