Tell Congress: End Live Tissue Training at the Dept. of Justice

The Dept. of Justice (DOJ) is stabbing, shooting, and burning animals alive with your tax money.

Submit the form below to email your members of Congress and urge them to cut wasteful spending on DOJ's live tissue training.

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As a constituent, I urge you to cut tax funding for wasteful, unnecessary, and cruel live tissue training (LTT) exercises taking place at the Dept. of Justice (DOJ).

LTT is the practice of intentionally wounding live animals – usually stabbing and shooting pigs,
goats, and sometimes dogs to then have trainees crudely attempt to repair the damage. I was troubled to learn from White Coat Waste Project that both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshall Service have employed LTT as recently as 2019.

This practice at the DOJ is unnecessary. Other federal agencies have switched to human patient simulators that government studies have repeatedly shown are more effective and cost-efficient than LTT. The Pentagon has stated that LTT is “outdated and cost-prohibitive” and that “live tissue training options are not anatomically accurate.”

I also understand the DOJ has already invested in the human simulation technology needed to make this transition. Unlike live animals, human simulators can be reused indefinitely – saving both taxpayer dollars and animals’ lives.

Polls show that a majority of taxpayers like me want Congress to bring an end to LTT at the DOJ.

Fortunately, Congress defunded LTT at the DOJ in the 2023 federal spending bill following advocacy by White Coat Waste Project and taxpayers like me.

Please take action to permanently defund the DOJs cruel and unnecessary LTT exercises.

Thank you,

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