Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) named the U.S. Agricultural Research Service—which spent tax dollars buying kittens and dog parts in China’s wet markets—as the latest recipient of her monthly “Squeal Award” to expose wasteful federal spending.
The unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture “spent taxpayer dollars shopping for kittens and puppy parts in China at slaughterhouses and ‘wet markets,’ where living animals are bought, sold, and butchered for human consumption in unsanitary conditions,” Ernst said in a statement released to The Epoch Times on April 22.
