CFS Calls on Government Agencies, Food Processing Companies, the Agriculture Industry, and Medical and Veterinary Professionals to Protect Consumers, the Economy, and Animals from Mad Cow Disease
February 02, 2004
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The above-mentioned groups call on public officials, food processing companies, the agriculture industry, and medical and veterinary professionals to adopt the following measures to ensure that mad cow-like diseases pose no threat to our health, to our economy and to the welfare of animals:
- Test all cattle over 20 months of age for mad cow disease
- Stop the feeding of blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure, road kill and other mammalian byproducts to food animals
- Keep all "downer" animals, not just cattle, out of the food and feed supply and require their humane euthanasia
- Require identification and tracking of animals
- Implement country of origin labeling of meat
- Give the USDA the authority to recall contaminated meat and disclose the names of companies that handle recalled items
- Require reporting and investigation of all cases of brain-wasting disease in people to see if they are caused by mad cow, mad deer or other similar animal diseases
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