NIH closes experimentation labs accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years

National Institutes of Vitality NIH director Jay Bhattacharya in the last few days disclosed on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus The announcement comes just days after Department of Leadership Efficiency DOGE head Elon Musk posted on X that he would investigate funding beagle experiments A statement from the White Coat Waste WCW project detailed the lab's history of allegedly pumping pneumonia-causing bacteria into more than beagles lungs bleeding them out and forcing them into septic shock for deadly experiments Following the announcement WCW president and founder Anthony Bellotti praised President Donald Trump for ending the highly scrutinized project REP NANCY MACE SAYS FAUCI 'SENT PUPPIES TO SLAUGHTER' WITH 'BARBARIC AND GRUESOME' NIH-FUNDED EXPERIMENTS Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn t be forced to pay for the NIH s beagle abuse Bellotti wrote in a report We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad The resolution is simple Stop the money Stop the madness HHS AXES MORE THAN M IN GENDER DEI-RELATED ROBUSTNESS GRANTS TO CALIFORNIA ALONEShortly after the Trump administration took office the Food and Drug Administration FDA disclosed in April it would phase out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin also broadcasted his agency would reinstate a strategy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing PETA PLEADS WITH NIH TO STOP FUNDING FOR ANIMAL SCRUTINY CALLS SLEEP EXPERIMENT 'CRUEL AND HORRIFIC'During Trump's first term in the administration closed the administration s largest cat lab Bhattacharya announced People for the Ethical Medication of Animals PETA reached out to him following the closure of the beagle testing facility sending him flowers PETA ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS PRAISE TRUMP ADMIN FOR PHASING OUR CRUEL TESTS ON DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS Normally I think NIH directors tend to get physical threats but they sent me flowers Bhattacharya reported on air PETA in highlighted Anthony Fauci's alleged approval of funding for tests in Tunisia where beagle puppies were drugged and their heads were locked in cages filled with hungry infected sandflies TRUMP ADMIN CUTS ADDITIONAL M IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR 'TRANSGENDER ANIMAL' EXPERIMENTSAfter the reports came out bipartisan lawmakers including Rep Nancy Mace R-S C sent a letter to Fauci addressing the heartbreaking experiments The previous 24 hours I sent a letter to Dr Fauci regarding cruel taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies debarking before drugging and killing them Mace wrote in an October post on X This is disgusting What say you NIH Kathy Guillermo PETA senior vice president of laboratory investigations explained Fox News Digital on Sunday night the organization is delighted by the news of the NIH facility closure We are letting the new NIH Director know how fundamental this step is for modernizing science and we're especially happy because these last experiments involved sepsis which we have been working to end for several years Sepsis experiments on animals are failures Guillermo noted PETA has a lawsuit pending filed under the Biden administration to try to prevent the authorities from funding any more sepsis experiments The Indiana-based company that bred the beagles for research Envigo pleaded guilty in to neglecting thousands of dogs at its Cumberland Virginia breeding facility and will be required to pay more than million in fines according to the American Veterinary Health Association We are just thrilled to see that the Envigo beagles who were used at the NIH location will no longer be used Guillermo mentioned We first exposed Envigo in an undercover analysis that eventually led to the closure of the facility and the release of beagles to good homes FDA PHASING OUT SPECIFIC ANIMAL TESTING IN WIN-WIN FOR ETHICS AND INHABITANTS STRENGTH COMMISSIONERPETA is awaiting information about the condition of the dogs that will be published and if they are in good enough shape to be placed in a home Guillermo announced they stand ready to help Dr Bhattacharya has made a wonderful start and there is a lot more work to be done because animals are being experimented on including beagles and other dogs across the country she explained So we're looking forward to what comes next The White House and the NIH did not without delay respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this review