Herd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotech Ranch
Goat Holly Steinkraus/University of WyomingIn which a large company tries to solve the problem of animal treatment violations by lying to the USDA (but it doesn't work) Let's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California, and you have a big ranch where you keep thousands of goats. You use the goats to produce all kinds of antibodies that you then extract and sell to biological researchers all over the world. You are, in fact, one of the world's biggest suppliers of these antibodies--a true industry leader. Anyway, everything is going quite well for you, except that the USDA keeps poking their big government nose into your operations, sending inspectors over to your ranch to have a look around, and the inspectors are not liking what they're finding. They keep telling you that you need to provide "adequate veterinary care" for your goats and that the animals' facilities must...