(Credit: Shutterstock) Trump’s Department of Agriculture, which took down online inspection reports about puppy mills last year and blocked a rule to reduce abuse of horses, is now looking to farm out animal inspections to organizations that could financially profit from writing mostly good reviews. The agency, headed by former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, who once worked as a veterinarian, wants more inspections by third parties, not trained inspectors, at the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “The USDA is likely to team up with industry groups or associations that have a financial interest in the regulated business themselves,” said Kathleen Summers who works with the puppy mill campaign at the Humane Society of the United States. The agency contends that having other organizations do more inspections will free up USDA inspectors to spend more time at problem zoos, breeders and labs.
Latest Administration Bright Idea: Let Private Companies Oversee Animal Treatment
Sarah Okeson, DCReport, Salon: Politics
Sun, 03/18/2018 - 2:58am
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