Posted by Chris in ND on March 15, 2009 at 10:33:22 from (75.61.104.175):
In Reply to: Re: downer cows posted by Wesley Stephens on March 15, 2009 at 09:48:39:
Wesley you are correct. But there has been an exemption that says if an animal goes down after that animal is inspected and a vet gives the ok it can be slaughtered and enter the food market. This encourages producers to move their sick cows to the killer market before they become downers, often the stress of transport us enough to do it. I have seen down, sick, almost dead cows that were zapped and wipped untill they got out of the tailer and crossed the line at the plant and fell down again. I am not sure how the guys that have downers on their farms are getting them into the packing plants, or maby I do. I think the guys that are defending using downers are missing the big picture. Nowdays everybody has a digital camera or a video cam and they are just waiting for some idiot to abuse a cow and put it on the internet, and it is getting easier all the time to identify disease outbreaks and trace them to the source. All of this causes consumer revolt against the beef industry and encourages even worse legislation. As others have indicated it is to bad we cattle producers and processors couldn't have figured this out ourselfs, but we didn't and now we have a law.
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