Zoonotic Diseases

The Humane Society of the United States sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in federal court, claiming its refusal to regulate the crowded, cramped conditions in <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Zoonotic-diseases.pdf">industrialized poultry factory-farms</a> </strong>increases the risk of zoonotic diseases spreading to humans.</p>

LOS ANGELES — The Humane Society of the United States sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in federal court, claiming its refusal to regulate the crowded, cramped conditions in industrialized poultry factory-farms increases the risk of zoonotic diseases spreading to humans.

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