SICKENING: Watchdog group exposes NIH-funded kitten torture experiments

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Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn’t just authorizing torture experiments on beagles during his reign at the NIH. He also funded torture experiments on cats and kittens.

A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, the White Coat Waste Project, is sounding the alarm over another sickening animal testing program conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The NIH has been funding lethal experiments on cats for over 30 years, at a cost of $1.5 million to U.S. taxpayers. Nearly 3,000 kittens have reportedly been killed over the 36-year program.

In a report published last week, the White Coat Waste Project exposed a horrifying NIH-funded kitten testing project at the University of Pittsburgh in which the animals are spun around hundreds of times until they became nauseated.

Below are opening excerpts of the report:

  • WCW’s new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation reveals horrifying NIH-funded kitten tests at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt).

  • Cats are forced to become nauseous from bright lights and electric shocks. Others are restrained to a hydraulic table and spun hundreds of times for motion sickness “research.”

  • Pitt specifically targets female kittens because they’re more “amenable” to long periods of restraint.

  • Some cats have their brains and spinal cords mutilated—essentially zombifying them.

  • NIH has been funding these lethal experiments for over 30 years costing taxpayers $1.5M.

  • WCW is on a mission to obliterate taxpayer-funded cat testing. No other animal protection organization has shut down federal feline labs in 40 years.

White Coat Waste recently exposed a Pitt laboratory where cats are electro-shocked and forced to defecate marbles.

Our new FOIA investigation reveals Pitt killed hundreds of cats after forcing felines to suffer intense motion sickness.

And it’s been funded by NIH for decades.

The WCWP report explains that the researchers pump a feline’s stomach with toxic compounds, then fire off electrodes to stimulate the part of her brain that causes motion sickness.  They also strap the cats to a hydraulic table that tilts and spins until the cats omit.

The experimenters use female kittens, between four and six months old, in the program, as they are more “amenable” to long periods of restraint.

“To intensify motion sickness, NIH-funded white coats stress her eyes with bright flashing lights. They pump copper sulfate into her stomach. Each kitten endures this abuse for hours at a time,” WCWP writes.

The kittens are also subject to a technique called “Decerebration”, which cuts off a cat’s brain function while she’s still alive. The kittens are “pinned up by their head, hips, and spine. Their brainstems are lacerated, rendering them zombified,” the report states.

The report gets even more sickening:

Once zombified, a device is drilled into the kitten’s skull. Her head is tethered to a hydraulic tilt table. She’s spun up, down, around, side-to-side, and “wobbled.”   For 8-12 hours…or even longer.

A description by the University of Pittsburgh claims the main purpose of the NIH-funded project is to compare how cats differ from monkeys after being spun and tilted around.

In a social media post, the White Coat Waste Project announced: “New WCW Investigation. The @NIH is wasting your $ to make kittens nauseous with bright lights & electric shocks & by spinning them around hundreds of times in this restraint device. They also drill into their skulls & kill them. Is this how you want your money spent?”

But wait… there’s MORE! Five years ago, back in 2019, the White Coat Waste Project exposed a USDA-funded kitten torture experiment being conducted in a Beltsville, Maryland lab.  After the project was exposed, it was shut down, according to an ABC7 News report.

However, ABC 7 News reported on May 31 that Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder of White Coat Waste Project, recently received a tip that the same type of research was about to start up again – this time at the University of California-Davis, funded by the National Institute of Health.

Once again, when the torturous experiment was made public, it was shut down.  ABC7 writes:

After receiving a tip, Bellotti’s White Coats submitted a Freedom of Information Act request earlier this year to both UC-Davis and NIH. It revealed that UC-Davis Associate Professor Doctor Jeroen Saeij received $400,000 in grant money from NIH to fund more experiments on kittens.

Saeij was expected to start up the research again later this year after documents revealed he killed 10 kittens in experiments at UC-Davis in 2021. Dr. Saeji didn’t respond to 7 News’ on-camera interview request.

7 News has learned from both NIH and UC-Davis that Within 48 hours after White Coats’ public document request, Doctor Saeij informed NIH he was changing the scope of his research to not include cats.

7 News investigative reporter Scott Taylor noted that Dr. Anthony Fauci was in charge of NIH when funding was approved for the appalling experiments.

WATCH the ABC7 News report below, which was broadcast on May 31.

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