New York Times: U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit

[phesina]

Your (American) tax dollars at work... sigh....

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/di...stry.html?_r=0

[Lady's Human]

Looks like someone needs their budget trimmed.

[lizbud]

Seems like this department (study) has crossed over the line from valid research into out & out cruelty. It should be stopped immediately.
What gives them the right to play God? There is no need to re-engineer animals to suit human greed. I wonder how many other government
departments are running on "auto pilot" without any outside scrutiny? There was a video connected to this article where they talked to one
of the scientists involved with these experiments.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/multime...pgtype=article

[Lady's Human]

Seems like this department (study) has crossed over the line from valid research into out & out cruelty. It should be stopped immediately.
What gives them the right to play God? There is no need to re-engineer animals to suit human greed. I wonder how many other government
departments are running on "auto pilot" without any outside scrutiny? There was a video connected to this article where they talked to one
of the scientists involved with these experiments.

The answer to that question? TNTC.

Too many to count.

Long ago the Rural Electrification commission was "ended".

How did it end? It was buried in the Department of Agriculture. It still exists.

Rural America has been electrified for a long time, yet the department in charge of making that happen is still around.

In 1992, well after the Army had eliminated teletypes in the field, they were still training teletype technicians.

Government inertia is a wonderful thing.

[phesina]

Some reader response to the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/op...-meat-lab.html

[phesina]

An editorial in today's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/op...onscience.html

Who decides the funding for this horror show travesty? Senate? House? Dept. of Agriculture? Elsewhere? What organization/persons do we contact with our outrage?