Justin Goodman | 05-02-25
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Summary
Rob and Ronna are back in the Stone Zone talking about animal testing in government labs, including the White House, the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other places in the government where the government experiments on dogs, cats, primates and other animals.
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and we're back in the stone zone look anybody who knows me or my wife knows that we are
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animal lovers in the course of our marriage we have nine yorkshire terriers uh and one
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three-legged wheaton terrier who we got on the side of the road he'd been mangled by a car we
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tried to save his leg but it had to be amputated it's amazing how he got along incredibly well on
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three legs and he lived a long and full life as an adoptee in our household some of the work that
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i'm proudest of during president donald trump's first term is when i worked as a volunteer with
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the white coat coat waste project to end the inhumane uh and horrific uh so-called scientific
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taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs cats and other primates we made great strides during the
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first trump presidency and the president zeroed out funding for these horrific uh unscientific
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but chilling experiments but now it appears that some of it is back joining me now justin goodman
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senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at the white coast waste project for more
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than 15 years justin has led winning grassroots and lobbying campaigns to expose and end the wasteful
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and cruel taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs cats primates and other animals justin welcome back in to
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the stone zone roger it's a pleasure to be here and thank you for all your great advocacy for animals
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suffering and government labs we couldn't do this stuff without you well i i really much appreciate
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your work and i was happy to volunteer and i want to bring public attention to the issue again yet today
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while we did make great strides in the first trump administration uh and even in this administration
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so for example the environmental protection agency now run by former new york congressman lee zeldin
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announced uh that it would get the agency back on track uh and consistent with the 2019 trump plan
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to eliminate animal testing uh other places in the government it seems that this is not happening
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first let's talk about epa this to me is very good news yeah absolutely roger you know as you know
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you were one of the people who helped get this historic policy in place back in 2019 uh andrew wheeler
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then the head of the epa under trump uh 45 announced a historic plan first in the history of the
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government that they were going to completely eliminate all animal testing by 2035 and they
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were going to make a 30 reduction by 2025 which is this year uh andrew wheeler and president trump put
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the agency on track in 2019 to accomplish that unfortunately right after andrew wheeler and
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president trump left uh the white house in 2021 the biden administration due to pressure from
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uh scientists inside the agency as well as environmental groups got the biden administration
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to kill the trump plan to end animal testing at the epa the environmental groups that were pressuring
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the biden administration got them to do that to remove the deadlines to end animal testing
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and said they need to do it in the name of environmental justice that we needed to do not
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only did they want to completely eliminate trump's plan but they wanted the epa to do more animal
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testing again in the name of environmental justice and other woke priorities like there's there's one
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example during the biden administration where the epa was shooting off handguns and rifles and forcing
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animals to breathe the firearms emissions for gun control experiments and other testing they were
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putting uh rats in cages feeding them unhealthy diets and then heating up the cages to mimic
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climate change allegedly and then pump smoke wildfire smoke into the cages to mimic wildfires in
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and climate change interacting on people who eat crappy food so the the mind reels but the trump
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administration uh one of the first things they did and you and i have been advocating this since
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beginning of the year lee zeldon's epa committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating
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animal testing so that's great news the epa kills thousands and thousands of animals a year in these
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experiments rabbits dogs other animals and this is going to save a lot of tax money and a lot of
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animals so that's good news for everyone but like you said it hasn't been all uh sunshine and rainbows
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unfortunately over the first hundred days of the administration yeah i am still haunted by these
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images i'm sure people have seen them uh where under dr fauci they would take beagles they would encase
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the beagles heads in this enclosure and then they would pump in sand fleas that would literally eat the
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flesh uh on the faces and heads of these beagles can you explain to me what the scientific uh value of
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that might be yeah of course roger so yeah you're referring to our landmark investigation in 2021
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after we uncovered fauci's funding for the wuhan lab and we just celebrated the five-year anniversary
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of that investigation and president trump famously going on tv during the coronavirus briefing in late
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april and saying this is tremendous waste i'm going to cut that grant and right there on the spot on tv
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he cut the funding for the wuhan lab after our investigation thrilled about that the next big
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fauci scandal that we uncovered was in 2021 where we uncovered these photographs of beagle puppies
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who had been drugged and their head placed in these nest cages and allowed uh they allowed uh biting
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flies to eat them alive and that was a project going on in a foreign country in tunisia with u.s
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taxpayer dollars and they were looking to they were doing vaccine experiments uh on those dogs over
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there and unfortunately you know fauci even though he's gone from government and i know you've talked
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about this on the show we've talked about on the show you've written about it on your website
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unfortunately even though he's gone from government a lot of the animal testing that he signed off on
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put into emotion to put into motion and was personally involved in in some cases um has continued
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under the new administration under trump despite obviously the president and secretary kennedy's
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commitment to wipe anthony fauci's fingerprints from the federal government and fix the broken nih that he
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left um so again there's good news at the epa but we are troubled by some of the things we're seeing
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at the nih under its current director jay badacharya yeah i saw these new records uh publicized by my
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friend laura loomer uh but released by white coast waste that reveals that the national institute of
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health has extended funding for septic shock experiments where beagles are pumped with bacteria
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and then slowly killed without pain relief this is actually happening inside the nih headquarters where
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the new director works uh and they've renewed a 322 000 grant to moderna billionaire robert langer's
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company to abuse dogs in weight loss drug tests uh elon musk himself uh said online that this
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needs to be investigated and stopped uh i could not agree more now you add to the fact that
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uh the nih and the pentagon are continuing to pay a lab in china which tortures i'm told 300 beagles per
