(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The U.S. government has reportedly been sending millions of taxpayers’ dollars to shady laboratories in China and Russia to fund cruel and dangerous experiments on animals.
Despite the concerns that Chinese research created the COVID-19 virus and started the pandemic, more than $15 million in government grants has funded animal experiments in foreign labs from 2013 to this year, records indicated, the Daily Mail reported.
Gathering dangerous avian flu viruses from China’s wet markets and infecting chickens, ducks and guinea pigs to “supercharge” the viruses and make them more transmissible was one of the U.S.-sponsored research activities.
The National Institutes of Health, America’s primary agency for medical and public health research and response, awarded 15 grants totaling $3.6 million from fiscal years 2021 to 2023 to institutions in China that perform experiments on animals. The NIH also provided at least 92 sub-awards worth $12.5 million to institutions in China.
The organization also spent an estimated $140 million on animal experiments in 29 countries, federal spending data from 2020 revealed.
White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group that was the first to discover the NIH sent millions of dollars to unmonitored and dangerous animal experiments in China and Russia, has been fighting to force the government to stop sending American tax dollars overseas to fund virus and drug testing on animals, according to the Daily Mail.
So far, their efforts have been successful because they were able to force the Biden administration to defund all animal labs in Russia earlier this year.
To defund all animal labs in China and other countries, WCWP teamed up with Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., to introduce the bipartisan Accountability in Foreign Animals Research Act.
“Our tax dollars should never be sent to state-run labs in adversary nations like Russia and China that threaten our national security,” McClain said.
“My AFAR Act would prohibit tax dollars from being shipped to animal testing labs in any countries that are deemed foreign adversaries.”
WCWP Senior Vice President Justin Goodman shared the sentiment.
“Our Worldwide Waste campaign has defunded the Wuhan lab, Putin’s kitten tests, and all Russian animal labs, but we’ve uncovered how dozens of animal labs in China are still eligible for more taxpayer money,” he said.
“Over 70% of taxpayers — Republicans and Democrats alike — oppose this reckless spending… Stop the money. Stop the madness.”
