Comment from jean public

i do not believe a vet license is good enough to investigate these diseases. not well enough trained. need more than a vet license to be involved in this animal disease, which also kills people. need human health people on this as well. usda aphis lets cows be fed chicken feces which is a terrible disease forming food for cows, who are ruminants. doing this shows insanity at this agency. look at the record of this aency on bse;;-mad cheep book in the library: USDA Treachery Proved! Even Good Staffers Taught Harmless Growers Cruel Lessons By Grace Hatton Back at the time of the seizure of the Vermont sheep in 2001, USDA said it would submit samples for mouse bioassay which would take several years to yield results. USDA indicated the test would show definitively whether the sheep had scrapie, atypical scrapie or BSE. After years went by with no results released on the final diagnosis I filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) in 2006 with APHIS asking for the results. Still more years went by and I was asked whether I still wanted the results. I said I did and still more time passed. Last spring I was told there was nothing responsive to my request at that time, but that there would be later in the year. So I re-filed my FOIA request and finally in 2010 I received four pages of test results from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge in the United Kingdom saying that the two samples submitted to them by APHIS from the Vermont sheep were negative for scrapie, atypical scrapie and BSE. Under the USDA's BSE emergency response plan the United Kingdom laboratory at Weybridge is the ultimate arbiter of BSE testing: "Under USDA's response plan, implemented in 1996, APHIS personnel conduct routine surveillance on cattle coming to slaughter as well as take samples from animals that display signs of central nervous system disorder at slaughte. see next response letter