โWhen Anthony Bellottiโฆ set out to defend animal rights, he deployed a game plan designed to enlist conservatives to the cause. His nonprofit, White Coat Waste, founded in 2011, painted animal studies as government waste.โ
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โAfter decades of being dismissed by many conservatives as a project of the political left, the cause of animal rights is being embraced by leading figures in President Trumpโs Make America Great Again movementโฆ.
the president complained that the N.I.H. had spent โ$8 million for making mice transgenderโโฆ echoing White Coat Waste.
Mr. Bellotti and Justin Goodman, White Coat Wasteโs lobbyist, are not shy about describing their strategyโฆ.โจโจTheir work helped fuel the โlab leakโ theory of the pandemic, and put Dr. Fauci on the hot spot. โฆ
photos of beagles, their heads trapped in mesh cages, went viralโฆ. White Coat Waste later produced documents showing the beagle experiments had in fact been taxpayer-fundedโฆ.
The media-savvy Mr. Bellotti called it โBeagle-gate.โ
Mr. Bellotti has known since he was 17 that he wanted to fight for animal rightsโฆ forged by his experience as an intern in a hospital animal testing lab.
He rescued โฆ Delilah from a Department of Agriculture laboratory that his group helped shut down in 2019.
โSheโs my soul cat,โ Mr. Bellotti said... โMy life,โ he added, โis for the defense of the domestic short hair.โ โฆ.
the Trump administration is listening.โ
โย ย The New York Times
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