Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not just committed to phasing out cruel and outdated animal testing, but it has now also approved a program for putting the retired laboratory animals up for adoption, following months of discussion with the non-profit White Coat Waste.
The adoption plan was unearthed in internal EPA documents by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and confirmed to White Coat Waste, the taxpayer watchdog that’s been relentless in exposing and dismantling government-funded animal torture.
Peer said in a press release, “There are approximately 20,000 animals in EPA labs, including rabbits, mice, and rats, which are primarily used to gauge the safety of environmental pollutants. The adoption program, which is debuting at EPA’s Research Triangle complex in North Carolina, is now offering zebrafish and rats for private adoption.”
Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder of White Coat Waste, celebrated the news in a statement:
“Reinstating the EPA’s animal testing phase-out and its lab animal retirement policy has been a top priority for White Coat Waste since day one of the new Trump Administration. We applaud President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin for keeping their promise to taxpayers and pet owners.
White Coat Waste worked with the first Trump Administration to eliminate tests on dogs, rabbits, and all other mammals by 2035 and to retire animal testing survivors. When the Biden Administration secretly revoked the 2035 deadline and killed rabbits slated for retirement, we blew the whistle—not the legacy animal groups who stayed silent while the killing resumed behind closed doors.
White Coat Waste led the only bipartisan campaign that united Congressional Republicans and Democrats to pass legislation directing the EPA to restore its phase-out timeline and retirement plans. From the beginning of the Trump Administration to today, White Coat Waste has been leading the campaign to cut EPA’s wasteful spending and to retire EPA’s lab survivors. We’re proud of our hard-fought win—and we won’t stop until the last animal is out.”
The decision to end animal testing builds on a push initiated under President Donald Trump’s first term, but squashed by the Biden administration.
In 2019, under the first Trump administration’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, the agency set a goal of a 30% reduction in mammal testing by 2025 and a complete phase-out by 2035. It was the most ambitious federal effort ever to stop bankrolling animal experiments, a move backed by millions of Americans who’d rather see their tax dollars fund pet adoptions than lab atrocities. But a 2023 WCW investigation exposed how Biden’s EPA quietly scrapped the plan.
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WCW uncovered that Biden’s EPA was forcing animals to choke on simulated wildfire smoke and gunpowder fumes from rifles and handguns, all in the name of studying “environmental justice.” Rabbits were slaughtered after their “service,” even though the organization offered to rehome them.
Biden’s idea of justice includes a furry body count, and PETA, the so-called animal saviors, were nowhere to be found.
In 2019, PETA tried to steal credit for Trump’s animal testing reforms, despite WCW doing the heavy lifting.
PETA’s audacity peaked in November 2021 when they tweeted the bald-faced lie, “Unfortunately, Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation.” Meanwhile, when Biden’s EPA gutted the deadlines, PETA didn’t just stay silent; they showered the agency with praise. Seems they were too busy rubbing elbows with politicians and getting celebrities naked for crass advertisements to notice the blood on the lab floor.
Let’s all hope, for the animals’ sake, that PETA is not involved in the adoption efforts, as they have killed over 80 percent of the animals brought to their Virginia shelter since 1998, according to calculations on PetaKillsAnimals.com. That’s not a shelter; it’s a slaughterhouse with better PR.
Trump’s EPA is proving that real change means saving animals, not staging photo ops or tweeting empty platitudes. PETA could learn a thing or two, but they’re probably too busy counting their kills.
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