We have received the following press release.
For Immediate Release
Monday, March 27, 2017
Contact: Michael Budkie 513-703-9865
LOS ANGELES, CA – A nonprofit national research watchdog group – accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Trump Administration of intentionally withholding from the public documents damaging to animal abusing industries – announced today it is stepping in to release many of those censored documents in the place of the malfeasant government agency.
Ohio-based SAEN, which has monitored the nation’s research facilities for decades, said its goal is to counter the USDA information blackout by launching a new section on its website entitled: USDA Enforcement Actions, which contains all regulatory actions taken against the biomedical research industry during 2015 & 2016.
The page is at: http://www.saenonline.org/usda-enforcement-actions-20170319.html and contains multiple files of enforcement actions very recently obtained by SAEN via Freedom of Information Act. These enforcement actions include research laboratories, zoos, animal breeders, among others.
For instance, recent SAEN reports reveal the Los Angeles Zoo was fined $22,850 for violations connected to the deaths or disappearances of two cotton-top tamarin monkeys, a koala and a pregnant takin (gnu) and her unborn baby. A Racine (WI) zoo was fined $1,000 for an incident in which a camel bit a three year old child. A NY research dog & cat breeder was fined $5250 for improperly transporting dogs, negligently killing two of the canines. These specific enforcement action documents are posted at: http://www.saenonline.org/usda-enforcement-actions2-20170327.html
SAEN’s information also documents that University of Missouri, Columbia, received an Official USDA Warning for the negligent deaths of two animals. The University of Hawaii received an Official Warning for denying veterinary help to an animal, and then using a gun to ends its life. A Missouri dog breeder received an Official Warning for abusing dogs.
Those were just recent examples. SAEN noted 2016 was a banner year for enforcement actions against the biomedical research industry – the USDA levied eight federal fines, totaling more than $3.7 million. The agency also issued 16 Official Warnings. That made 2016 the worst year the industry has ever had in terms of not complying with federal laws.
“It is no coincidence that documents that are potentially most-damaging to the animal abusing industries have still not been returned to public access by the USDA,” said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., SAEN co-founder. “Apparently it is up to advocacy groups to keep both industry and the federal government honest.”
“SAEN intends to make sure that the public gets the truth. All of it,” added Budkie.
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Never forget that the US is a judeo.christian nation, where the underlying, mainstream view of animals is derived from biblical ideology… an arrogant, cruel ideology that is founded on the flawed notion of human supremacy…. Human supremacy indeed!
These words set into motion all violence to animals, with righteous fervor:
Genesis 9:1-3 “The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”
Many of the abuses listed above have been banned, declared against the law in India, where a kinder ethic prevails, that of AHIMSA:
“Don’t kill any living beings. Don’t try to rule them.” Mahavira (Jain Acaranga, 4/23)
“Ahimsa is derived from the Sanskrit verb root hims, which means “desirous to kill,” and the prefix a- is negation. So a-himsa means literally “lacking any desire to kill,”
With words that heal and temper the rush to killing, much has been accomplished in India. A major ruling declared vivisection banned on the College and University level. Such legislation is not possible when religion encourages slaughter, domination and control of animal lives for human benefit.
As for human supremacy consider that man is capable of discerning that the killing of an animal causes fear and pain, no matter how deftly the knife is applied. Knowing full well the suffering that is caused by killing an animal, yet continuing to justify slaughter is the root of all other violence to animals. Rather than elevating man above the animals the justification of slaughter lessens man, for the other animals do not understand the suffering they cause and man tries to justify it in the guise of human supremacy.
One slaughter is legalized, all other violence follows as a natural consequence.
With AHIMSA the reality of slaughter is not denied:
“Those who eat the meat of other living beings in order to satisfy their own flesh, they are definitely murderers themselves, since without a consumer there can be no killer.” Jain monk, Hemchandra
With these words compassion, protective legislation,rescue and protection for animals is the natural consequence.