Animal rights group PETA has once again thanked the Trump administration for its push to end government-funded animal testing after National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya announced the closure of the agency’s last beagle testing facility.
Bhattacharya, who gained international recognition for being one of the few major voices in the medical field who spoke out against coronavirus lockdowns, made the announcement over the weekend on Fox News:
“It’s very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer’s in mice. But those things don’t translate to humans,” the Trump-appointed NIH director told host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday.
“So we put forward a policy to replace animals in research with technological advances, AI and other tools, that actually translate better to human health.”
When he revealed, “We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” Campus-Duffy replied, “Amen.”
In a statement obtained by Breitbart News, PETA Director of Science Advancement and Outreach Dr. Emily Trunell welcomed the “long-overdue” news:
After more than a decade of agitation, tens of thousands of emails to NIH officials from PETA supporters, and a 2021 landmark lawsuit, PETA welcomes the long-overdue news that NIH is canceling at least one of the appalling sepsis experiments that inflicted prolonged suffering on animals in federal and federally funded laboratories. Since 2013, PETA has argued for the complete termination of these cruel and scientifically worthless experiments on ALL animals—and we will continue to fight until every last one is ended. It is also critical to underscore that the beagles tormented and killed in these now-terminated painful experiments were purchased from Envigo. This notorious facility was shut down after PETA’s undercover investigation exposed the nightmarish conditions in which thousands of dogs were warehoused. PETA’s investigation led to the historic rescue of 4,000 dogs.
The end of beagle testing at NIH comes after the discovery of horrific experiments done on the loveable animals at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci from his long tenure at the health agency.