Sick 'downer' cows permanently banned from food supply

Yes!

Why no history on this? That and animal had to be able to walk to its slaughter was the law of the land until George W Bush decided that perfectly good meat could be used as long as an "expert" employed by a meat company said the cow fell for some other reason than mad cow disease.

The media needs to keep a historical thread here. Some of us still hold out hope that members of the Bush Administration will one day have to answer for some small part of the damage they've caused.

Saturday, March 14, 2009 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces Final Rule for Handling of Non-Ambulatory Cattle
http://www.usda.gov/2009/03/0060.xml
THANK GOD ! after years and years of exposing, especially our children with dead stock downer cows, from the USDA et al dead stock downer cow school lunch program, finally, some common sense comes forth....TSS
DEADSTOCK DOWNER CATTLE THE MOST HIGH RISK FOR MAD COW DISEASE, and the USDA et al have been force feeding your children this for years. who will monitor our children in the years, decades to come for CJD aka mad cow disease ???
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE
IS THERE A SCRAPIE-LIKE DISEASE IN CATTLE ?
In April of 1985, a mink rancher in Wisconsin reported a debilitating neurologic disease in his herd which we diagnosed as TME by histopathologic findings confirmed by experimental transmission to mink and squirrel monkeys. The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy cattle and a few horses. She had never been fed.
We believe that these findings may indicate the presence of a previously unrecognized scrapie-like disease in cattle and wish to alert dairy practitioners to this possibility.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL WESTERN CONFERENCE FOR FOOD ANIMAL VETERINARY MEDICINE, University of Arizona, March 17-19, 1986
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09a/ta...
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab...
IS THERE A SCRAPIE-LIKE DISEASE IN CATTLE ?
YOU BET THERE IS, AND HAS BEEN, AND WE BEEN FEEDING THE MOST HIGH RISK I.E. DEAD STOCK DOWNER COWS TO OUR CHILDREN FOR DECADES, who will follow these children for human TSE from mad cow disease here in the USA in the years, decades to come, and how many will they expose from the 'pass it forward' friendly fire modes ???
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2008/12/eval...
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/
http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/20...
kind regards,
terry