Editing Animal testing (section)

===Activism===
There are various examples of activists utilizing [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]] requests to obtain information about taxpayer funding of animal testing. For example, the White Coat Waste Project, a group of activists that hold that taxpayers should not have
[[File:Animal Testing Protestors.jpg|thumb|Anti-animal testing activists protesting in the streets of London in 2009]]
to pay $20 billion every year for experiments on animals,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/|title=White Coat Waste Project|access-date=8 March 2022}}</ref> highlighted that the [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] provided $400,000 in taxpayer money to fund experiments in which 28 beagles were infected by disease-causing parasites.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/11/15/saving-dogs-from-government-research-labs-gets-some-bipartisan-attention/|title=Should dogs be guinea pigs in government research? A bipartisan group says no.|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=15 November 2016}}</ref> The White Coat Project found reports that said dogs taking part in the experiments were "vocalizing in pain" after being injected with foreign substances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2021/07/30/fauci-funding-wasteful-deadly-dog-tests/|title=WCW EXPOSÉ: FAUCI SPENT $424K ON BEAGLE EXPERIMENTS, DOGS BITTEN TO DEATH BY FLIES|date=30 July 2021}}</ref> Following public outcry, [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)]] made a call to action that all members of the [[National Institute of Health]] resign effective immediately<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/peta-calls-for-dr-fauci-to-resign-our-position-is-clear|title=PETA calls for Dr. Fauci to resign: 'Our position is clear'|website=[[Fox News]] |date=5 November 2021}}</ref> and that there is a "need to find a new NIH director to replace the outgoing [[Francis Collins]] who will shut down research that violates the dignity of nonhuman animals."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.peta.org/blog/fauci-niaid-puppies-animal-testing/|title=Experimenters Fed Puppies' Heads to Infected Flies, but That's Not All Fauci's NIH Funded|date=25 October 2021}}</ref>