Don't be so sure that what you see on the news is the truth. Big Gunns knows another breeder with a pet business that was raided and they said some of the same things(not Maryland). They took containers out of an incubator with hatching snakes and said. "They had babies hatching out with no water and left to die". They did get their animals back, but it took a while.
You guys are doing exactly what we complain everyone else does. You're believing what you see on the news.
However, like BG stated on the other thread about HSUS. Unfortunately, there is some truth to what happens at importers.