Why Is The Government Killing Millions Of Animals?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a program to kill wild animals. U.S. taxpayers fund the slaughter, but we aren’t allowed to know just what they’re paying for. 

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It was reported last year that the U.S. government killed 4 million wild animals! Though there’s a list of animals killed, there’s little data showing the cause for each killing, the methods used and the reasons behind mistakes that lead to massive kills of animals that aren’t targeted.

So why did they do this? Trace explains their reasoning, and why these killings are so controversial.