WatchDog Group:Unnecessary Drug Testing On Dogs Held Up A Potential Treatment For COVID-19

Jul 6, 2020

Justin Goodman with the White Coat Waste Project joined the Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill to bring attention to taxpayer funded animal experiments happening in the U.S.

The Food and Drug Administration didn't respond to a request for comment.

Justin Goodman with the White Coat Waste Project joined the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill to bring attention to taxpayer funded animal experiments happening in the U.S.

Goodman went on to explain how “unnecessary” drug testing on dogs held up a potential treatment for coronavirus. (RELATED: Lara Trump: The Trump Administration Is Phasing Out Testing On Animals, But Don’t Expect The Media To Tell You.)

Goodman said that the “poster child” was a company called Vanda pharmaceuticals, which is based in Washington, D.C.

“A couple of years ago they had a drug that they had already tested extensively on animals including dogs in some trials and humans, the animal test because the FDA required it and humans because obviously that’s the right thing to do, they already had this drug in late stage human trials, it was already safe and effective, the data looked good, the FDA halted the trial.”

Goodman said the FDA told Vanda to do “a 9 month study on dogs” and if they didn’t, human trials would not continue.

“They were at a standstill,” he said noting that the drug never made it to market. “The insult to injury here is that the same drug that FDA held up two years ago is now a potential treatment for COVID related phenomena.”

According to the animal watchdog group, taxpayers are paying over $20 billion a year for “wasteful and cruel” experiments on dogs and other animals.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is also a supporter of the effort to end drug testing on dogs. He issued this statement to the Daily Caller:

It’s sickening that government bureaucrats are forcing drug makers to torture and kill puppies in outdated and ineffective testing when those companies would prefer more efficient and humane alternatives. Cutting this FDA red tape and allowing companies to avoid unnecessary dog testing will improve drug development, save dogs, and expedite the progress of treatments for deadly diseases.

The Food and Drug Administration didn’t respond to a request for comment

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/06/justin-goodman-white-coat-waste-project-drug-testing-dogs-coronavirus-cure/

Dutch Police Arrest 6 People After Discovering Homemade Prison, Torture Chamber

(epstein had a dentist chair on his island)

July 07, 2020

Dutch police arrested six men after conducting a raid on sea containers that had been converted into a homemade prison and torture chamber complete with a dentist’s chair and tools a high ranking police officer said Tuesday.

Authorities said police raided the makeshift prison and torture chamber before they could be used and informed potential victims, who then went into hiding, the Associated Press reported. Dutch national police officers reportedly arrested the six men June 22 on suspicion of kidnapping and assault.

The discovery was made last month after investigative officers decoded encrypted messages using the EncroChat secure communication tool, which police forces across Europe have already used to arrest hundreds of organized crime suspects, according to The Washington Post.

Using the code name 26Lemont, the police decrypted messages from an EncroChat phone that included pictures of the sea containers and the dentist’s chair, and referred to the makeshift prison as the “treatment room” and the “ebi,” a reference to Nieuw Vosseveld maximum-security prison, the Associated Press reported.

TOPSHOT - Picture taken on January 3, 2019 shows overturned containers on the container ship MSC Zoe lying in the harbour of Bremerhaven, northern Germany. - The cargo ship caught on January 2, 2019 in rough North Sea weather lost at least 270 containers, including some holding potentially dangerous substances, the Dutch and German coastguards said. (Photo by Carmen Jaspersen / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read CARMEN JASPERSEN/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

Overturned sea containers on the ship MSC Zoe lying in the harbor of Bremerhaven, Germany (Carmen Jaspersen/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

During the raid, a heavily-armed arrest team blasted down the doors of seven sea containers located in a warehouse in a small village near the border of Belgium called Wouwse Plantage, according to the Associated Press.

A search of the containers revealed hedge cutters, scalpels and pliers, which police say “were likely intended to torture victims.” (RELATED: Dutch Police Arrest 7 Men Who Were Preparing For A Major Attack)

Andy Kraag, head of the country’s National Investigation Service, stated at a news conference last week that there were indications of a torture device, although the police did not disclose the full nature of the investigation, according to Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

In a police report Tuesday, Kragg stated that “six of the containers were intended as cells in which people could be tied up and one container was intended as a torture chamber.” He also praised the success of the 26Lemont investigation, the Associated Press reported.

A court in Amsterdam has ordered the six suspects to be detained for 90 days as investigations continue in the city of Rotterdam, which was a base of operations for the criminals according to the Associated Press.

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https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/dutch-police-arrest-homemade-prison-torture-chamber-encrochat/