Faster
We have known this is wrong for decades. Why has it not stopped?
Tonight, in Columbia, Missouri, there is a four-month-old beagle puppy in a cage with hundreds of ticks glued to her skin.
Her name is on a federal grant. Your tax dollars paid for her. She came from a breeder in Wisconsin called Ridglan Farms, cited for over 300 violations, where the head veterinarian had his license suspended, where surgeries have been performed without anesthesia, where roughly 3,000 dogs are warehoused in filthy wire cages. She is one of nearly 400 beagles in this single experiment. Many are intentionally denied pain relief. Most will be killed.
In Seattle, six days from now, an NIH grant comes up for renewal. The grant funds a University of Washington lab that has spent decades intentionally breeding dogs to develop muscular dystrophy. The lab plans to ask for more money. White Coat Waste’s latest investigation, published today, has the videos.
In another Missouri lab, federal funding is paying researchers to drill into cats’ skulls. Some of those cats came from a shelter, where they had been dropped off as former pets. The lab also drains dangerous amounts of their blood to use as donor blood for other experiments.
This is not history. This is happening right now, in April 2026, in the United States of America, with your tax dollars.
I want you to sit with that.
Why I Care About This
Before I built and exited a seven-figure pet services business. Before I trained as an Integrative Pet Health Coach. Before pet parents started working with me alongside their conventional vets to help their animals thrive and live the longest, healthiest lives possible.
I worked in advance operations. WH. DHS. HHS.
I crossed paths with Anthony Fauci in that work, long before COVID made him a household name.
I do not, as a rule, name people I have observed in government work and speak unflatteringly of them in public. That is the rule I keep. I am breaking it for him, here, on purpose, because what was done on his watch and what continues to be done in his shadow is not a matter of opinion or political disagreement. It is a matter of what is on the record.
To be clear about what kind of proximity I am talking about: I did not work with him. I do not have inside-NIH stories. I crossed paths with him at a handful of events where as a part of advance teams we were running the choreography for principals he was angling to stand next to.
In advance, you size people up quickly. You make decisions about them quickly. It is the job. And what you learn fast, in those rooms, is who is genuinely working the mission and who is working the room.
Fauci stood out, and not in a good way. He wanted to be the star. He wanted to be the smartest person in the room. He chased the camera angles. He competed for the airtime that was not his to take.
It is a small observation. It is also a tell. The kind of person who behaves like that in those rooms is not the kind of person you want with sign-off authority on $6.5 billion of federal grants and the lives of every animal in every lab those grants flow to.
The country had a sudden reason to pay attention to him in 2020. I had already been paying attention. The COVID-era Fauci was the same man I had read in those rooms a decade earlier. Nothing about who he became in front of the cameras surprised me.
His record speaks louder than I ever could. So let me get to the record.
He admitted to Congress that he signed off on the animal experiments his division funded. He spent over half a century at NIH, personally conducting deadly virus tests on primates. He oversaw a $6.5 billion division. He funneled billions of taxpayer dollars to animal labs around the world, every year, for decades.
To put $6.5 billion in context: that is the budget of NIAID alone, one of 27 institutes inside NIH. By itself, it is roughly the size of the entire annual budget of the FDA. It is roughly the size of the entire annual budget of NOAA. It is roughly two-thirds the size of the entire EPA, the entire CDC, or the entire National Science Foundation. One sub-agency. One man’s signature on the grants flowing out of it. A budget that rivaled federal departments charged with keeping our food, our weather forecasts, our environment, and our basic science apparatus running.
Let me put his federal salary in context, because most people do not understand what he was actually being paid by the public to do this work.
Fauci’s final federal salary, per OpenTheBooks Freedom of Information Act records, was $480,654 per year, on track to rise above $530,000 by 2024 had he stayed.
The President of the United States makes $400,000.
The Vice President makes $235,100.
The Speaker of the House makes $223,500.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court makes $270,700.
A four-star general in the United States military makes $268,000.
A United States Senator or House Representative makes $174,000.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, technically two layers above Fauci in the org chart, makes roughly $221,400.
