{"id":765508,"date":"2021-10-29T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765508"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:50:47","slug":"hammer-time-animal-rights-organization-threatens-dr-fauci-with-lawsuit-by-over-gruesome-dog-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765508","title":{"rendered":"NO, IT&#8217;S NOT PETA: Dr. Fauci hammered by animal rights organization, threatened with lawsuit over gruesome dog experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Bearing witness to what you and your organization does to these animals is nothing short of criminal. It is time to end it, and now the world is watching. If it does not end immediately, Beagle Freedom Project will make sure it becomes criminal and those who perpetrate it will be punished by law.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>RT:<\/strong> Top White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci has come under fire by another animal rights group over reports of inhumane experiments on dogs. The Beagle Freedom Project hinted it would seek to make such experiments illegal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Devoted to fighting animal testing, the group has added its voice to the growing chorus against Dr. Fauci\u2019s record of animal cruelty. On Wednesday, the Beagle Freedom Project issued a subtle legal threat against the doctor\u2019s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), warning that \u201cif science and wasteful taxpayer spending are not enough to convince you [to cease experimenting on beagle puppies], perhaps legal changes will&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>One particularly horrific experiment Fauci\u2019s NIAID apparently paid for involved locking beagle puppies\u2019 heads in boxes with sand flies, which were given hour-long intervals to feast on the poor dogs\u2019 faces. Weary of the suffering dogs\u2019 helpless cries, the experimenters arranged to have them \u201cde-barked\u201d \u2013 a barbaric procedure known as a cordectomy&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>BFP founder and president Shannon Keith demanded Fauci and his organization \u201ccease the use of animals in research, end funding to those using animals, and release those animals who are currently in laboratories to Beagle Freedom Project&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cBearing witness to what you and your organization does to these animals is nothing short of criminal. It is time to end it, and now the world is watching,\u201d Keith&#8217;s letter continued, noting that \u201cif it does not end immediately, Beagle Freedom Project will make sure it becomes criminal and those who perpetrate it will be punished by law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The organization joins a bipartisan chorus of dog-lovers in denouncing Fauci\u2019s experimentation with beagles, initially exposed by White Coat Waste Project, a group that fights animal testing and the use of taxpayer dollars to fund it&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>They also demanded to know why Fauci was experimenting on dogs, given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had no requirement for such tests, and questioned whether the dogs had been made available for adoption following the brutal procedures&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>However, not everyone has been willing to throw the man once embraced as America\u2019s Doctor under the bus. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank praised Fauci\u2019s beagle research,&#8230; Insisting \u201cthe FDA requires researchers to experiment on non-rodent mammals&#8230; and for this study specifically recommended dogs,\u201d Milbank complained it was \u201cnecessary\u201d to use young dogs in the experiment to see whether the drugs being tested \u201cretard growth,\u201d and that euthanization was required \u201cso researchers can search for damage to organ systems&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In an apparent counter-argument to Milbank\u2019s claim about the FDA\u2019s animal experiment requirement, Keith mentioned the FDA Modernization Act, which was introduced to repeal a previous mandate requiring drugs be tested on animals. Fact-checkers also surfaced on Tuesday in Fauci\u2019s defense, with AP insisting he had not been involved in a study of \u201cmonkey threat responses.\u201d It\u2019s not clear why they focused on \u201cdebunking\u201d a secondary rumor involving monkey studies when the rest of the conversation swirling around Fauci references his dog experiments exclusively. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/538654-fauci-experiments-beagle-freedom-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>RT:<\/strong> Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined the chorus of US lawmakers lashing out at White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for funding \u2018hazardous\u2019 virus research and \u2018despicable\u2019 experiments on dogs&#8230; Members of Congress from both parties took a similar stand last week, demanding that Fauci explain why he has commissioned such testing and provide more details on NIAID-funded research using dogs. The lawmakers noted a line item in an invoice sent to the agency for \u201ccordectomy,\u201d a procedure in which the dogs\u2019 vocal cords were slit to prevent them from barking or crying out in pain during the experiments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThis is a reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds,\u201d the representatives said in a letter to Fauci&#8230; I cannot believe American tax dollars would go to treat those dogs the way those dogs are treated, and you know, I really think Fauci needs to be held accountable,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThese people, these bureaucrats, they don\u2019t get to just run wild and do whatever the hell they want to with our tax dollars&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has called for Fauci to be criminally investigated for lying to Congress. &#8230; Paul told Axios on HBO that Fauci should be fired \u201cjust for lack of judgment if nothing else.\u201d \u201cHe&#8217;s probably never going to admit that he lied. He&#8217;s going to continue to dissemble and try to work around the truth and massage the truth,\u201d the senator added&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>DeSantis suggested that the firings shouldn\u2019t end with Fauci. \u201cFrom funding gain-of-function research to treating these puppies with really unimaginable cruelty, I think that [the] whole lot of them needs to be cleaned out,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to be standing up for the American taxpayer and doing things ethically and not doing things like gain-of-function research \u2013 and certainly not abusing puppies&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Fauci, who ranks as the highest-paid employee in the federal government, oversees an NIAID budget that has risen to $6 billion annually. He repeatedly denied in congressional testimony that US-backed research in Wuhan involved gain-of-function. Last week, the NIH acknowledged otherwise, though it tried hard to maintain the distinction on a technicality. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/538445-desantis-fauci-mad-scientist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQ1VBhMAbvY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiEzDA4w26E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgx_a1XwIIg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT: Top White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci has come under fire by another animal rights group over reports of inhumane experiments on dogs. The Beagle Freedom Project hinted it would seek to make such experiments illegal. 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