The Agriculture Department has removed animal welfare inspection reports, enforcement records and other information about the treatment of animals from its website, citing privacy and other laws.Removing information is being transparent, according to the Orwellian dictionary of Trump.
Tanya Espinosa, a spokeswoman for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said the information was removed from the site around 11 a.m. Friday. She would not say if the removal was temporary or permanent in the new Trump administration.
The information is used by advocacy groups and other members of the public to look up information on commercial dog and horse breeders, some of whom have had a history of abuse. The reports included lists of animal welfare violations at those facilities and also at animal testing labs, and whether those violations have been corrected.
the USDA says that it is following the law, but they refuse to cite any law or court rulings to support its flushing the information. Which pretty much implies that the legal authority for its actions in deleting the information doesn't exist.
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