What are the dangers posed by letting downer cattle enter the food supply?

Michael Pollan: They are prohibited out of concern for mad cow disease. Cows with BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy, as it is officially known, lose the ability to walk, so as one of the several precautions we took, we decided no downers should enter the food supply, and we also changed the feed of the animals and decided no meat could be taken from near the spinal column or brain material. But the other thing to be alert to is that downer cows can be sick for other reasons.

Whatever the risk, do you want to be eating meat from sick cows? What is the economic problem? The industry is eager to turn all cows into hamburger, basically, and they don't want to exclude anything.

I've never witnessed what we saw in that video, but we are dealing with production lines that are incredibly fast. In a modern American slaughter plant, as I understand this one was, they slaughter 400 head an hour. What is that, seven per minute?

Anything that slows down production is a problem. If an ... more.

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