The median American household income in 2022 was about $74,580.
For nineteen of the last twenty years, Anthony Fauci was the highest-paid federal employee in the United States government. Out-earning the president. Out-earning every general. Out-earning his own boss. Out-earning his boss’s boss. Out-earning the 4.3 million other federal employees alongside him.
You might be asking, reasonably, how does that even happen?
The short answer: a permanent pay adjustment, signed in December 2004 during the George W. Bush administration, justified by Fauci’s biodefense and bioterrorism work after the 2001 anthrax attacks. OpenTheBooks unearthed the memo through a FOIA request. The “permanent” part is the part to remember. It compounded with normal federal raises every single year for the next eighteen years.
In the year 2020, his household made nearly $1.8 million, per financial disclosures analyzed by Forbes.
That was the year Americans lost their jobs, watched their parents die without being able to visit them, and were told by him to stay home.
He called it public service. I call it manipulation.
The salary was the headline number, but the manipulation was always the deeper story.
Here is what manipulation looks like at his level.
In May 2021, Fauci sat under oath in front of a Senate hearing and was asked directly by Senator Rand Paul whether NIH had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. His answer, on the record: “The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Four months later, in September 2021, The Intercept obtained internal NIH documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents showed that NIH-funded experiments at Wuhan had produced modified bat coronaviruses that, when introduced into humanized mice, replicated up to 10,000 times faster than the parent virus they were derived from. Multiple virologists, including Vincent Racaniello at Columbia and Richard Ebright at Rutgers, went on the record stating that this was textbook gain-of-function research, regardless of the narrower technical definitions Fauci and his team were citing.
On October 20, 2021, NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak sent a letter to Congress acknowledging the experiments had produced an “unexpected result” of an enhanced bat coronavirus. On the same day, NIH quietly removed its existing definition of gain-of-function research from its public website and replaced it with new terminology, “enhanced potential pandemic pathogen” research, designed to render Fauci’s prior testimony technically defensible.
In September 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services formally terminated all funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, stating in writing that NIH had determined the lab “may have conducted an experiment yielding a level of viral activity which was greater than permitted under the terms of the grant... which possibly did lead or could lead to health issues or other unacceptable outcomes.”
Read that sequence again.
He told Congress one version of the truth.
The grant documents told another.
When the discrepancy became public, his agency rewrote the definition of the term he had used.
Three years later, the federal government acknowledged the discrepancy and pulled the funding from the lab he had defended.
That is the operational pattern. Narrow the definition in public. Authorize the broader scope on paper. When the gap is exposed, change the dictionary.
This is not new behavior for him.
Fauci’s salary was originally bumped to record-breaking levels in 2004 specifically for his work on biodefense and bioterrorism research following the 2001 anthrax attacks. He then used that portfolio to authorize hundreds of millions of dollars in gain-of-function and pandemic-pathogen research at labs around the world, including Wuhan. The man who was paid the highest federal salary in America to prevent pandemics was directing taxpayer dollars into the precise category of research that pandemic-prevention experts had been begging the government to stop funding for over a decade.
The 2002 NIAID Strategic Plan for Biodefense Research, which Fauci’s agency authored and used as the foundational justification for that pay increase, became the policy framework under which billions of dollars flowed to risky pathogen research, including the foreign animal labs documented in this piece. Two decades later, those grants are still being renewed.
The Wuhan story is not the exception. It is the pattern.
The beagles. The monkeys. The cats. The dogs intentionally bred to go blind. The bats infected with Ebola. The puppies bought from a notorious Wisconsin mill and tortured with tick infestations.
He left the agency in December 2022 with a personal net worth, with his wife, of over $11 million, and a first-year federal pension reported by the watchdog group OpenTheBooks at $414,000, described as the largest retirement payout in the history of the federal government.
Then he started getting paid again.
He took a Distinguished University Professor appointment at Georgetown University, in the School of Medicine, with a second appointment at the McCourt School of Public Policy. He signed with Leading Authorities, a speakers bureau, where he is now exclusively represented and where his fee for a single appearance has been reported at $50,000 to $100,000.
