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Posted Sun Mar 15 2009: from Associated Press:
Sick 'downer' cows permanently banned from food supply http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1237133033
 Washington -- The government on Saturday permanently banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the chance that mad cow disease could enter the food supply. The Agriculture Department proposed the ban last year after the biggest beef recall in U.S. history. The recall involved a slaughterhouse in Chino and "downer" cows. The Obama administration finalized the ban Saturday... Those kind of cows pose a higher risk of having mad cow disease. They are also susceptible to infections from bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli, because the animals wallow in feces.
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Wallowing around in feces does sound rather like a downer.

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