USDA sued for allegedly blocking info on experiments that killed 3,000 cats

The White Coat Waste Project, a right-leaning advocacy group in Virginia, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia earlier this week against the USDA in an attempt to gain information about government experiments that involved euthanizing thousands of cats. The lawsuit alleges that the USDA stopped the group's attempt to obtain information about its research via a Freedom of Information Act request. The group had asked for veterinary records for all “cats and kittens” experimented on at a federal facility in Beltsville, Md. The group released documents earlier this year in which the USDA said about 100 cats are killed annually at the Maryland facility. The cats are reportedly killed after being infected with a parasite that can cause toxoplasmosis.