The Trump administration’s Environmental Safety Company (EPA) has pledged to remove animal testing, reinstating a plan initially launched throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period.
This choice comes after taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Venture (WCW) uncovered the Biden administration’s cancellation of the sooner initiative, which aimed to part out testing on mammals by 2035.
The unique 2019 plan, underneath then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, meant to implement a 30% discount in mammal testing by 2025 and an entire elimination by 2035.
This plan was hailed as probably the most complete effort in U.S. authorities historical past to finish taxpayer-funded animal experiments, which is supported by tens of millions of Individuals throughout the political spectrum. Sadly, a WCW investigation in 2023 revealed that the Biden EPA had quietly canceled the plan and resumed assessments on animals.
White Coat Waste uncovered how the Biden EPA was doing animal experiments for “environmental justice,” forcing animals to inhale simulated wildfire smoke and emissions from rifles and handguns.
The company additionally killed rabbits after they had been used for testing, regardless of WCW providing to rehome them.
Reinstating this coverage has been one in all WCW’s top priorities for the brand new Trump Administration.
Underneath the management of newly appointed Administrator Lee Zeldin, the EPA will now revive and implement the phase-out.
In an announcement to the Washington Times, the EPA stated, “Underneath President Trump’s first time period, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to cut back animal testing and dedicated to lowering testing on mammals by 30 % by 2025 and to remove it utterly by 2035. The Biden Administration halted progress on these efforts by delaying compliance deadlines. Administrator Zeldin is wholly dedicated to getting the company again on observe to eliminating animal testing.”
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis stated in an announcement supplied to The Gateway Pundit:
“I’ve been working to revive President Trump’s plan to remove the EPA’s merciless and outdated animal testing. I applaud the dedication of my good friend EPA Administrator Zeldin to carry President Trump’s plan again after it was senselessly canceled by the Biden-Harris Administration. Reinstating the Trump EPA plan will save tens of tens of millions of taxpayer {dollars} and spare numerous canines, rabbits and different animals from painful and pointless experiments that may be changed with fashionable options which might be simpler than antiquated animal testing strategies.”
In 2019, PETA tried to take credit for the unique Trump administration win even though it was because of the work of WCW.
Much more egregiously, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, in November 2021, PETA lied and tweeted, “Sadly, Trump did nothing to cease animal experimentation.”
Sadly, Trump did nothing to cease animal experimentation. However proper now, Biden has the chance to just do that. He should appoint a brand new NIH director who’s competent, cares about precise science, and doesn’t needlessly abuse animals. https://t.co/Nchsc5jlj9
— PETA (@peta) November 10, 2021
When the Biden EPA first quietly eliminated the 2025 and 2035 deadlines from its animal testing plan in 2021, PETA not solely didn’t point out it however praised the agency.
Regardless of the high-profile press about WCW uncovering the rollback of the Trump plan, PETA by no means stated a phrase to the press or its members about Biden’s EPA canceling the phaseout and plans to retire the animals. Their only reference to any change was, “In 2019, the EPA launched a Work Plan (up to date in 2021) outlining concrete steps it could take to cut back toxicity testing on animals and prioritize non-animal testing strategies.”
As an alternative, PETA continued pouring praise on the company all through the Biden administration.
Not like the leftist lunatics over at PETA, White Coat Waste has been stacking up the wins with Trump and DOGE.
Because of WCW’s investigations, President Trump has now lower 10 NIH grants that funded transgender animal experiments.
Elon Musk and Joe Rogan recently discussed WCW’s investigations of NIH funding for transgender animal experiments and Fauci’s beagle assessments—a story Gateway Pundit first broke in 2021—as egregious examples of presidency waste. Musk commented that these taxpayer-funded labs are “mutilating animals in demented research which might be just like the worst factor you may think about from a horror present.”
