US Stop Waste of Your Taxpayer Dollars

[Editorialist]

Can you believe the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) top animal testing official just outrageously claimed on TV that puppies who've been subjected to painful, surgically-induced heart attacks "enjoy" being forced to run on treadmills to stress their damaged hearts. All of this in response to our numerous phone calls and e-mails to stop the funding of such a watse of our taxpayers dollars.

Even though Congress just voted unanimously to de-fund the VA's dog experiments, but we need to keep up the pressure.

Politely call the VA at (202) 443-5681 or (443) 759-3455 and let them know that you do not want your tax dollars funding cruel and wasteful heart attack experiments on puppies and other painful dog experiments

 

[Editorialist]

Can you believe the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) top animal testing official just outrageously claimed on TV that puppies who've been subjected to painful, surgically-induced heart attacks "enjoy" being forced to run on treadmills to stress their damaged hearts. All of this in response to our numerous phone calls and e-mails to stop the funding of such a watse of our taxpayers dollars.

Even though Congress just voted unanimously to de-fund the VA's dog experiments, but we need to keep up the pressure.

Politely call the VA at (202) 443-5681 or (443) 759-3455 and let them know that you do not want your tax dollars funding cruel and wasteful heart attack experiments on puppies and other painful dog experiments

Following up on this matter here is what we need to do

A lot of controversy has been going on in my home state of Virginia concerning our local VA Hospital conducting useless and wasteful experiment on dogs funded by our Federal tax dollars as well as Virginia's tax dollars.. Our one Congressional Delegate to the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. was fortunate to get a bill introduced called the Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species Act of 2017 or the PUPPERS Act of 2017, Bill Number H.R.3197

If Congress wants to reduce wasteful spending and thus reduce our taxes this is one way to start

Even the researches themselves found out those experiments were a complete failure in attempting what they wanted to accomplish. Here are just a few of their comments

“Mice are mice, and people are people. If we look to the mouse to model every aspect of the disease for man and to model cures, WE’RE JUST WASTING OUR TIME—Dr. Clif Barry, Chief of Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease”

“We have moved away from studying human disease in humans. We all drank the kool-aid on that one, me included. The problem is that it hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem…We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies FOR USE IN HUMANS to understand disease biology in humans—Elias Zerhouni, former Director of the National Institutes of health.”



“[Researchers] are so ingrained in trying to cure mice that they forget that we’re TRYING TO CURE HUMANS—Dr. Ronald W. Davis, Stanford University.”



“The History of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades and IT SIMPLY DIDN’T WORK IN HUMANS—Dr. Richards Klauser, Former Director of the National Cancer Institute”



“Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs FAIL in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies—Michael O. Leavitt, former Secretary for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services”



“Patients have been too patient with basic research. Most of our best people work on lab animals, Not people. But this has NOT RESULTED IN CURES or even significantly helped most patients—Dr. Ralph Steinman, Immunologist at Rockefeller University”



Please write your Congressional delegation to support this legislation and not only help these poor animal but reduce your Federal and state tax load as well.

 

[Editorialist]

A lot of controversy has been going on in my home state of Virginia concerning our local VA Hospital conducting useless and wasteful experiment on dogs funded by our Federal tax dollars as well as now Virginia's tax dollars. State Senator Bill Stanley said “I was truly shocked when I learned state funds, state taxpayer money is going to the cruel and inhumane treatment of dogs all in the name of science,” and was appalled by the experiments, which have involved at least 39 dogs having pacemakers surgically implanted as part of a heart disease study. All of the dogs involved are eventually euthanized.

Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Commonwealth of Virginia contributed to the funding for the McGuire Medica Center’s dog experiments.

Sen. Stanley states he has already drafted legislation that would ban the use of Virginia taxpayer money for any research projects that harm dogs.

Virginians need to contact their state senators to co-sign and vote for this legislation once Senator Stanley releases his bill. Then you need to contact your House of Delegates member to contact Senator Stanley to find out how similar legislation under a companion bill can be introduced in the House of Delegates.

If you want your Federal and state taxes reduced this is one way of doing so.