Justin Goodman: Taxpayer Funded Torture
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Justin Goodman is the Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, a two and a half million member, taxpayer watchdog group that is working to end twenty billion dollars in taxpayer funded animal experiments.
Justin and I met in D C in February, pre-social distancing. And, it just so happened that on the very morning that we met, White Coat had released footage of National Institute of Health experiments that had been going on for decades. It was a gift for me to be with Justin before and after this interview, and to watch his phone blow up from half of Capitol Hill in reaction to the horrifying footage. I felt like I had front row seats to seeing how effective and powerful White Coat Waste Project is.
And since we met, they've had another huge victory: A couple of weeks ago, White Coat exposed how the National Institutes for Health has spent millions of tax dollars funding dangerous coronavirus animal tests at the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology and just one week after they released their international exposé–Trump promised he'd end the government's funding of dangerous, cruel and wasteful animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology!
And, today is World Day for Laboratory Animals – so, please think about them during this (relatively) short stint in quarantine. They are in it for life, in tiny cages, being tested on and tortured, and almost all of them will never know the sun, the wind, the grass, what it feels like to run, explore, adventure, and discover; nor will they experience life with other animals, to be a part of a herd, a troop, a flock, or a family. Count your blessings and please, stop paying for their abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | As an organizational policy, we don't oppose all animal testing. |
| 0:03.2 | We pose all taxpayer-funded animal testing, which is the overwhelming majority of it. |
| 0:07.2 | And we say if these things are so valuable, let the Gates Foundation or private philanthropists who spend tens of billions of dollars a year on research, let them fund it. |
| 0:16.0 | But I can tell you right now, Bill Gates, is not going to spend $16 million to give monkeys brain damage and scare them with snakes and spiders. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novograt's. This is Species Unite. Today's conversation is with |
| 0:39.3 | Justin Goodman. Justin is Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, |
| 0:46.2 | a 2.5 million member taxpayer watchdog group working to end $20 billion in taxpayer-funded animal experiments. |
| 0:54.1 | Justin and I met in DC in February, |
| 0:56.9 | pre-social distancing, and it just so happened |
| 1:00.0 | that on the very morning that we met, |
| 1:02.1 | White Code had just released footage of NIH experiments |
| 1:05.2 | that had been going on for decades. |
| 1:07.8 | And the cool thing for me was to be with Justin before and after this interview and just to see how his phone blew up from half |
| 1:15.2 | a Capitol Hill, all in reaction to this footage being released. |
| 1:19.6 | It was like having front row seats to seeing how effective White Coat Waste Project is. |
| 1:25.0 | This conversation is especially important right now, |
| 1:29.0 | while we're in the midst of a global pandemic that was caused by how we treat animals our relationship to animals and if we can't use |
| 1:37.2 | what's happening in the world right now with COVID-19 this massive tragedy as an opportunity to rethink these systems and overhaul these |
| 1:46.2 | industries, then I think it's an enormous loss for the entire entire planet. Why don't you tell us what White Coat Project is? |
| 2:00.0 | Why don't you tell us what White Coat Project is? |
| 2:04.0 | White Coat Waste is a taxpayer watchdog organization that exists specifically to cut taxpayer funding for animal testing. |
| 2:14.1 | A lot of people don't realize that it's not cosmetics companies who are the |
| 2:18.8 | number one culprit when it comes to animal testing despite what they might see on |
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