Treating animals humanely is one of the few things that most people on the left and right can agree on, at least rhetorically.
But with so much scientific research hinging on the outcome of tests involving animals, there has long been a tug-of-war between animal rights and human progress.
Thanks to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, however, that debate might be a thing of the past sooner than we think.
TheBlaze had this report on the progress of the Trump administration’s goal to end testing on all mammals nationwide by 2035:
The EPA declared that it is expanding its approved list of “cutting-edge” alternatives to animal studies by adding 13 more new approach methods. The agency describes NAMs as “high-quality alternatives” intended to reduce animal testing, particularly on vertebrate mammals such as rabbits, mice, rats, and dogs.
The Toxic Substances Control Act “directs EPA to use NAMs whenever scientifically appropriate when evaluating chemicals, and to reduce, refine, or replace vertebrate mammal testing,” the EPA’s press release read. “Modern NAMs, including human cell models and advanced computer-based methods, help EPA identify hazards and exposures faster and often with results that are more relevant to people, not laboratory animals.”
The EPA contended that these alternative methods can reduce time and costs, as well as provide more applicable insight into how chemicals interact with the human body. The move “opens the door for innovators to bring the next generation of tools to the table,” according to the EPA.
News soon began to spread via social media:
Fauci deserves the same treatment as those dogs
— Mitten (@MeInTheMitten) June 2, 2026
How long before a federal judge steps in and stops this?
— wdz18 (@andrewwdz) June 2, 2026
They are still going on….are we in the middle ages?
— JesusRules (@Count_All_JOY) June 2, 2026
Here’s what the Daily Caller added:
“Earlier this year, White Coat Waste proudly joined EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to restore the historic Trump-era plan to phase out animal testing by 2035 after we exposed how the Biden Administration quietly scrapped it behind closed doors,” White Coat Waste (WCW) Founder and President Anthony Bellotti said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday. “We commend Administrator Zeldin and the EPA for following through on their commitment to cut wasteful animal testing.”
“White Coat Waste was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests and has led the fight to defund all dog labs ever since,” Bellotti added. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll big-government bureaucrats who mandate beagle torture, butcher bunnies, force animals to inhale firearm emissions in bizarre gun-control experiments, or lock animals alone in sweltering, smog-filled cages and feed them lard in absurd studies on climate change, obesity, and loneliness—as the EPA did under the Biden administration.”
Biden’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases notably granted taxpayer funds for abusive animal experiments, according to documents obtained by WCW in 2021.
Here’s more on the notorious beagle testing linked to Fauci:
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