In a video posted on YouTube, Sen. Jerry Moran from Kansas soundly criticizes the USDA Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) for its plans to involve the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in planning an animal welfare scientific forum to the exclusion of agricultural organizations. In his Nov. 2 speech on the Senate floor, Moran said: “The ironic thing about this forum is that there’s little science involved. It is nothing more than, in my view, the Department of Agriculture spending taxpayer dollars on a forum to provide the Human Society of the United States a public forum to espouse its anti-agricultural views. “…it becomes clear that the Department of Agriculture is catering to an outside organization instead of relying upon the advice of animal scientists at our land grant universities or even within the Department of Agriculture,” Moran continued. “If the Department of Agriculture was interested in science, why would it allow an animal rights organization to steer its agenda?”...more
Read a transcript of the speech here and a video of his floor speech is below:
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