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Animal testing: Joe Biden can give more shelter dogs like Major a second chance
Federal agencies have piecemeal policies to protect animal welfare, but they don't go far enough. At least a dozen agencies experiment on animals.
Arin Greenwood
February 7, 2021
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President Joe Biden has been leading the charge to give mistreated animals a better life for decades. As a Senator, he helped get the ball rolling on the retirement of animals from taxpayer-funded labs, including cosponsoring legislation back in 1986 to move abused monkeys from a National Institutes of Health-funded lab in Maryland to a sanctuary.
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The AFTER Act is the most important public policy of its kind. It would make lab animal retirement of cats, dogs, monkeys and other federally regulated animals standard across the whole federal government
This bill, which we call Violet?s Law, after a dog rescued by WCW from a taxpayer-funded lab, enjoys broad support from both sides of the aisle...
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