joins us now. daphne, great to speak with you. this morning, what do we know about these experiments and the nih s involvement? well, what we know is the nih spends about $19.6 billion a year on animal experiments, and as you mentioned, they have contracts worth more than $1.2 billion million dollars, i m sorry come over the last ten years or so buying beagles from this facility located in central virginia, where how they buy puppies in hideous conditions, they have been cited by the u.s. department of agriculture for direct and critical violation for failure to provide basicic necessities of life to these nursing mother dogs and their puppies, keeping animals in temperatures as high as 92 degrees without airir conditioning, plunging needles into the heads of puppies to drain hematomas.