In April 2025, the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs paid him $75,000 for one evening’s lecture. The check was funded by the Carlson Family Foundation. Yale School of Medicine invited him to give the 2023 commencement address. The University of Maryland, Roger Williams University, and The City College of New York had already done the same in 2022.
He also published a memoir.
It is titled On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.
Read that title again.
Public. Service.
A man who left public service with an $11 million net worth, the largest federal pension in American history, an exclusive speakers bureau contract worth six figures per appearance, and a tenured chair at one of the most prestigious universities in the country wrote a book about his journey in public service. He is now selling that book on the same lecture circuit that pays him $75,000 to walk on stage and talk about it.
While he collects, the labs his division funded continue. The beagles in Missouri are still in cages. The dogs at the University of Washington are still being bred to develop muscular dystrophy. The grants are still being renewed. His name is still on the protocols.
He should not be on a stage. He should be in prison.
For all of it.
A Hound Named Violet
I knew Violet.
Her mom is Julie Germany. A longtime advocate who has spent years inside this fight, working on the legislative and watchdog side of animal welfare. The kind of advocate whose work makes the headlines but whose name most readers will not recognize, which is exactly how she has always operated. Heads down, building.
Violet was born and bred inside a federal experimentation lab. She had never seen the outdoors. She had never set foot on grass. She had never slept anywhere but a cage.
Julie took her home.
Adjusting was hard. Violet was terrified of stairs. The family cat, Bert, eventually taught her how to climb them. That sentence is one I will probably remember for the rest of my life. A coonhound who had never seen the sky, learning to climb the stairs of her new home from a cat. That is what every lab survivor deserves and almost none of them get. The Dodo published Violet’s full story if you want to spend time with her.
Violet has passed on now.
A bipartisan bill bearing her name, Violet's Law, also known as the AFTER Act, has been introduced in Congress five times since 2019. The current version was re-introduced in the Senate in March of this year by Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, with a House companion led by Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
Here is the part most people get confused about, and it matters. Pieces of what the bill is trying to accomplish have already happened. But only at specific agencies, and only by administrative policy, not by federal law.
Following years of pressure from White Coat Waste and the bipartisan coalition that backs Violet’s Law, the Department of Veterans Affairs enacted the first-ever lab animal retirement policy in 2018. The National Institutes of Health followed in August 2019. The FDA added one in late 2019. The Department of Defense has its own. Those policies are why some lab survivors, including the squirrel monkeys retired from the FDA’s nicotine lab and the cats released from the USDA Kitten Slaughterhouse, are alive today.
Those are real wins. They should be celebrated.
But here is what they are not. They are not law. Each one is an internal agency policy that any future administration, NIH director, or FDA commissioner can rescind with the stroke of a pen. They cover certain agencies. They do not cover all of them. The CDC, USDA, EPA, NASA, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Interior all still experiment on animals, and every one of them still has the option to kill survivors when the experiments end, because no federal statute requires anything different.
Violet’s Law would convert all of it from administrative practice to federal law. Permanent. Agency-wide. All federally regulated species. Required, not encouraged. So that when a Violet survives, she goes home. Every time, at every agency, regardless of who runs the place next.
It has had bipartisan cosponsors every single time it has been introduced. It has never been brought to a final vote.
We should not need a law to do this. We should never have needed Violet to have lived through what she lived through. We certainly should not have needed seven years and five separate introductions to get a bill named for her across the finish line.
But we do, and we did, and we have, and the bill is sitting in committee right now waiting to be moved.
That is what advocacy looks like over a long arc. You do the work. You keep doing the work. Then one day, a hound walks out of a lab in your arms, and a few years later her name is on a Senate bill that will save thousands more like her.
That is what the work makes possible.
That is what we are fighting for.
Where We Actually Are Right Now
Let me be careful here, because I want to be fair.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has done real work. He has publicly committed to ending animal testing, more than once. He has called the primate research centers wasteful and corrupt. He has pledged a dramatic reduction in animal testing at NIH. He has said the badge of a humane nation is the way it treats its animals.
I believe he means it.
