13 Mar 2008
Meat Packer Admits Slaughter of Sick Cows

Could somebody please explain to me how implementing NAIS would've prevented or even mitigated this situation? I'd be willing to bet that, given access to existing purchase records right now, we could tell with a great degree of certainty exactly where the cow in the video came from. NAIS might make this identification easier. But how does that knowledge keep the downer cow from entering the food supply?

The short answer is: it doesn't. That's the long answer, too.

The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest-ever meat recall grudgingly admitted that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply.

(link) [New York Times]

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