White Coat Waste Project

White Coat Waste (WCW) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and bipartisan government watchdog. Our mission? To expose and close the U.S. government’s $20 billion animal testing business. Our strategy? Stop the money. Stop the madness!

WCW is the most effective organization for getting animals out of labs. We’ve rescued, spared, impacted, and saved over 29,000 lives. We’ve cut $99 million in wasteful spending and shut down over 114 labs and experiments.

• First exposed how U.S. taxpayers funded the Wuhan lab—and rallied President Trump to cut the probable lab leak center
• Uncovered—and stopped—Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests
• Closed the U.S. government’s largest cat laboratory: USDA’s “Kitten Slaughterhouse”
• Ended experimentation on dogs and puppies at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Ended testing on cats and kittens at the VA
• Closed the FDA’s largest primate lab and slashed its monkey business by 63%
• Won the first-ever federal policies to retire and release lab survivors as pets at the NIH, VA, DOD, and FDA
• Led the campaign to pass America’s first state law prohibiting taxpayer funding for maximum-pain cat and dog tests
• Proved the U.S. government-funded “Patient 0”—the near certain origin of COVID
• Exposed NIH’s cat experiments at a Kremlin-run lab—and united the GOP and President Biden to defund all animal testing in Russia

Our campaigns and investigations have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, the New York Times, and more.