Usda, Using Controversial Tests, Sounds Mad Cow Alarm in Vermont

After years of dismissing suggestions that Mad Cow disease might threaten US livestock, the US Department ofAgriculture is using possibly flawed tests to justify killing two flocks of Vermont sheep. The government claims thesheep may harbor the disease that has killed more than 80 Britons, devastated that country’s beef industry, andspread to other European countries.


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