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week uh i really don't believe the president knows about any of this that's my own belief uh because he
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too is an animal lover uh and i see where you have appealed to uh the secretary of defense as well as to
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the president to end this horrific cruel weird experiments on dogs cats and other animals
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yeah absolutely you know we've been advocating since the end of last year i mean since you know
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since the president was re-elected in november we've been putting these issues at the top of
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our priority list for the new administration to cut funding for dog and cat testing across these
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agencies like you said we're still finding evidence not only of contracts biden era contracts
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fauci contracts and grants that these guys literally signed off on and supported getting
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renewed now under the new nih leadership um but a lot of the projects have just continued but like
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you know fauci established and has been funding an island off the south carolina where there's 3 000
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monkeys being held captive and then a few hundred or shift off the island every year for virus
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experiments and nih labs the nih just renewed the funding for that obviously you mentioned the other
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funding they've renewed they've cut some grants but renewed some funding for these crazy transgender
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animal experiments that we uncovered uh and i think you're right i think that uh pete secretary
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head just obviously doesn't know about this stuff uh i think now that elon musk weighed in today both
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about the nih and and dod animal testing saying that doge needs to investigate i think that i you know the
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secretary will take swift and decisive action to make sure dogs aren't being tortured in china with
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our tax dollars i mean that's just that's sick and and dangerous and presents national security risks
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obviously um but i don't think he wants it happening here either and i think the president uh you know now
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that folks like you and laura loomer and elon are getting involved in really making noise and speaking up
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about the fact that these biden era fauci holdovers who are now in the nih are actually signing off on
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continually some of these wasteful and cruel and ridiculous projects that are costing taxpayers
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billions of dollars a year so you know roger you know better than i do about how to clean out the
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government and i think we really do need to clean house at nih there are people who have been there
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for obama years biden years who are still running the show signing off on these grants and keeping a lot of
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this waste going and keeping it alive uh and we really need folks in there who are willing to make
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what i consider most people consider easy decisions we shouldn't be funding experiments in china on
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animals we shouldn't be torturing cats and dogs with taxpayer dollars these are things that people
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across the political spectrum can agree on but there's deep state losers inside the nih who want
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so uh justin if people want to help in what i think is a really noble crusade where can they go
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online and and support your important work uh thank you for that opportunity roger i would love if folks
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visited whitecoatwaste.org that's our website and to follow us on social and see all the activity
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today with you and laura loomer and elon musk on on x on all social media platforms at whitecoat waste
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i was interested to see that this uh congressman from michigan sheree athenadar who sponsored a
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resolution to impeach president donald trump not only does he have an eight hundred thousand dollar
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campaign debt so i think his impeachment resolution is really more about raising money for his re-election
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but in his prior career he actually ran a laboratory where they experimented on animals and
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essentially he abandoned 118 uh beagles as i understand it just i mean leaving them abandoned
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without food or water this boggles the mind yeah this is yeah roger this is uh this is back in 2010
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i actually was involved in this case um i was working at peta back then i haven't been there
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for a long time i've been at white coat nearly a decade but i was back there and the veterinarian
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from that laboratory called me and he was frantic and he said that they're we just got word that
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they're shutting the lab down and the owner who we now know is currently at the time he was just the
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owner of the lab and now we know he's a congressman now sheree thanadar from michigan had left the
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animals there to die and washed his hands of the whole situation after the bank took over so this
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veterinarian wanted to save those animals he called me and said what can you do and unfortunately peta
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at the time told me that they didn't want to do anything they were not going to get involved
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uh but i have lots of friends in the animal rescue space and was able to reach out to folks who do
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dog and cat rescue and who rescue primates and bring them to sanctuaries and they were able to save
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over 170 beagles and monkeys who were locked in thanadar's lab at the time and were being left
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for dead um and these you know this type of laboratory it's obviously has a shutdown these
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laboratories exist because animal testing is big business the government spends 20 billion dollars
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a year on animal testing of taxpayers money and not only do we spend taxpayers money on animal testing
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the fda and other agencies have forced companies to conduct animal testing against their will for new
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products even though it's incredibly wasteful and unnecessary and very expensive and that's how
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labs like thanadar's exist because of government funding and also government mandates on private
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industry so we've seen some good movement obviously like we said at the epa with getting rid of some of
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these animal testing uh requirements uh for dog testing pesticides on dogs for example something the epa is
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currently doing but hopefully will end soon and the fda marty mccari at the fda the uh commissioner
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announced a big plan a couple weeks ago a 10 page uh i think it was like a 10 page plan they released
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outlining their priorities for reducing animal testing um so that's all steps in the right
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direction nih has cut some testing doge has cut some testing at the nih but the nih has not yet
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made any sweeping announcement about cutting animal testing and in fact the only thing they have released
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is a plan for more spending and more bureaucracy that's not going to save animals
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um so we're really trying to put some pressure on the nih to do the right thing and end these programs
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that fauci kept alive for 40 years and finally put them in the grave where they belong so other than
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going to your website uh let's give our folks the website one more time it is whitecoatwaste.org
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and then on social media at whitecoatwaste on all the platforms all right and uh if someone else if
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you want to take additional action what would you recommend should they write the president should
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they write the who should they write to i think go on social media and tag the president tag the head
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of the nih jay about acharya at nih uh at potus and just let these people know you want to see taxpayer
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funding cut for government animal experiments all right i want to thank our guest justin goodman he is
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the senior vice president of advocacy and public policy for the white coast waste project uh please
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folks give us a hand here help us save the animals