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Downer Cattle

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Downer Cattle
Cattle in feed lots that have difficulty standing, a sign suggesting possible bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—which may beget Creutzfeld-Jakob disease


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The rule states that such downer cattle must be humanely euthanized.
Downer cattle those too sick or injured to walk no longer will be allowed to enter U.
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