The White Coat Waste Project was founded in 2011 by a group of individuals with serious concerns about the growth of wasteful animal experiments paid for with our taxes. The Project is built on three core values: we’re pro-taxpayer, pro-transparency in government, and pro-animal welfare.

 

 

So what constitutes waste?  In 2009, the Obama administration’s “economic stimulus” package (a.k.a. the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) spent well over $100,000 to study the effects of cocaine on monkeys at Winston-Salem College. The result? We “learned” that cocaine is bad for you and it only took the government 40 years of testing cocaine on animals (and over one hundred million dollars in the process) to figure this one out. 

 

It gets worse. For nearly 30 years, Marilyn Carroll of the University of Minnesota has been addicting animals to all sorts of illegal, recreational drugs. For example, during the last decade alone, the government spent over $3.6 million on her experiments to study the effects of heroin, crystal meth, and Angel Dust on menstruating monkeys. Who picked up the bill for these wasteful big-government experiments?