DR Anthony Fauci is under fire for allegedly funding experiments where beagle puppies were locked in cages with hungry sandflies that would eat them alive. The non-profit organization White Coat Wa…
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DR Anthony Fauci is under fire for allegedly funding experiments where beagle puppies were locked in cages with hungry sandflies that would eat them alive.
The non-profit organization White Coat Waste Project has accused the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of funding a project that had beagles infected with disease-causing parasites in order to test an experimental drug.
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Non-profit organization White Coat Waste Project has accused Dr Anthony Fauci of using tax-payer money to fund cruel experiments on puppies in TunisiaCredit: Splash
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The White Coat Waste Project claims some of the dogs allegedly had their vocal cords removed to muzzle their barkingCredit: Alamy
The Hill reports that a bipartisan group of 24 House Representatives has written a letter demanding that Fauci answer to the claims by the nonprofit.
The organization claims that as many as 44 beagle puppies were used as part of the cruel experiment in a Tunisia laboratory.
Some of the dogs allegedly had their vocal cords removed to muzzle their barking.
"Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sandflies so that the insects could eat them alive," White Coat Waste told The Hill.
"They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies, they added.
The NIAID spent directed $1.68million in taxpayer money on these experiments, according to documents obtained by the non-profit.
The letter was signed by some Democrats such as Representatives Cindy Axne from Iowa and Jimmy Gomez from California.
However, it was mostly signed by Republican lawmakers, including Rep Nancy Mace from South Carolina, who's leading the effort.
"The dogs were all between six and eight months old. The commissioned tests involved injecting and force-feeding the puppies an experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them," said the lawmakers' letter, according to
Newsweek.
"Of particular concern is the fact that the invoice to NIAID included a line item for 'cordectomy.' As you are likely aware, a cordectomy, also known as 'devocalization,' involves slitting a dog's vocal cords in order to prevent them from barking, howling, or crying."
"This cruel procedure – which is opposed with rare exceptions by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, and others – seems to have been performed so that experimenters would not have to listen to the pained cries of the beagle puppies. This is a reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds."
Among the questions the lawmakers want answered is how many drug tests have been done on dogs since January 2018 and how much they have cost.
They also want to know why these tests were performed if the FDA does not require new drugs to be tested on dogs.
Fauci, who is also President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, has previously found himself under hot water after
being accused of lying to the American public after documents seemed to contradict his claims that his agency did not fund research of coronaviruses in a Wuhan, China, lab.
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The NIAID spent directed $1.68million in taxpayer money to these experiments, according to documents obtained by the non-profitCredit: Getty
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Lawmakers want to know why these tests were performed if the FDA does not require new drugs to be tested on dogs Credit: Reuters
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