Please read The Humane Society Legislative Fund's President Michael Markarian's recent posting on a tragic event that happened in Arizona last week involving a USDA Wildlife Services trapper.
Federal Trapper Arrested for Animal Cruelty
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program—established more than 80 years
ago with the passage of the Animal Damage Control Act of 1931—wastes
millions of taxpayer dollars recklessly killing animals with steel-jawed
leghold traps, toxic poisons, aerial gunning, and other hideous lethal
methods every year. Several former USDA-Wildlife Services employees and
whistleblowers have described the agency’s deeply rooted culture of
disregard for animals, and for these reasons, have long suspected that
some federal trappers may be committing crimes against animals while
performing work-related duties. They’ve never been caught in the act,
until now.
