He calls animal testing ‘taxpayer-funded torture.’ He got the FDA to listen

In 1995, when Anthony Bellotti was 17 and slogging through a summer internship in an animal research lab, he was struck not by how the work could help the millions of people suffering from heart disease, but by the plight of the pigs being hoisted by their hind legs onto tables.

“They were always screaming,” he said. “I thought, ‘Something’s wrong with this picture.’”