The USDA wouldn’t hand over any photos—or even acknowledge whether they exist—because doing so might cause 'embarrassment'.
PETA: ‘PETA has filed an appeal with the administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) contending that the agency is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by withholding photographs from an inspection of Pi Bioscientific, an antibody producer in Seattle with a chronic history of federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations…
Nearly one year after we submitted a FOIA request for the photographs taken by the USDA in March 2016, the agency responded by saying that it wouldn’t hand over any photos—or even acknowledge whether they exist—because doing so might cause “embarrassment”…
Since the missing photographs were presumably taken, Pi Bioscientific has continued to violate the AWA. According to a March 2018 inspection report, among other violations, it was cited for failing to provide at least eight suffering goats and sheep with veterinary care’. SOURCE…
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