Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm

By Linda Faillace

Summarized with permission of Chelsea Green. All rights reserved.

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The USDA then proceeded to place the Faillace farm, the llama, and the rams under a federal quarantine for five years. Also, all of their equipment used on the sheep from the hoof trimmers to the feeders, fences and milking parlor had to be destroyed, and hay from the fields, the USDA told the Faillaces, would be "incinerated in Massachusetts in a special incinerator."

"Dear Mr. Torres:

The Empress has no clothes. The recently disclosed "species barrier" debacle in Europe, described by Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) chairman Peter Smith as a "dreadful mistake," has finally provided the key to decoding the USDA's incoherent set of explanations for its Declaration of Extraordinary Emergency, quarantine, and destruction of my clients' business assets, livelihood, and, in some respects, their credibility. Dr. Detwiler often cited "information that she could not divulge" when asked why the USDA refused to give weight to the numerous negative test results from the Vermont sheep or to explain how Dr. Rubenstein's results, which admittedly were not "atypical TSE," might support the former Secretary's declaration. Clearly, she was trading on inside knowledge of erroneous preliminary data from the Institute of Animal Health study to justify and draw political support for USDA's conduct."

In April 2002, the USDA publicly claimed two of the Faillace sheep tested positive. Larry phoned Davis and asked him to request copies of all the test results. In May, Larry and Linda received a large box full of all the test results:

• Every single animal was negative by histopathology.
• Every single animal was negative by IHC.
• Every single animal was negative by Rubenstein's Western blot test using the same antibody he used to find the supposed "positives" on four of Mr. Freeman's sheep.

They were astonished. All their sheep were negative. But Rubenstein did two additional tests using different antibodies, but the two samples had become degraded due to their long storage in the freezer, and therefore were not suitable for testing. The results were positive but the samples were unacceptable and the results should have been disqualified. Even worse, the samples were from ram lambs that were only eleven and twenty-one months old -- too young to even test. Yet the USDA ignored the truth and accepted the positive conclusion.

 

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