Defund to Defeat Dog and Cat Labs

Thank you to Justin Goodman and White Coat Waste for an informative and impactful virtual town hall. Justin’s clear, thoughtful overview of the scope of U.S. government–funded animal testing—and the concrete, bipartisan efforts underway to expose and defund wasteful practices—was both eye-opening and encouraging. We deeply appreciate White Coat Waste’s singular focus and proven track record of accountability, transparency, and real policy change. It was especially heartening to hear how advocacy across party lines can lead to meaningful progress for animals and taxpayers alike – if we could clone Justin in Canada we would. This kind of work needs to be apart of the landscape in Canada, where secrecy in animal testing in this country is prevalent and where there are no protections for animals in research in Canada.

Thank you Justin and White Coat Waste for your leadership, integrity, and unwavering commitment to the animals in research and your community at large.

Justin Goodman is Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at the bipartisan nonprofit watchdog White Coat Waste, whose sole focus is finding, exposing and defunding $20 billion a year in U.S. government-funded animal testing. For more than 20 years, he has led investigations, grassroots campaigns, and lobbying efforts that have exposed and ended taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, cats, primates, and other animals.