Kakistocrats Scrub Animal Welfare Inspections and Reports
courtesy google images A kakistocracy is defined as "government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens". We are experiencing a systematic scrubbing, deleting, and shredding of all sorts of data from climate science, law enforcement training to homeland security documents. Now, USDA animal welfare inspection records and reports have also been removed from the relevant websites . According to the government, this serial hiding of information was necessary to create transparency! The government maintains that all this information can be obtained easily through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Any member of the public or consumer who has requested information this way knows that the process could take forever, the material, if produced, may be heavily redacted, or the information is simply not found. The latter is certainly likely if the records are deleted and destroyed! Anyone interested in animal welfare, in eating food, or in attending an exhibit involvin...