6 head from case 2

[ALICIA]

You can make as many rule are you want but the bottom line is you just got to trust that the rules were followed, because if they were not their is not a whole lot we can do about it.
Got a joke the other day that said more people die because of a doctors mistake then are killed by guns. Some joke.

[intr3est]

Alicia, the fact is that we as cattle producers have to keep track of every calf, but do the feed companies have to keep track of every bag of feed for easy traceback? It would not be that far of a stretch to make licenced feed companies to sample every batch of feed for testing, they already do it for protein content etc. Send it to an independent lab for anlysis and have a recall if a human "mistake" has occurred!

[intr3est]

Just wanted to add, in this country we fine people for smoking where they shouldn't, serving people underage, speeding etc. We should be able to track anything like this with the same expediancy and have them charged for "human" mistakes

[ALICIA]

intr3ist- Here is a human mistake and I know the man that made the mistake but want do you want me to do about it.
About 2 or 3 weeks just after BSE was in the new I went to the feed store and got my 6 bags of Cattle Ration Pellets, just like I've been doing for the last 4 or 6 years. Now I trust the guy that gave me the feed and I have other things on my mind so I don't check ever tag on the bag. I just open the bag and give each cow 2 scoops of grain once a day, well this day have way through I noticed that the pellets seemed rather smaller in length then normally, but I just went on and feed. Well about 2 weeks later I found a tag laying on the floor beside my bag of garbage and I picked the tag up and happen to read CHICKEN FEED. Now just whos fault is it the guy that gave me 5 bags of cattle pellets and 1 bag of chicken feed or me for not reading every lable.
I guess if I loose my cows over one bag of chicken feed, its my fault because I didn't read the lable, I trusted the guy in the feed store. But I guess he doesn't care, they are not his cows, he just wanted to make the sale.

[VETHUSBAND]

I'm not saying that every producer has to check the bag, It should be done already, by the time you get it home. they don't package these things by the minute, but by the day, let's have some accountability.