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    Ex-Slaughterhouse Worker blows the whistle

    My name is Dave and I work at Vern's Moses Lake Meats.

    I did until the day the mad cow test results on the Sunny Dene cow came back positive for BSE. That was Wednesday, December 24. On Friday, December 26, the KXLY news crew was at the end of Vern's driveway, locked out by a cable gate.

    The USDA had told the world that the mad cow had been slaughtered here, but it was not in the food chain. A blatant lie.

    It was one of many. I walked out with the news crew at lunch time because I can't stand a government cover-up. They asked me "was the cow in the food chain?" I told them of course it was, it's meat. Where else would it be? They asked me if the cow was a downer. I told them no, it was just an old cow.

    The USDA had us taking brain stem samples from downers and back door cripples only. Since we only had a few walkers on this trailer full of downers, we just killed her along with them. We took a brain sample from her head because the USDA gives up $10 per sample.

    If we would have unloaded her in the pens, we would have never caught the BSE. How many other walkers have BSE? We will never know. The USDA only tested the downers and cripples and only at our plant. We had only been taking brain samples for about a month when we found this one.

    When the USDA said no more downers would be slaughtered, they essentially said no more BSE testing would be done. Vern's and every other slaughterhouse kept right on killing and selling Holstein meat from the same area as the mad cow with no BSE testing whatsoever. This is true and easily verifiable.

    And just so the folks in Moses Lake don't feel left out, the beef head, tongue, liver, kidneys and tail were sold right here in the Columbia Basin. It's way past time for everybody to stop thinking with their bank accounts and start trying to find a way to stop the spread of BSE.

    The minute the USDA found the contaminated cow, they stopped the brain stem collection and testing. Why? Ka-ching! It's the money. Billions.

    If you want to be sure you and your family are eating safe meat, demand testing on every beef slaughter. It's quick and easy. Don't eat another piece of meat until you see a sticker that says tested and cleared for BSE on the package. BSE is 100% fatal --- if you or your kids get it, you die a very painful death. It's a slow, wasting disease. It's terrible.

    Right now, a lot of people are telling you how safe their beef is, but they don't know if it is or is not without testing. That's their checkbook talking. That rendering plant in Canada wasn't feeding 81 cows, it was feeding thousands of cows. Every second that goes by, more untested beef goes on the dinner plate. If you eat mad cow, you are going to get sick and you are going to die.

    Stand up and demand safe meat.

    Full story

    http://www.rense.com/general48/mcoe.htm

    #2
    For another slant, try reading.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/madcowdisease/2001842920_madcow24m.html

    This story says he was laid off, he didn't quit.

    He makes comments about putting a bolt in her head, then scooping out a bit of brain and putting it in a bag which really bothers me. It sounds like he stuck his finger in the hole, and then just scooped some out. Last time I checked, that's not how you collect lab samples. I work at a vet clinic...I know.

    That's pretty crude methodolgy for a result that has devastated the livelihoods of thousands of people. Somebody please tell me they got a better sample than that!

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      #3
      Valuechain. The rense.com main page sure looks a lot like the Enquirer to me. Reports on UFOs, Crop Circles etc.

      Also an article similar to the "milk is puss" attitude that PETA takes.

      I do think Kato's Seattle Times article gives a little more balance and makes Dave sound more like a digruntled ex-employee.

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        #4
        I think the Seattle story was even more disturbing! Whether he was laid off or quit is really irrelevant. The important thing both he and the plant manager said the cow was not a downer, plus another worker. The vet says she was so who is lying? Was the vet even present?
        I find it also rather strange that the plant decides which animals to test...why have the vet/inspector at all?
        I also find it disturbing that the new "downer" rules mean no more downer cows will be tested...isn't this really shoot, shovel, shutup?
        We are into about day 34 of the USDA investigation and they've found 28 out of 81 cows? The CFIA had finished their investigation in 21 days on the Peace River cow and slaughtered 2700 head of cattle! The USDA says no open border until they complete their investigation. Does this mean when they can account for all 81 cows? How much longer will that take? Maybe never?

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          #5
          The Americans have been quick to point out that not all animals from the herd of origin at Calmar Alberta may have entered the U.S. and instead are still in Canada. This includes one animal from the original shipment of 82 animals that remained behind and a later shipment of 17 heifers from the Calmar farm that may or may not have entered the U.S. at a later date. We have heard nothing from the CFIA on this, one way or the other. It would seem that the CFIA could show off our ID traceback capability by beating the Americans to the punch by tracing any animals that may be in Canada before the Americans find theirs.

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            #6
            Fact or fiction the element of truth is still the USDA has a lot to do to test animals and trace back is somewhat of a joke on the US side of the line! They are the bully and have the most clout!

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