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March 18, 2025
Science

Trump Halts Biden Funding for Transgender Animal Research.

The Trump administration has announced the termination of taxpayer-funded grants for transgender experiments on animals, according to the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW). Initially awarded under President Joe Biden’s government, these grants were directed to Harvard University and recently ended by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

One grant, valued at $299,940, was designated for research on “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes.” This project aimed to explore breast cancer risks associated with testosterone therapy in “transmasculine” individuals by conducting experiments on female mice, which involved administering testosterone and removing ovaries. The study, which began in September 2023, was initially set to conclude in August 2025 but was cut short by the Trump administration.

Another grant, valued at $442,444, focused on the “Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone-Mediated Sex Differences in Wound Healing” and was slated to receive $2.2 million through 2029. Beginning in September 2024, this project’s funding was also terminated. The research involved experiments examining wound healing in animals treated with exogenous hormones, aiming to understand the impacts of transgender hormone therapy.

Anthony Bellotti, President of WCW, praised the Trump administration for cutting these grants, describing the move as a victory against wasteful taxpayer spending on animal experiments. WCW reported that nine such grants, totaling over $8 million, had been slashed.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer reported in February that $241 million in taxpayer funds had been utilized for transgender animal experiments during Biden’s tenure.

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The Trump administration has announced the termination of taxpayer-funded grants for transgender experiments on animals, according to the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW). Initially awarded under President Joe Biden's government, these grants were directed to Harvard University and recently ended by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). show more
November 7, 2024
Health
News

Monkey News: Dozens of Simians Escape Research Facility, Residents Urged to Secure Homes.

Dozens of monkeys have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. Authorities claim there is no health risk to the public, but they have warned locals to keep their doors and windows locked.

State officials warned residents in Beaufort County following the escape of over 40 monkeys from a research facility on Wednesday, November 6. The Yemassee Police Department confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque monkeys managed to flee the Alpha Genesis facility. Efforts to capture the animals include the use of traps and thermal imaging cameras.

Police have advised residents to keep doors and windows locked to prevent the primates from entering homes. They urged anyone who spots the animals to contact emergency services and refrain from approaching them. As of Thursday morning, no monkeys had been recaptured.

Alpha Genesis, the facility in question, breeds monkeys and offers nonhuman primate products and research services internationally. According to its website, the company conducts clinical trials related to progressive brain disorders and houses various species.

The company, which also oversees a large colony of rhesus monkeys on nearby Morgan Island, also known as “Monkey Island,” has had previous incidents of escapes.

Prior lab leaks have led to the spread of disease, including the alleged lab leak in Wuhan, China, that is believed to have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

Initially, both government and media sources claimed the COVID-19 lab leak theory, popularized by Donald Trump, was false. However, earlier this year, even the New York Times published pieces admitting the disease likely originated as a lab leak.

Image by Timothy Gonsalves.

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Dozens of monkeys have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. Authorities claim there is no health risk to the public, but they have warned locals to keep their doors and windows locked. show more
May 4, 2024
Culture
News

Loony Left Media: Animals Should Be Considered ‘Legal Persons.’

The left-wing media is now arguing that animals should be considered legal persons and that the “violence” of so-called “ecocide” should be a punishable offense in international law and civil and criminal codes. Writing in the far-left magazine The New Republic, Lydia Millet argues that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United offers the legal precedent to enact such laws.

“Both domestically and internationally, species and ecosystems need to be endowed with legal standing to give local and native stewards the tools to save them from the depredations of industry in the short term and sustain them over the long,” writes Millet. “Accountability for the violence of what some call ‘ecocide’ should be embedded in international law and civil and criminal codes.”

“Luckily, bestowing legal standing on extra-human parties isn’t a fanciful idea,” she writes. “The U.S. Supreme Court did exactly that in the 2010 case known as Citizens United, when it declared that corporations were legal persons—a decision that hobbled American democracy but also set a neat precedent for extending legal personhood to nonhuman entities. And corporations are clearly more abstract and disembodied than animals.”

A GLOBAL MOVEMENT? 

Millet also points to the fact that other nations have begun classifying nature and animals as legal persons.

“In New Zealand, a river and a rainforest have been awarded personhood; the people of Ecuador, in 2008, voted to modify their Constitution to recognize the right of nature to exist and flourish; in the United States, the Yurok tribe gave personhood to the Klamath River under tribal law in 2019; and in 2010 Pittsburgh became the first major city to recognize the rights of nature. Those rights have also been enacted into law or invoked by courts in Bolivia, Panama, and India.”

What Millet fails to address is the inevitable implications of declaring animals and natural geographic features legal persons that could have catastrophic effects on human society. Were such blanket measures enacted, hunting, fishing, and farming as we know it might all become illegal. Indeed, current efforts by the Biden regime to “protect” the environment using already available means are predicted to impact energy costs dramatically and will have dire consequences for Americans’ standard of living.

Observers may also note the inherent irony of The New Republic, which appears to publish at least one article per day in favor of the “right” to abortion, arguing that animals are entitled to legal personhood protections while actual baby persons are not.

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The left-wing media is now arguing that animals should be considered legal persons and that the "violence" of so-called "ecocide" should be a punishable offense in international law and civil and criminal codes. Writing in the far-left magazine The New Republic, Lydia Millet argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United offers the legal precedent to enact such laws. show more
October 17, 2023
Jake Welch
Health
News
Science

Radioactive Wild Boar Contaminated By Nuclear Tests, Not Chernobyl.

Sounders of wild boar living in Southern Germany and Austria have become radioactive following nuclear testing that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a recent study published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal. The revelation dispells the original notion that animals began carrying high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

The study, conducted by German and Austrian scientists and researchers, measured cesium levels in boar meat from Bavaria in Southern Germany using a gamma ray detector to learn from where the high radioactive came.

The researchers found that up to 68 percent of radioactive contamination came from international nuclear testing as they knew a higher ratio of celsium-135 and celsium-137 is inactive of nuclear testing rather than being emitted from reactors.

They also discovered that 88 percent of the meat samples used, which were widely available to purchase and consume, exceeded the safety limit for radioactivity in food. The researchers even concluded: “Once released, radio cesium will remain in the environment for generations and impact food safety immediately and… for decades.”

“It is a cautionary tale that the long-forgotten atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and their fallout still cast a shadow on the environment,” said Georg Steinhauser, who participated in the research.

“Just because they took place 60 years ago doesn’t mean that they no longer impact the ecosystem,” he added.

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Sounders of wild boar living in Southern Germany and Austria have become radioactive following nuclear testing that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a recent study published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal. The revelation dispells the original notion that animals began carrying high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. show more