You ask important questions ... Does product quality assurance and the protocol for animal treatment truly lie with the pen manager? I mean, does it? And why, if the repercussions reverberate nationally, doesn't a national institution (e.g. US Justice Dept., Homeland Security, as you mentioned) give a hoot?

How off the mark would I be in assuming that the answer to those questions lies in some company's profits?

Dejected, I tell you...