How many want to send lunches with thier kids after this..

I certainly wouldn't want to eat it.

I am not sure that all "downer" animals should be automatically "discarded." Whenever I try to move my Shetland Sheep by leading them.......they lay down. I don't think that means that they are instantly unsafe to eat!!

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I'm quite sure some do -- being a small farmer doesn't automatically make a person decent and kind to animals. But at least if you are buying local, you can check the farm out for yourself. That's the reasoning behind the rule that some states have about selling raw milk off the farm, making the customer pick it up at the farm -- that way, they have the chance to see the place that the milk comes from and be assured of how the farmer keeps things. (I'm sure there's another reason for the rule, also -- making it harder for people to get, so fewer are tempted to do so.)

Kathleen

You don't see the difference between an animal that lays down and one who is physically unable to stand and therefore lays in a toxic waste soup of animal waste and byproducts?

There is also a difference between a cow which can't get up and one which doesn't want to get up.

I don't want to eat either off of a feedlot. Nor do I want to feed it to my family.

And I am far from a PETA representative.

My point exactly!!!!!

From what I can tell, there is no distinction made between a stubborn healthy animal and a sick, debilitated animal.

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