AR-News: (US-wa) Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Has Questions of His Own

[Animalconcerns]

Shooting a cow turned Dave Louthan into a crusader.

On Dec. 9, at Vern's Moses Lake Meats in Moses Lake, Wash., Mr. Louthan
killed the only mad cow found in the United States.

Two weeks later, he says, he was dismissed after four years as Vern's
slaughterer when he talked to the television crews outside and told them
he was sure the cow, ground into hamburger, had already been eaten. The
plant's owners did not return calls seeking comment.
...
Contrary to reports from the federal Department of Agriculture, he asserts
that the cow he killed was not too sick to walk. And it was caught not by
routine surveillance, he says, but by "a fluke": he killed it outdoors
because he feared it would trample other cows lying prostrate in its
trailer, and the plant's testing program called for sampling cows killed
outside only.

"Mad cows aren't downers," he said. "They're up and they're crazy." The
Agriculture Department disputes his account. Dr. Kenneth Petersen, a food
safety official, faxed copies of the Dec. 9 inspector's report saying the
cow was "sternal," or down on its chest.

full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/health/03COW.html

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