Controversial White House medical advisor and NIAID director Anthony Fauci confirmed that he will no longer seek to perform drug testing on beagle puppies after the matter drew ire from the public last year.
Americans were shocked last October when they learned that Fauci used over $400,000 of their tax dollars to perform cruel and inhumane experiments on beagle puppies – some as young as six months old – that saw their eyes eaten alive by flies. When the puppies cried, Fauci’s researchers sliced their vocal cords to continue the experiments.
Dr. Fauci’s division at the National Institutes of Health @NIH wasted over $424,000 on deadly and unnecessary experiments on beagles. Thank you @WhiteCoatWaste for the expose! #BeagleGate #PaulsPupshttps://t.co/o9MMBI3H7U
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 25, 2021
Now, Fauci confirmed in a letter to Rep. Joni Ernst that he is not seeking to use beagle puppies or any other dogs in new research into allergy medication, despite his letter indicating that experimenting on the dogs is warranted.
“Although the contract to Inimmune Corporation proposed the use of murine and canine preclinical animal models,” wrote Fauci in his letter, according to the Washington Examiner, “after consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company elected to proceed using two rodent models only.”
“No experiments utilizing the canine model are being conducted under this contract,” the embattled doctor added.
Beagle puppy sitting outside (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Fauci also told Ernst that the taxpayer funds – nearly $1.8 million in total – will not be going to China, as has frequently been the case with research funded under Fauci’s decades in power.
Ernst offered Fauci’s letter as a victory for animal rights activists, and said in a statement that “These inhumane practices have no place in our government – much less on the taxpayer’s dime.”
“Thankfully, after voicing our concerns and shining a light on these heinous tactics,” wrote Ernst, “taxpayers can rest easy knowing their hard-earned money is not going towards dog abuse.”
The elderly vaccine enthusiast recently tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time, despite being quadruple vaccinated and having taken Pfizer’s new COVID-19 fighting drug. Like many before him, the 81-year-old credited the jabs for his mild symptoms.
