{"id":777468,"date":"2025-01-30T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777468"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:18:31","slug":"u-s-dod-and-nih-still-collaborating-on-cruel-dog-experiments-in-chinese-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777468","title":{"rendered":"‘Seeing Red’: U.S. DoD and NIH still collaborating in funding cruel dog experiments in Chinese labs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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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.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

JOSH CHRISTENSON:<\/strong> The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for \u201ccruel\u201d 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The NIH\u2019s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences received initial funding \u201cspecifically\u201d from the Pentagon, the contract shows, to funnel $124,200 in total for the drug experiments on beagle puppies \u2014 as well as mice and rats \u2014 at the Beijing-based company\u2019s lab between Sept. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2025…<\/em><\/p>\n

The document goes on to describe how the hundreds of pups, some as young as eight months, \u201cwill be reused\u201d throughout the study \u201cto save animals and decrease cost,\u201d while laying out criteria for weak, infected or those suffering organ dysfunction to be \u201ceuthanized.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo animal lab in China should get another red cent of taxpayers\u2019 money,\u201d said Justin Goodman, senior vice president at government watchdog White Coat Waste Project, in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey ghoulishly chose to abuse beagles because they\u2019re \u2018docile\u2019 and \u2018cute\u2019 \u2014 the same qualities that make them loving pets. In 2020, President Trump famously cut (Dr. Anthony) Fauci\u2019s grant to the Wuhan lab days after we exposed it,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re urging him to pick up where he left off and defund all of China\u2019s animal labs once and for all. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!\u201d Goodman continued.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d Staten Island GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told The Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d added Malliotakis, who has called for up to $20 billion in \u201cdead-end\u201d animal research to be cut off. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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