RIGHT SPEAK: LAB FURY Kremlin Cat Lab, Monkey Island & Drugged Beagles… Inside Cruel US-Funded Labs That Trump Wants to Axe After Covid ‘leak’; Escaped Primates from SC Facility Shine Light On Animal Testing — and Cruelty, and other C-Virus related stories

LAB FURY Kremlin cat lab, Monkey Island & drugged beagles… Inside cruel US-funded labs that Trump wants to axe after Covid ‘leak’:

A firm under fire over the origins of Covid has received millions of dollars from the US government

DONALD Trump is set to axe "stupid spending" on cruel lab tests in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic - and save millions.

The US government has dished out cash to a Kremlin-run lab, Chinese labs linked to the military, and Monkey Island - where 3,000 monkeys are bred for experiments with Covid and other viruses.

In 2022 and 2023, $3.6million of taxpayer cash was spent on a project to get monkeys hooked on cocaine and forcing them to gamble.

Another $5.2million was handed out to inject beagle puppies with cocaine.

And a firm under fire over the origins of Covid has received millions from the US government for risky virus experiments - including at a lab in Wuhan, China.

But Trump's incoming administration has signalled a crackdown on the funding of experiments.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who will head up the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk, said funding for projects that do not benefit American citizens "needs to end next year".

He said: "If it doesn’t advance the interests of American citizens, we’re putting it on the chopping block.

"Amazingly, there are a number of programs whose authorisation from Congress has *already expired* yet $$$ still flows out the door.

"That needs to end next year."

Anthony Bellotti, the founder and president of the White Coat Waste Project, said they are "thrilled that Vivek and Elon are targeting stupid spending".

He added: "A growing majority of taxpayers... oppose wasteful, dangerous, and cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and they shouldn't be forced to foot the bill.

"DOGE can save billions of tax dollars and millions of animals by cutting the federal animal testing." --->READ MORE HERE

Commentary: Escaped primates from SC facility shine light on animal testing — and cruelty:

South Carolina news has been circling the globe recently: On Nov. 6, 43 primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee. As of Tuesday, 39 of the escaped monkeys had been recaptured.

The research center's website says it conducts "research projects for government, university, and private industry clients with cynomolgus, rhesus, and capuchin monkeys.” About 4,000 monkeys are at the main facility, and roughly 3,000 are at a second facility nearby.

The ongoing story of escaped primates sheds much-needed light upon man's continuing inhumanity and the abuse of animals. Animals are sentient beings. Have we forgotten the work of primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall? Primates have a high level of intelligence; they understand language and can communicate. They remember us. In return, we continue to harm them, conduct experiments upon them, give them diseases, imprison them and cause immeasurable physical and emotional pain.

I know that I am not the only person who was rooting for the monkeys that escaped and hoping that if captured they would be sent to Born Free USA primate sanctuary in Texas, where CEO Angela Grimes offered to take the monkeys that experienced a taste of freedom. I am not fooled by Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard trying to placate the public by telling us that the recaptured monkeys were enjoying peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He has also said that the monkeys received “no ill effects from their adventure.” Of course not — the ill effects happen inside Alpha Genesis, not in nature.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is taking action to address past and current mistreatment of the animals at Alpha Genesis that has resulted in citations and violations spanning years. As she wrote to animal welfare officials at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "While in the care of Alpha Genesis, monkeys have frozen to death, died of dehydration, and been killed by other distressed primates.” However, the CEO of Alpha Genesis said Rep. Mace is committed to supporting Alpha Genesis for its economic contribution to the Lowcountry. --->READ MORE HERE