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USDA Removes Public Access to Animal Welfare Reports

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-usual-monkey-business dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/trump-administration-blacks-out-animal-welfare-information

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/updated-usda-responds-outcry-over-removal-animal-welfare-documents-lawsuit-threats

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a statement this morning regarding the removal of animal welfare reports from its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website: "The review of APHIS' website has been ongoing, and the agency is striving to balance the need for transparency with rules protecting individual privacy. In 2016, well before the change of Administration, APHIS decided to make adjustments to the posting of regulatory records. In addition, APHIS is currently involved in litigation concerning, among other issues, information posted on the agency's website. While the agency is vigorously defending against this litigation, in an abundance of caution, the agency is taking additional measures to protect individual privacy. These decisions are not final. Adjustments may be made regarding information appropriate for release and posting."

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:01PM (#464614)

    The gays and transsexuals will be thrown from buildings because we failed to stop a muslim demographic replacement.

    Anyone outside the established religion (which will be islam because we didn't KILL KILL KILL to stop it) will become a slave (literally!) or killed. Mostly, females become sex slaves and males get killed.

    The drunks will be killed because alcohol is prohibited by islam, which we fail to stop because we're too liberal.

    We're like the North American aborigines (amerindians) when the Europeans showed up. Some of us welcome the invaders because the invaders disrupt the other locals that have been a source of petty disagreements. It was tribe against tribe, using Europeans as a weapon. Now it's liberals against conservatives, using muslims as a weapon. Things turned out kind of badly for all tribes, just as things will turn out badly for all of us, liberals included.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:55PM (#464718)

    (Score:-1, Retarded)