Scientists Desert USDA As Agency Relocates To Kansas City Area
The mandatory move imposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on most of the workers at two vital research agencies has been criticized as a "blatant attack on science."
Two vital research agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are hemorrhaging staff as less than two-thirds of the researchers asked to relocate from Washington to the Kansas City area have agreed to do so.
When U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the planned new location of the research agencies , he said it "will be placing important USDA resources closer to many stakeholders" and "increasing the probability
