Time to Hurt Animals
Dear Editor:
As he was signing edicts hurting one group after another over the past
two weeks, it was only a matter of time before Donald Trump got around
to hurting animals - already the most oppressed sentient beings on
earth.
The animals' turn came yesterday - by taking down the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) site that reports on government
regulation of roughly 9,000 animal handling facilities. These are
laboratories, dog breeders, fur farms, circuses, zoos, and aquariums.
The site is used every day by animal protection activists to monitor
government enforcement of the 1966 Animal Welfare Act, the only
effective federal law protecting animals.
Taking down the APHIS inspection site is a huge setback for animal
protection. It will almost certainly lead to reduced government
inspection of animal facilities and more animal suffering - a virtual
repeal of the Animal Welfare Act.
Ironically, this oppressive act was launched by the same dark-of-night
process as that of pulling more than 100,000 visas from thoroughly
vetted Muslim immigrants one week earlier - no notice, no hearings, no
due process, no public announcement.
The oppressive mindset doesn't really care who the victims are.
Hopefully, the courts will.
Sincerely,
Otis Streicher
471 Chester St.
Ogden, UT 84403
213-596-0228
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References for Editor
http://www.nature.com/news/us-government-takes-animal-welfare-data-offli
ne-1.21428
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article1
30602434.html
