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PETA thnaks Trump for saving the animals:

This week PETA penned a letter to “The Honorable Pete Hegseth,” the secretary of defense, specifically thanking “President Donald J. Trump” and Navy Secretary John Phelan for the branch’s ban on Navy-funded dog and cat experiments. Phelan on Tuesday terminated all Department of the Navy testing on cats and dogs, saying it was “long overdue” when he announced the ban and signed the order on X. However, PETA wants the Pentagon to go further. It asked for a “comprehensive audit” that would root out “waste, fraud, and abuse in cruel and outdated animal experimentation” in all the defense branches. These, the letter stated, included banning the use of animals in decompression and oxygen toxicity tests, stopping the Army’s use of animals in weapon-wounding experiments, and disallowing defense funding of tests on animals at foreign institutions. Specifically, PETA reported that the Navy has “wasted more than $5.1 million in federal funding since 2020 for decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests” at universities around the country, using pigs, rodents, and other animals.

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