Cleveland VA Will No Longer Test or Experiment on Cats, Advocacy Group Announces

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Cleveland VA Will No Longer Test or Experiment on Cats, Advocacy Group Announces
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They were known as the Stokes Seven. Last year, Denis McDonough, the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs wrote a letter to the Subcommittee on Military Construction approving a research study at Cleveland's Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs 'that will involve felines.

Last year, Denis McDonough, the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs wrote a letter to the Subcommittee on Military Construction approving a research study at Cleveland's Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs"that will involve felines."

Last week, the White Coat Waste Project, a D.C.-based animals rights group founded in 2020, announced that $270,000 experimentation on four-legged friends would no longer be policy and practice at Cleveland's Veterans hospital. Since July 2023, Goodman's organization has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars exposing testing on cats, dogs and monkeys—specifically in the Cleveland area, when it bought billboards lambasting the Biden administration for allowing such testing to occur. The advocacy group's investigations and ad dollars shed light on a series of sometimes heinous testing, from VAs in Los Angeles to St. Louis and Raleigh, N.C.

vowed to eliminate all testing with sensitive species—cats, dogs, monkeys—by 2026, and within 90 days for Cleveland's hospital.

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