In recent months, The Cavalry Group has been responding on behalf of our members, to letters from USDA/APHIS indicating that the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and other animal rights extremist organizations had requested private, confidential information about their business via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to USDA.
In response to the onslaught of FOIA requests affecting our members, I wrote an article challenging USDA's policy of releasing private, confidential information to these radical animal rights groups, highlighting that USDA knows full well that this unjudicated information would be taken out of context and used to hurt the businesses of the affected licensees.
Read article here
Listen to Mindy Patterson's interview with Trent Loos about this issue here
Statement:
The Cavalry Group and our Members all over the United States applaud the change in USDA policy that was
implemented on Friday, February 3, 2017 regarding private,
confidential and un-adjudicated USDA licensee information.
For the last eight years, USDA has been
releasing confidential and un-adjudicated information to animal rights
extremists and activist organizations, such as the Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) knowing that
the information would be used wrongfully against USDA licensees with the intent
to run them out of business.
Empirical data exists evidencing that
animal rights groups have used licensees’ information to make fraudulent claims
and anonymous tips to authorities, and terrorize law abiding American families
whose livelihood happens to involve exhibiting, breeding, transporting, or
selling animals.
Evidence also exists that during the
past eight years, USDA has been infiltrated by animal rights extremists who,
with some success, attempted to change the culture within USDA-APHIS from one
that is supportive of animal enterprise to one that aggressively bullies and harasses
law abiding animal businesses with the ultimate goal of running them out of
business.
Mindy Patterson
President
The Cavalry Group
Tucker Carlson of FOX had what appeared to be a PETA stooge on last night under the guise of saving puppied like the cute one he was carrying. After describing their contribution to saving discarded lab animal the fellow launched into an attack on the the USDA for removing the data base and said the little cute puppies will die without the database abd that all animal rescue depends on the data base. As if the USDA only reports things so private entities can do all the real work of protecting animal welfare. Tucker was clearly caught by surprize and could not respond intelligently except to agree or look cruel. I don't think Tucker Carlson vetted his guest nor understood the nature of his agenda and he seemed to be excusing the deletion of records as an obvious mistake, and he let this guest make an appeal to citizens to contact Trump and their elected representitives. I was very concerned that they got the air time and their one sided message aided by the unprepared host, Tucker.
ReplyDeleteWhat can be done to provide balance?
Because the animal rights groups are on a media tour right now framing the issue in the mass media and its basically that "millions of animals will suffer and die without the data!"
We should contact Tucker also and once he realizes that he was used this way perhaps he'll provide a moment for those on the other side of the issue. We run a sanctuary that has suffered under the Peta use of this data and are named in law suits Peta launched using USDA inspectors as their stooges.
Our USDA inspection information was being made available to PETA before it was even published!
The inspectors were monitored and critiqued for their job "performance" publically by PETA using the database under great pressure to prove themselves to PETA and others or face bad publicity. Inspectors that don't produce enough negative reports are themselves under public attack as "Rubber Stampers"!
How would you like your job performance criticism posted daily by a special interest whose agenda will only be satisfied by closing facilities.
Tucker Carlson of FOX had what appeared to be a PETA stooge on last night under the guise of saving puppied like the cute one he was carrying. After describing their contribution to saving discarded lab animal the fellow launched into an attack on the the USDA for removing the data base and said the little cute puppies will die without the database abd that all animal rescue depends on the data base. As if the USDA only reports things so private entities can do all the real work of protecting animal welfare. Tucker was clearly caught by surprize and could not respond intelligently except to agree or look cruel. I don't think Tucker Carlson vetted his guest nor understood the nature of his agenda and he seemed to be excusing the deletion of records as an obvious mistake, and he let this guest make an appeal to citizens to contact Trump and their elected representitives. I was very concerned that they got the air time and their one sided message aided by the unprepared host, Tucker.
ReplyDeleteWhat can be done to provide balance?
Because the animal rights groups are on a media tour right now framing the issue in the mass media and its basically that "millions of animals will suffer and die without the data!"
We should contact Tucker also and once he realizes that he was used this way perhaps he'll provide a moment for those on the other side of the issue. We run a sanctuary that has suffered under the Peta use of this data and are named in law suits Peta launched using USDA inspectors as their stooges.
Our USDA inspection information was being made available to PETA before it was even published!
The inspectors were monitored and critiqued for their job "performance" publically by PETA using the database under great pressure to prove themselves to PETA and others or face bad publicity. Inspectors that don't produce enough negative reports are themselves under public attack as "Rubber Stampers"!
How would you like your job performance criticism posted daily by a special interest whose agenda will only be satisfied by closing facilities.