A Worker from the Mad Cow Meat Plant Speaks Out

[Say_What]

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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.

http://www.counterpunch.org/louthan01202004.html

[lucky777]

1. After reading Fast Food Nation....

I think I am going vegetarian or maybe just fish. This confirms the decision. I've had meat twice after reading that book and both times I felt kind of sick. I was a vegetarian for 6 months about 12 years ago and I used to get very faint all the time, but I was also heavily medicated and drinking a lot after a messy divorce!

The more I hear about this, the more I think that I should stop eating meat until the cows are just grass fed and roaming, like they are going to do in Germany. Our system here is broken, the meat companies are regulating themselves and it isn't working.

[1monster]

2. Just watch your mercury levels if you go fish... Eat sparingly of

tuna and other large fish at the top of the food chain.

[KT2000]

3. Heroes of our time

are the whistleblowers. Dave has lost his job and probably become a pariah in his community for telling the truth. Thanks to Dave and all the other brave people who think of others before themselves.

[Native]

4. Kick

[MountainLaurel]

5. I am stunned

:wow:

Actually, I'm not. I've read Fast Food Nation, I've heard scientists from the Agriculture Dept. talk about the likelihood of diseases like BSE or hoof-and-mouth not being discovered, and I know how careless companies are product, worker, and consumer safety when there's $$ involved.

Carrot, anyone?