tucker: the u.s. department of agriculture has for some reason stopped publicly providing a large amount of animal welfare information on this web site. lab inspection reports had been removed, the department is saying they raised privacy concerns. it might sounds like a minor bureaucratic shuffle but animal welfare advocates say thousands of dogs and cats used in animal testing could needlessly die as a result of this. kevin chase is vice president of an animal welfare group he joined us in the studio yesterday along with his beagle, called george. watch. thanks for joining us. if i ve got this right, usda has taken off-line among other things, inspection reports that were available to the public and they are doing this in the name of transparency, un-orwellian spirits. why did they do this and what are the implications what s marked why they did it is anybody s guess it s not in the name of transparency. all commercial animal facilities across the country, about 7,000 of the
animal welfare information on its web site. lab inspection reports had been removed, the department is saying they raised privacy concerns. it might sounds like a minor bureaucratic shuffle but animal welfare advocates say thousands of dogs and cats used in animal testing could needlessly die as a result of this.s. kevin chase is vice president of an animal welfare group he joined us in the studio yesterday along with his beagle, called george. watch. thanks for joining us. if i ve got this right, usda has taken off-line among other things, inspection reports thatt were available to the public and they are doing this in the name of transparency, un-orwellian spirits. why did they do this and what are the implications what s marked why they did it is anybody s guess it s not in the name of transparency. all commercial animal facilities across the country, about 7,000 of them, 1200 of which are laboratories all went black on friday. organizations like ours, government watchdog groups