Liberals have long been considered the camp that champions animal rights (see: PETA), but that is no longer true today.
President Donald Trump and his administration have been leading the charge to curb the inhumane treatment of animals, starting in 2019 when the President made animal cruelty a federal crime.
Consider more recent action from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA had planned a phaseout of animal testing during President Trump’s first term, but those efforts were thwarted by the Biden administration. Now that President Trump is back in the White House, under EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, the ban against animal testing is being restored.
Similar moves are quietly happening across other federal agencies, including at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
In April, the FDA announced that it will replace animal testing with more effective, human-relevant methods, such as AI-based computational modeling.
In May, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya announced that the agency’s controversial Clinical Center in Bethesda—which was used for Anthony Fauci’s beagle tests—was being shut down.
(Over 2,000 beagles died during Fauci’s experiments, with each puppy costing between $1,000-$1,500, for a total of approximately $3.2 million in wasted taxpayer money.) READ MORE
