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PETA, animal rights groups praise Trump admin for phasing out ‘cruel tests on dogs’ and other animals
The Trump administration is receiving an outpouring of support from animal advocacy groups, lawmakers and others for recent announcements to end animal testing within programs at the FDA and EPA.
«PETA applauds the FDA’s decision to stop harming animals and adopt human-relevant testing strategies for evaluating antibody therapies,» Kathy Guillermo, PETA senior vice president, said in a statement.
«It’s a significant step towards meeting the agency’s commitment to replace the use of animals – which PETA has worked hard to promote. All animal use, including failed vaccine and other testing on monkeys at the federally-funded primate centers, must end, and we are calling on the FDA to further embrace 21st-century science,» the PETA statement continued.
PETA’s statement followed the Food and Drug Administration announcement on Thursday that it is phasing out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs, Fox Digital first reported.
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FDA Commissioner Makary and a puppy (Getty Images)
«For too long, drug manufacturers have performed additional animal testing of drugs that have data in broad human use internationally. This initiative marks a paradigm shift in drug evaluation and holds promise to accelerate cures and meaningful treatments for Americans while reducing animal use,» FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, said in comments provided to Fox News Digital.
«By leveraging AI-based computational modeling, human organ model-based lab testing, and real-world human data, we can get safer treatments to patients faster and more reliably, while also reducing R&D costs and drug prices. It is a win-win for public health and ethics.»
Dogs, rats and fish were the primary animals to face testing ahead of Thursday’s announcement, Fox Digital learned.
The phase-out focuses on ending animal testing in regard to researching monoclonal antibody therapies, which are lab-made proteins meant to stimulate the immune system to fight diseases such as cancer, as well as other drugs, according to the press release.
A laboratory mouse is confined. (iStock)
Instead, the FDA will encourage testing on «organoids,» which are artificially grown masses of cells, according to the FDA’s press release.
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Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin announced on the same day that the agency would reinstate a 2019 policy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing at that federal agency. The EPA said in comment that the Biden administration moved away from phasing out animal testing, but that Zeldin is «wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing.»
«Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30% by 2025 and to eliminate it completely by 2035. The Biden administration halted progress on these efforts by delaying compliance deadlines. Administrator Zeldin is wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing,» EPA spokesperson Molly Vaseliou told the Washington Times.
The EPA’s and FDA’s recent announcements also received praise from animal rights groups, including the White Coat Waste Project, which reported in 2021 that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases spent hundreds of thousands of dollars under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership to test beagle dogs with parasites via biting flies.
The logo of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is waved during a protest at the G-7 agriculture ministers meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, on May 13, 2022. (Yann Schreiber/AFP via Getty Images)
«Thank you @DrMakaryFDA for your years of advocacy & outstanding leadership to eliminate FDA red tape that forces companies & tax-funded federal agencies to conduct wasteful & cruel tests on dogs & other animals!» the group posted to X last week.
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«White Coat Waste made historic progress under Trump 45 to cut wasteful and cruel animal testing at the EPA and FDA, some of which was undone by the Biden Administration,» Justin Goodman, senior vice president at White Coat, told Fox News Digital on Sunday.
«We applaud Administrator Zeldin and Commissioner Makary for picking up where Trump left off and prioritizing efforts to cut widely-opposed and wasteful animal tests. This is great news for taxpayers and pet owners as it sends a message to big spending animal abusers across the federal government: Stop the money. Stop the madness!»
Other animal rights groups and lawmakers praised the Trump administration for its recent moves to end animal testing.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«We’re encouraged to see the EPA recommit to phasing out animal testing – a goal we’ve long championed on behalf of the animals trapped in these outdated and painful experiments,» Kitty Block, president and CEO of Humane World for Animals, said in a press release. «But promises alone don’t spare lives. For too long, animals like dogs, rabbits and mice have endured tests that inflict suffering without delivering better science. It’s time to replace these cruel methods with modern, humane alternatives that the public overwhelmingly supports.»
President Donald Trump and a photo of a beagle puppy (Getty Images)
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Other groups have come out and warned that there is not yet a high-tech replacement for animals within the realm of biomedical research and drug testing, and that humane animal testing is still crucial to test prospective drugs for humans.
