The federal government is spending $20 billion annual in taxpayer dollars for abusive animal research, and most Americans are unaware, says New York GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.
Malliotakis recently made the claim on the Just the News, No Noise television show on which she also said federal funds go toward inhumane experiments on animals in such countries as China and Russia.
“I don’t think most Americans know that their tax dollars are being used in this way to literally abuse animals with cruel, inhumane and unnecessary experiments that are not doing anything to improve public health,” she said.
“And it’s it’s actually crazy to learn that we have hundreds of thousands of animals that are locked up in cages that are in federal labs, or labs that we, the U.S. taxpayer, are funding cats, dogs, monkeys, rabbits, other animals, and that there these unnecessary tests are taking place all around the country, and we’re even funding experiments taking place overseas and in countries that dislike us.”
The congresswoman also pointed out that funding for animal research in other countries includes so-called “gain of function” experiments like those conducted in Wuhan, China – which by general definition is research to try to learn more about how a virus might mutate and spread. However, such experiments are also risky because a lab mistake could spawn a more lethal virus. […]
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