After 24 lawmakers sent a letter to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anthony Fauci last week demanding answers about alleged “cruel” puppy testing carried out by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the California-based Beagle Freedom Project (BFP) told The Epoch Times these kinds of tests are “the industry’s dirty little secret.” “They do a very good job hiding all of us from the public and it’s devastating when people do find out that dogs and cats just like the ones we share our homes with are being tortured like this,” BFP President and Founder Shannon Keith said. Documents (pdf) obtained by a watchdog group against government animal testing, White Coat Waste Project, found that between October 2018 and February 2019 the NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer funds on animal experimentation at California-based research center SRI International. The NIAID is led by Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who …