Maha reveals a new initiative that unites the GOP with unusual bed comrades

The Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement attracted a wide range of Americans for various reasons, but, more recently, one of the main animal rights groups in the country, PETA, has teamed up with the Trump administration and the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to push one of his latest initiatives.

Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would spend $ 87 million on a new standardized organoid modeling center (SOM), which will seek alternative methods to reduce the dependence of scientists with regard to animals for biomedical research tests. The initiative also includes policies aimed at supporting the remediation of animals used in scientific research.

“We have worked with the NIH to give them general information on the fields of research on diseases where animal experiences have failed if a lot, and there is the most potential to really change the game to human relevant methods,” said Emily Trunnell, director of progress and awareness of people. “About a month ago, we sent them these seven horrible subsidies … Anyone could look at the things they do to love monkeys and dogs and be like, there is no way for taxpayers to finance this. We continue to push them in this way. We are favorable and provide help where we are asked, and we think they were going in the right direction.”

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The secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Center and the USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins, on the right, speak with members of the foot of the mountain farm, a seller of the first inaugural American farmer market on the National Mall held on Monday, August 4, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The problem of the use of animals in biomedical research is also champion by the White Coat Waste project, which was a vehement critic of Dr Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration during the coronavirus pandemic and was also founded on a mission to help put an end to the experiences funded by taxpayers on animals. The group, founded by the republican political strategist Anthony Bellotti, told Fox News Digital that he was “delighted that the Trump administration will give experiences to waste animals that we have exhibited under a microscope”.

Goodman added that their survey shows 85% of Americans, including Republicans, Democrats and Independents, are opposed to the use of taxpayers’ dollars to support experiences on dogs, cats and other animals.

Trunnell has accepted, noting that she thinks that the question has acquired republican support because many Americans – no matter their political band – wonder why dollars of taxes go to these “cruel” and often less reliable research methods.

“There is better science when using non-animal methods, there is less cruelty towards animals, and there is less waste all around,” she told Fox News.

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The logo of the International International Non-Government Animal Rights for the Ethical Animal Treatment (PETA) is observed above. (Yann Schreiber / AFP via Getty Images)

According to Trunnell, the Americans “sold this lie that animal research is essential for medical advances”. For example, she quoted that 95% of new drugs tested on animals finally fail in human trials, either because they are not sure, potentially due to unteashed toxicity in animals, or they are ineffective.

Trunnell added that the majority of animals are used in “curiosity focused”, which, according to her, “never translates into anything significant for human health”.

“On the other hand, we have these new technologies that use human data and human cells,” said Trunnell.

Dr. Marty Makary of Trump, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has met Peta representatives in July after the director of NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, announced that the agency would take measures to reduce its dependence on animal research models and prioritize human models, according to Politico. The actions of Bhattacharya would have earned him a bouquet of Peta flowers, which said after his announcement that the group “Hipped” champagne caps.

PETA members in Michigan demonstrate, holding panels calling for the end of animal tests in science on April 29, 2025. (Photo of Adam J. Dewey / Anadolu via Getty Images)

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS), Andrew Nixon, said that recent measures taken by NIH and FDA prove that Trump administration’s commitment to reduce animal dependence on scientific research is not only theoretical, it happens now.

“Whether through models focused on AI, organoid technology or other innovative tools, we see a change to safer, more ethical and more effective test methods,” said Nixon. “It is a problem that folds ideology because it is a question of modernizing science while aligning it with our values.”