The Trump Administration is ending animal cruelty.
Liberals have long been considered the camp that champions animal rights (see: PETA), but that is no longer true today.
President Donald Trump and his administration have been leading the charge to curb the inhumane treatment of animals, starting in 2019 when the President made animal cruelty a federal crime.
Consider more recent action from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA had planned a phaseout of animal testing during President Trump’s first term, but those efforts were thwarted by the Biden administration. Now that President Trump is back in the White House, under EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, the ban against animal testing is being restored.
Similar moves are quietly happening across other federal agencies, including at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
In April, the FDA announced that it will replace animal testing with more effective, human-relevant methods, such as AI-based computational modeling.
In May, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya announced that the agency’s controversial Clinical Center in Bethesda—which was used for Anthony Fauci’s beagle tests—was being shut down.
(Over 2,000 beagles died during Fauci’s experiments, with each puppy costing between $1,000-$1,500, for a total of approximately $3.2 million in wasted taxpayer money.)
It’s about time.
Dogs in laboratories are kept in empty steel cages, often alone. They may be subjected to repeated surgeries; implanted with devices; force-fed drugs, pesticides (like Fauci’s beagles), or other substances; and then observed for harmful effects such as heart failure, cancer, or even death.
While a few fortunate dogs may be adopted afterward, most are killed.
Cruel, of course. But also worthless and unproductive.
As extensive evidence has shown, dogs are not good stand-ins for humans, and results from dog experiments can be misleading or inaccurate. --->READ MORE HERE
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The health secretary has made phasing out animal testing part of his Make America Healthy Again plan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s making animal welfare a component of his Make America Healthy Again mission.
The health secretary has asked his agencies to refine high-tech methods of testing chemicals and drugs that don’t involve killing animals. He thinks phasing out animal testing and using the new methods will help figure out what’s causing chronic disease. It’s also got an ancillary benefit for Republicans: Animal-rights advocates like what they’re hearing.
That’s another opportunity for President Donald Trump to co-opt a traditionally left-leaning constituency.
“No one likes to see suffering,” Emily Trunnell, director of science advancement and outreach at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told POLITICO. “The animal welfare benefits are very obvious to most people.”
Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced it would spend $87 million on a new center researching alternatives to animal testing and permit agency-supported researchers to use grant funding to find homes for retired lab animals.
Kennedy signed off because he thinks the new methods will enable scientists to more quickly and inexpensively draw conclusions about how chemicals and drugs work. He expects that’ll confirm his belief that chemicals in the environment and in food are making Americans sick and also speed cures for chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
“Human-based technologies and nonanimal models are the answer to MAHA,” Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health official managing the effort for Kennedy, told POLITICO. “They are the tools that are actually going to give us the insights to tackle chronic disease.”
The new center will attempt to develop a standardized alternative to animal testing that relies on tiny, lab-grown 3D tissue models, enlisting help from across the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates pharmaceuticals. Harnessing science and technology to protect animals isn’t an obvious Trump agenda item. But the president has a pattern of taking ideas from the left and repackaging them for his base, to great success, an impulse best illustrated by Trump’s embrace of Kennedy’s health-focused movement. --->READ MORE HERE
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