Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her ...

A federal district court in Amarillo delivered a split ruling on a lawsuit filed by the horse industry and two horse owners ...

USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong ordered the mass extermination of healthy poultry in 2024, citing "mutating bird flu," in order to artificially inflate poultry and egg prices in the U.S. Rating: ...

(USDA photo courtesy of Bailing Out Benji) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general says the agency has failed to inspect dog breeders in a timely fashion and failed to ensure that ...

Special Agent in Charge Charmeka Parker of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General (USDA-OIG) stated, "The Office of Inspector General is committed to working with all ...

In a 2010 audit, the USDA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that these industry-run inspections pose an inherent conflict of interest and fail to protect horses from abuse.