I also know that under his NIH, the spending has not yet matched the speech.
The reporting from White Coat Waste Project, released to coincide with Tax Week, lays it out.
A word about WCW before I walk you through it. They are a 501(c)(3) bipartisan government watchdog. Their reporting is sourced through Freedom of Information Act requests, federal grant records, and litigation. They publish audited financial statements going back to 2018. They are the watchdog organization that made animal testing a bipartisan issue and a Trump White House priority. The New York Times wrote about how they did it.
Their track record, in their own words: rescued, spared, or saved over 29,000 animal lives. Cut $99 million in wasteful federal spending. Shut down over 114 labs and experiments. First exposed taxpayer funding of the Wuhan lab. Uncovered and stopped Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests. Closed the U.S. government’s largest cat laboratory. Ended dog and cat testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Closed the FDA’s largest primate lab. Won the first-ever federal policies to retire and release lab survivors as pets at NIH, VA, DOD, and FDA.
Those are receipts. Verifiable, audited, and in the public record.
When I cite them in this piece, I am citing reporting that has already changed federal policy and that has been credible enough to bring conservatives and progressives onto the same side of a federal issue, which almost nothing else does in 2026.
Here is what is on the books right now, in their reporting:
In Washington, DC, inside NIH’s own laboratories, monkeys are being infected with Ebola, HIV-like viruses, COVID, and tuberculosis. Funding renewed.
In Columbia, Missouri, the beagle tick-bite experiments are continuing. Ridglan Farms is the supplier. As of June 2025, NIH issued a new $1 million grant to a pharmaceutical company for drug toxicity tests on 57 more beagle puppies from that same mill. The grant runs through 2027.
In Athens, Georgia, NIH gave $1 million in new funding for experiments where dogs and cats are intentionally infected with parasites. The animals “vocalize in pain” before being killed. Those are the words from the protocol.
In Portland, Oregon, monkeys are being infected with pneumonia, HIV-like viruses, and malaria.
In Los Angeles, primates are being infected with viruses that cause vomiting, seizures, and hemorrhagic disease.
On Monkey Island, in South Carolina, Fauci’s primate operation, funding renewed.
Since the start of fiscal year 2026, NIH has handed out over $30 million for 40 new primate experiments. Over $14 million of that came after RFK Jr.’s December 2025 pledge to end primate testing completely.
So this is not a piece against the Secretary. He is doing more than his predecessors did. The CDC primate labs are being shut down. The fetal tissue ban is back in place. New dog and cat experiments have not received fiscal year 2026 funding because pressure worked.
This is a piece about the people underneath him still cutting the checks. The career bureaucrats at NIH. The university grant recipients. The pharmaceutical companies running toxicity tests on puppies bought from a mill. The system that keeps renewing grants on autopilot while the press conference happens upstairs.
The MAHA betrayal is not the man. It is the bureaucracy still doing this in his name.
Why. Can’t. It. All. Happen. Faster.
I keep coming back to this. Not as a slogan. As a real question.
Why is it taking this long to defund a beagle mill? Why are we still arguing about whether NIH should buy puppies from a facility cited for 300 violations? Why do we need investigative journalism, FOIA lawsuits, and a coast-to-coast billboard campaign to stop $1 million in new toxicity testing on 57 puppies?
Why are puppy mills still legal at all?
Why are pets still classified as property under federal law? Why do animal cruelty convictions in most states still result in fines smaller than parking tickets in DC? Why does a documented FBI-tracked link between animal cruelty and human violence (assault, domestic abuse, homicide) still not produce serious federal sentencing?
We do not need new science to answer these questions. We have known what we know for decades.
We need:
Federal reclassification of pets. Most people I talk to do not know this. The law treats your dog the same way it treats your sofa. If a stranger destroys your sofa, you have a property crime. If a stranger destroys your dog, you have a property crime. There is no separate legal category for the living, breathing soul who sleeps at the foot of your bed and waits at the window for you to come home. That has to change. Pets are not property. They are family, and the law has to catch up to what every pet parent already knows.
Real animal cruelty laws with teeth. The state-by-state patchwork has failed.
