WASHINGTON — Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday ...

U.S. Agriculture Department officials have launched an internal investigation into how the agency handled reports of serious problems at a Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly listeria ...

Not a minute too soon, it turns out. Two days later, the USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit of AWA enforcement, focusing on “problematic” dealers (i.e., breeders and middleman ...

The Horse Protection Act, passed in 1970, was supposed to put an end to soring. However, a 2010 USDA inspector general’s report confirmed that the current system of enforcing the law is broken and ...