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Some groups warn that humane animal testing is still crucial to test prospective drugs for humans. (iStock)
«We all want better and faster ways to bring lifesaving treatments to patients,» National Association for Biomedical Research President Matthew R. Bailey said in a press release provided to Fox Digital. «But no AI model or simulation has yet demonstrated the ability to fully replicate all the unknowns about many full biological systems. That’s why humane animal research remains indispensable.»
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Under his first administration, Trump took other steps to protect animals, including signing the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act into law in 2019, which made intentional acts of cruelty a federal crime.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to «pro-terrorist conduct» at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned.
It’s a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard’s refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders.
«This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,» said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. «It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.»…READ MORE
Sec. Kristi Noem and Harvard protests (Reuters)
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La ofensiva de Donald Trump contra los extranjeros en Harvard: qué pasará con los argentinos que están estudiando en la Universidad
La Universidad de Harvard es el mayor referente global en educación y la meca de la mayoría de los estudiantes del mundo y para los argentinos no es una excepción. En esa casa de estudios hay en este momento 58 alumnos e investigadores del país que transitan los antiguos edificios de Boston y que podrían ser afectados por las nuevas políticas del gobierno de Donald Trump, al ser canceladas sus visas.
Buena parte de ellos cursan maestrías en la facultad de Negocios, en la Kennedy de políticas públicas, otros en la Escuela de Artes y Ciencias otros en la de Derecho. Y algunos pocos (4) en Harvard College, que es para alumnos que comienzan su carrera universitaria.
Del total de 58 hay 34 alumnos de college y maestrías y 24 scholars, que son investigadores que residen por algún período en la universidad para hacer algún trabajo específico, según el sitio de Harvard.
Todos han tenido que superar duros obstáculos para llegar a esas aulas: más allá de haber sido muy destacados alumnos en la Argentina, han tenido que rendir exámenes específicos, de idioma y sortear un proceso de admisión muy exigente que incluye ensayos, cartas de recomendación y entrevistas en inglés.
El porcentaje de admisión de Harvard es el más bajo de todas las universidades de los Estados Unidos. Este año solo fue aceptado un 3,4% de los que se postularon.
Los alumnos vienen de 140 países de todo el planeta. Muchos de ellos reciben ayuda financiera para poder cursar. La diversidad geográfica y cultural es uno de los valores que defiende la Universidad, pero ahora los estudiantes internacionales sufren un período de incertidumbre.
Un ejemplo es la santiagueña Nayeli Cardozo, una joven de 18 que fue becada y que pudo cumplir su sueño de estudiar en Harvard. Hija de una maestra y un remisero, estudió en la secundaria Manuel Belgrano de Santiago del Estero y luego de aplicar a 13 universidades en EE.UU. fue aceptada en la que más quería para estudiar Psicología y Economía.
Otro es Federico Repetto, de San Justo, Santa Fe, que se recibió en la Universidad Favaloro con medalla de oro y fue aceptado el año pasado como residente en la red de hospitales de Harvard.
Se estima que son unos 700 los argentinos que han pasado por sus aulas, entre ellos el actual embajador en EE.UU. Alec Oxenford, que estudió un máster en administración de empresas, al igual que su antecesor Fernando Oris de Roa, que había cursado un master en políticas públicas.
También cursaron allí Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Federico Sturzenegger, Juan Carlos De Pablo, Domingo Cavallo y su hija Sonia, entre otros. En Buenos Aires se fundó un Harvard Club of Argentina, que nuclea a buena parte de los egresados del país.
En algunos grupos de chat de ex alumnos estaban conmocionados con la medida anunciada este jueves. Si bien ellos no son los que sufrirán las consecuencias de la decisión del gobierno republicano, estaban conmocionados por el golpe que significaría para su “alma mater”.
“Estamos en shock”, dijo a Clarín una argentina egresada de esa universidad. “Hay un enorme beneficio en tener una comunidad diversa e internacional y perder eso es demasiado”. Pero tenían esperanzas de que el tema pueda arreglarse. “Creo que Harvard tiene el músculo para responder y para llevar el tema a la justicia”, dijo.
Varios de los ex alumnos han firmado en contra de los ataques antisemitas en el campus donde ha estudiado y están en contra de la “militancia paga a favor de Gaza”. “Pero una cosa no quita la otra”, dice la egresada, y afirma que Trump usa ese argumento para intervenir las políticas de la universidad, que es privada.