A federal ban on puppy mills. Not licensing reform. A ban. And while we are at it, a federal ban on backyard breeders too.
I know what backyard breeders produce because one of them produced my dog Bella. She lived in a crate for three years before I got her. She was underweight. She was battling infections nobody had treated. She did not know what grass felt like under her paws. She did not know how to walk on pavement. She did not know how to walk on a leash. She did not know how to climb stairs. Three years in a crate will do that to a dog.
She is one of the lucky ones. She is in my home, asleep on the sofa, as I write this. The dogs still in those crates are not. Federal action is what closes the pipeline that produced her. And what produces every other dog like her right now, today, in every state.
An end to NIH funding for dog and cat experiments. The science has moved on.
A closed pipeline from puppy mills to laboratories. No federal agency should be allowed to purchase animals from a facility under criminal investigation.
Passage of Violet’s Law. This bill has been introduced five times since 2019, twice in the Senate, three times in the House, under two different presidents, with bipartisan cosponsors each time. It has never reached the floor for a final vote. Last Congress alone, it had 116 House cosponsors and 19 Senate cosponsors. Bipartisan support that strong on virtually any other issue would have moved a bill through both chambers years ago. This one keeps stalling. Pass it.
None of this is radical. All of it is overdue.
What This Has to Do With Integrative Pet Health
This is the publication where I write about food, vaccines, gut health, and the systems shaping what happens to your pet at every appointment.
It is the same fight.
The pet is not separate from the system. The food in the bag, the medication on the prescription pad, the policy at the federal agency, the puppy mill in Wisconsin, the lab in Missouri. These are all connected. They are connected by the same logic that treats animals as commodities, the same logic that says profitable cruelty is still legitimate medicine.
Every time I help a client move their dog from kibble to species-appropriate food. Every time I sit with a pet parent thinking through a vaccine schedule. Every time I help someone read bloodwork that came back “normal” but did not feel right. I am pushing against the same system. The one that says do not ask. Do not look upstream. Do not question what is in the bag, the syringe, or the grant.
The integrative pet health frame says ask. Look upstream. Question all of it.
And even when you think you have questioned it all, question it all again.
That is what this is. The same work, scaled up to the federal level.
What You Can Do Today
White Coat Waste built a tool for exactly this moment. MAHAbetrayed.org. One click sends an email to RFK Jr., your members of Congress, and Trump administration officials, asking them to defund Fauci-era animal labs and follow through on what was promised. Ninety seconds.
Then go further.
Call your senators and ask them to co-sponsor Violet’s Law. Mention it by name. Tell them it has been introduced five times since 2019 with bipartisan support and has never been brought to a final vote. Tell them you want it pulled out of committee, brought to the floor, and passed. Senator Collins of Maine and Senator Peters of Michigan have introduced the current Senate version. Representative Mace of South Carolina has the House version. If your senator or representative is not yet a cosponsor, ask why.
Call your representatives. Tell them you want federal pet reclassification on the agenda. Tell them you want a federal puppy mill ban. Tell them you will be watching the fiscal year 2027 NIH spending bill and you will know which of them voted to keep buying puppies from Ridglan.
Pressure works when it is sustained. White Coat Waste’s pressure ended fetal tissue experiments on animals. Their pressure shut down CDC primate labs. Their pressure cut transgender monkey experiments. Their pressure has so far prevented any new fiscal year 2026 funding for dog and cat experiments.
The wins came when enough people kept showing up.
In a line widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, the moral standard is set this way:
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Whether or not Gandhi said those exact words, the idea has carried through philosophy and theology and ordinary common sense for as long as humans have written about ethics. Schopenhauer wrote that compassion for animals is intimately tied to goodness of character. Kant argued that the way a person treats an animal is a reflection of what they are capable of doing to a person. Anatole France believed loving an animal awakens part of the human soul. Across centuries, across continents, across faiths, the conclusion has been the same.
How a nation treats its animals is who that nation is.
So who are we right now.
