At this point, we know the United States government most likely funded the creation of COVID-19 in a Wuhan lab via grants to perform animal torture (gain-of-function) research.
Has that made our agencies rethink these programs? Led to gain-of-function research being re-banned? Caused enough pressure on the U.S. government to make it political suicide to keep funding labs in the territories of our biggest enemies? No. This is the government we’re talking about here; don’t be silly.
The White Coat Waste Project, which is the animal welfare organization for sane people, was the first to present the smoking gun evidence on Wuhan’s coronavirus funding. And it hasn’t let up on the gas from there. Its main priority is ending taxpayer-funded animal torture. (Since the U.S. government is actually the main funder of animal torture in the world, it finds this to be a more worthwhile use of time than throwing fake blood on people.)
Its investigators recently uncovered yet another U.S. taxpayer grant, this time out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, totaling at least $1 million. The money is being spent on a collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (the Wuhan animal lab’s parent organization) and a Wuhan lab scientist to see if they can make “highly pathogenic avian influenza” more contagious to mammals in cruel and dangerous gain-of-function experiments.
Sounds eerily familiar, doesn’t it?
According to a report by the White Coat Waste Project, “Government records uncovered by WCW show the taxpayer-funded USDA-CCP collaboration is currently scheduled to be funded through 2026. It involves experiments that use the gain-of-function technique of repeatedly infecting ducks, geese, quail, and other animals with wild bird flu viruses to force the pathogens to evolve into unnatural lab-created strains and study their ‘potential to jump into mammalian hosts.’”
It’s worth mentioning that the specific bird flu viruses being experimented on (H5NX, H7N9, and H9N2) are dangerous to humans and have already caused deadly outbreaks.
In a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) demanded answers on these revelations.
“Does USDA have protocols for screening or monitoring research collaborators from state-affiliated research institutions in China, Russia, or other adversarial nations?” Ernst asked alongside a number of other questions, which also included items such as, “Does the USDA have any restrictions on the funding of gain-of-function research with potential pandemic pathogens, including safeguards to halt research if a pathogen becomes too virulent?”
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We know the answer to this is likely no. The truth is the government is sending money to foreign adversaries to run needless, risky experiments with little to no accountability.
Congress can stop these practices now, and it should.
Hannah Cox is the president and co-founder of BASEDPolitics and a fellow for the White Coat Waste Project.