En esos chats, un egresado europeo se lamentaba por el rumbo que había tomado el país y la pelea con la Universidad. “No estoy seguro de que el Gobierno sepa lo que significa esto. Harvard tiene una red formidable red de alumnos ex presidentes, primeros ministros, un ex secretario general de la ONU, ministros, políticos. Y también en el mundo de los negocios y de las leyes hay graduados”, señaló.
Y advirtió que “mucha gente nos sentimos atacados, muy furiosos con lo que está haciendo el Gobierno y creo que mucha gente puede tomar revancha”.
Pese a las amenazas, la Universidad promete defender a sus alumnos. El sitio de Harvard informaba de las restricciones de visas y afirmaba que «Harvard se compromete a mantener nuestra capacidad de recibir a nuestros estudiantes y académicos internacionales, que provienen de más de 140 países y enriquecen a la Universidad y a esta nación».
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Alex Soros blasted for condemning shooting of Israelis while funding anti-Israel groups
Far-left progressive billionaire Alex Soros is being slammed online for his statement condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers despite funding anti-Israel groups through his Open Society Foundation (OSF).
Soros, who is the son and heir to George Soros’ fortune and philanthropic empire, condemned the killings in an X post, saying «the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the Capital Jewish Museum was evil in its most basic form» and that «this brutal antisemitic act must be condemned in the strongest terms.»
Milgrim and Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy staffers who were set to be engaged, were killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.
D.C. police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, who was taken into custody after the shooting attack. He was allegedly seen pacing outside the museum before he approached a group of four people, including the two victims, and opened fire. Rodriguez then reportedly went into the museum, where he was detained by security. He allegedly shouted «Free, free Palestine!» while in custody.
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Far left progressive billionaire Alex Soros is being slammed online for his statement condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers despite funding anti-Israel groups through his Open Society Foundation (OSF).
Though Soros condemned the killings, his statement was flooded with replies calling out his funding of radical anti-Israel groups that foment anti-Jewish sentiments.
«Alex, you and your father created this problem through the ruthless and international silencing of critics to open borders policies,» said one X user named Joseph Janecka. «Their blood is on your hands as much as their murderers. We will never forget.»
Carl Wheless, another user, commented, «You are behind the hate, so excuse us if you don’t wish to hear from you on the matter.»
Another, Eitan Fischberger, asserted that Soros «funds the revolutionary Marxist group the shooter belonged to.»
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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim who were shot and killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, pose for a picture at an unknown location, in this handout image released by Embassy of Israel to the U.S. on May 22, 2025. Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via REUTERS (Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via REUTERS)
Though the details of Rodriguez’s affiliations are currently unclear as chair of OSF, Soros has helped to fund several leftist groups that have accused Israel of genocide and called for the end of the Jewish state.
In 2023, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, told Fox News Digital that Soros is a mirror image of father George’s anti-Israel agenda.
When asked if Soros would continue to fund anti-Israel entities that bash the Jewish state, Chikli said it «looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist.»
Chikli added that OSF funds Human Rights Watch, which he said, «is attacking Israelis heavily and attacking Israel as an apartheid state and delegitimizing and demonizing Israel.»
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Anti-Israel protesters wave Palestinian flags in Washington Square Park in New York City on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
He also said OSF funds «J Street,» an organization that claims to be pro-Israel but has faced criticism because of its support for positions that allegedly favor Iran’s regime and the Palestinians.
Chikli also noted that the Soros foundation «gives money to radical small Palestinian organizations in Israel that describe Israel as a colonial state and a moral sin.» He cited the NGO Adalah, which means «justice» in Arabic, as an organization «denying the vision of Israel as a Jewish state» in its «published vision for Arab society in Israel.»
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The elder Soros has also faced intense criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for pumping over $15 million into a network of nongovernmental organizations that allegedly support Hamas.
«George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However, I am not surprised,» Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News Digital in December 2023.
«For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel,» added Erdan, who has been leading the diplomatic campaign at the U.N. to spell out Hamas’ crimes against humanity. «They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.»
Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal, Greg Norman, Rachel Wolf and Trey Yingst contributed to this report.
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