We are a nation that spends $20 billion a year experimenting on dogs, cats, primates, and other creatures we say we love. We are a nation where pets are property under federal law. We are a nation that allows a Wisconsin facility to warehouse 3,000 dogs in wire cages for sale to laboratories. We are a nation where a bipartisan bill to retire lab survivors has been introduced five times in seven years and never reached a final vote. We are a nation where the man who funded much of this for half a century is paid $75,000 an evening to talk about his journey in public service.
That is the assessment Gandhi’s standard would hand back to us tonight.
But that is not who we have to be.
It is 2026. The science has moved on. The public is on side. The bipartisan support is there. The watchdog reporting is published, audited, and verified. The bills are written. The senators and representatives championing them are named. The action tools are built and ready. What is missing is the pressure of enough people deciding, all at once, that they will not accept this for another year. Or another month. Or another week.
The time is now.
Not a year from now. Not after the next election. Not when it is more convenient. Now. While the four-month-old beagle in Missouri is still alive. While the dogs at the University of Washington can still be saved from the next renewal. While Violet’s Law is sitting in committee waiting for one more push.
Be one of the people who pushes.
Faster.
Sources and Further Reading
Every claim in this piece is sourced. If you want to verify any of it, here is where to look.
On the federal animal labs and ongoing experiments:
White Coat Waste Project is the bipartisan watchdog whose Freedom of Information Act investigations and federal grant analysis form the spine of the lab reporting in this piece. Their full investigations on the beagle tick-bite experiments, the University of Washington dog labs, the cat skull experiments, the Wuhan funding, and the agency-by-agency lab status are all on their site. They publish audited financials going back to 2018.
MAHAbetrayed.org is the action tool referenced in this piece. One email reaches Secretary Kennedy, your members of Congress, and Trump administration officials.
The Dodo’s coverage of Violet is the canonical story of Violet’s life with Julie Germany.
White Coat Waste’s March 2026 announcement of Violet’s Law re-introduction covers the current Senate bill, sponsors, and legislative status.
On Fauci’s federal salary, pension, and household income:
OpenTheBooks is the government transparency nonprofit, founded by Adam Andrzejewski, whose FOIA litigation and analysis surfaced the salary records, the 2004 permanent pay adjustment memo, and the projected pension figures cited in this piece. Their reporting was published in Forbes between 2021 and 2022 and is archived on their site. The $1.8 million household income figure for 2020 was reported by Forbes based on financial disclosures analyzed by OpenTheBooks.
On the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology:
The Intercept’s September 2021 reporting on the FOIA-obtained NIH grant documents is the original source for the 10,000x viral replication finding. Vincent Racaniello at Columbia and Richard Ebright at Rutgers are the virologists quoted on the technical definition.
The October 20, 2021 Tabak letter to the House Oversight Committee acknowledged the experiments. The September 2023 HHS termination letter to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is on the federal record. The May 2021 Senate hearing transcript where Fauci testified under oath about gain-of-function is publicly archived through C-SPAN and the Senate HELP Committee.
On Violet’s Law (the AFTER Act) and bipartisan animal welfare legislation:
The current Senate version is sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Gary Peters (D-MI). The House companion is led by Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC). The bill text and current status can be tracked at congress.gov by searching “AFTER Act” or the bill number.
On Fauci’s post-government compensation:
His Georgetown University faculty appointment is on the school’s website. His Leading Authorities speakers bureau profile lists him as exclusively represented. The University of Minnesota’s $75,000 lecture fee, funded by the Carlson Family Foundation, was reported in the local press at the time of the April 2025 Humphrey School appearance. His memoir, On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, was published in 2024.
On the documented link between animal cruelty and human violence:
The FBI tracks animal cruelty as a Group A offense in its National Incident-Based Reporting System, the same category as homicide and arson. The Animal Legal Defense Fund maintains research on the documented escalation pattern from animal cruelty to interpersonal violence.
On the moral framing in the closing:
The Mahatma Gandhi quote on the moral progress of nations is widely attributed to him but the original source has not been definitively documented. The supporting philosophical positions cited (Schopenhauer, Kant, Anatole France) can be found in their respective primary works on ethics.
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