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USDA Still Trying to Cover-Up Feeding of Blood, Manure, &

Slaughterhouse Waste to Cattle

 

Web Note: John Stauber is a Policy Board Member of the Organic

Consumers Association

 

Statement by John Stauber, co-author, Mad Cow USA

<www.prwatch.org June 29, 2005

 

At its 6pm EDT Washington, DC, news conference today the United States

Department of Agriculture veterinarian Dr. John Clifford continued to

mislead the press and public by misrepresenting cattle feed

regulations in the United States.

 

Dr. Clifford, the chief veterinarian of the USDA's Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) referred again, as he has in the

past, to the 1997 US feed regulations as a " ruminant to ruminant feed

ban. " THEY ARE NOT.

 

The 1997 regulations which required feed mills to label cattle meat

and bone " Do Not Feed to Ruminants " specifically EXEMPTED CATTLE BLOOD

AND CATTLE FAT, which continue to be fed to calves and cattle legally

and in massive quantities. Much calf milk replacer and calf starter

contains dried cattle blood plasma, cattle red blood cells and cattle

serum as a protein source. Hundreds of millions of pounds a year of

ruminant blood and fat are fed to cattle and other ruminants each year

in the United States.

 

Blood can transmit mad cow disease and the UK government has announced

that two individuals dead of human mad cow disease probably contracted

the fatal prion dementia from human blood products infected by donors

with human mad cow disease, vCJD.

 

In early 2004 the now-head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr.

Lester Crawford, testified before Congress on the need to ban the

feeding of ruminant blood to ruminants in the US. Yet, the practice

continues.

 

In addition, one million tons a year of " poultry litter " is fed back

to cattle, and according to Dr. Crawford up to 30% of it can be

contaminated with meat and bone meal.

 

The so-called US Ofirewall feed ban¹ is a PR myth.

 

The USDA did announce that this mad cow was born and raised in Texas,

and slaughtered in Waco, but not much more was revealed.

 

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