The True Cost Project is a watchdog nonprofit exposing taxpayer-funded animal cruelty. We file the records requests, ask the questions, and put institutions on record.
"Over 90% of animal tests do not translate to humans. We are torturing these animals without their consent, often for nothing. We now have incredible alternatives to animal testing ... we can evolve away from the horrors of animal experimentation"
Almira Tanner, Lead Organizer, Direct Action Everywhere
"Peer-reviewed systematic reviews and translational analyses document persistent problems with animal models predicting human outcomes... New Approach Methodologies improve human relevance while reducing animal suffering and scientific/economic waste."
Alanas Petrauskas, Ph.D.
"Animal studies cannot fully capture human biology, which is why most clinical trials fail."
Andrew Nguyen, PhD, Quantitative Biologist
Public money pays for an enormous amount of animal suffering in this country, and most of it happens out of sight of the people footing the bill. We exist to make that spending visible and to hold the institutions behind it accountable to the people who pay for them.
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