{"id":10428,"date":"2017-02-10T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2017-02-09T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:49:28","slug":"usda-removes-animal-welfare-reports-from-its-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/10\/usda-removes-animal-welfare-reports-from-its-website\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Removes Animal Welfare Reports From Its Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/file3021233943001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"file3021233943001\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/file3021233943001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/file3021233943001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/file3021233943001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to ABC News, 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. The records have been removed &#8220;based on our commitment to being transparent &#8230; ,&#8221; the online message says. Some of the information can be found at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/#F!0RQFCIhR!3QACg2IX2fvYuBi8SzG3Kg\">https:\/\/mega.nz\/#F!0RQFCIhR!3QACg2IX2fvYuBi8SzG3Kg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Humane Society of the United States challenges the United States Department of Agriculture over mass removal of animal welfare records. See:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.humanesociety.org\/wayne\/2017\/02\/hsus-challenges-usda-mass-removal-animal-welfare-records.html?credit=blog_post_020617_id8766\">http:\/\/blog.humanesociety.org\/wayne\/2017\/02\/hsus-challenges-usda-mass-removal-animal-welfare-records.html?credit=blog_post_020617_id8766<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ABC News, 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. The records have been removed &#8220;based on our commitment to being transparent &#8230; ,&#8221; the online message says. Some of the information can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}