A trip to any urban area ran by Democrats would have been cheaper.
Cosmetic companies often take heat for animal testing that they rarely — if ever — conduct anymore. Instead, it’s our nation’s universities that are the main culprits, wasting billions of our tax dollars and millions of animal lives for stupid, cruel, and useless experiments.
Uncle Sam doles out nearly $30 billion a year specifically for university research, approximately half of which is spent on animal testing subsidized by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, NASA, and other agencies.
Harvard operates a taxpayer-funded mouse “fight club” (Harvard’s words, not mine) in which researchers breed aggressive mice, get them drunk, and force them to fight one another in scored matches not unlike dogfights. The price tag? $860,000 in taxpayer funds just last year.
At Princeton, experimenters confine monkeys in tiny cages, lock them in restraint devices, and record their screeching to create computer simulations of what it might sound like for a monkey to say “Will you marry me?” Your bill for this project was $339,395 in 2017 and over $3 million since 2007.