USDA Deletes Animal Welfare Database – and People are Outraged

in Animal News on February 09, 2017

After decades of transparency, why did the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suddenly delete its database of animal welfare violations? Born Free USA’s CEO, Adam M. Roberts, is “shocked” by the purge. He says the documents shed light on cruelty in “substandard roadside zoos, shameful animal circuses, puppy breeding factories, and more.”

Link: The Washington Times

Read the next article

H.J. Res 69/S.J. Res 18: Providing for congressional disapproval of the final rule relating to "Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska"