Feds cite ‘The Camel Farm’ for more vet-care failures

The latest inspection report of ‘The Camel Farm’ has just become publicly available and it reveals that the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to cite the facility for failing to provide over a dozen animals with adequate veterinary care.

“The Camel Farm’s rap sheet is full of failures to provide animals with essential veterinary care,” says PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Brittany Peet. “The animal suffering on display at this ramshackle roadside zoo is exactly why PETA is suing the USDA for automatically renewing the licenses of cruel law-breaking exhibitors.”

PETA whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment” has filed a law suit that challenges the USDA’s automatic renewal of federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) licenses to facilities such as The Camel Farm.

The AWA prohibits licensing a facility that can’t demonstrate that it’s operating in accordance with the act and in the year before the USDA renewed The Camel Farm’s license, the facility was cited for 33 violations of the AWA according to PETA.

PETA said the recent inspection report includes citations for failing to provide numerous animals with drinking water and failing to provide animals with safe and sanitary enclosures, among other violations.