Fauci’s NIAID Used Taxpayer Money for Dogs To Be ‘Eaten Alive’ in Cruel Experiment

Not many things tug at our heartstrings more than man’s best friend.

But sometimes, man doesn’t uphold his end of the friendship bargain. Sometimes, he even chooses to inflict pain.

You’ve heard of campaigns against animal testing and experimentation. Maybe you’ve even advocated against these practices at some point — but you’ll be stunned to learn you’ve been bankrolling cruel animal experiments all along.

You’d think Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top medical scientist, would share ethical concerns about taxpayer-funded animal cruelty.

But that’s clearly not the case.

According to The Federalist, Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases sent part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia so scientists could perform “cruel experiments on beagles.”

The nonpartisan watchdog group the White Coat Waste Project released a shocking report detailing the mistreatment of the beagles abused in the “study,” according to the outlet.

Experimenters drugged the dogs and “ their heads in mesh cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies.”

They starved the flies beforehand to make them hungry and isolated the beagles in the cages for nine consecutive nights, “using them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.”

In the WCWP’s words, the dogs were “eaten alive.”

To an animal lover (and rational person) like myself, “unbelievable” does not even begin to describe this abuse.