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Healthier Meat & Dairy

Mad cow disease/BSE

Research shows that Mad Cow Disease, properly known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is caused by including infected animal protein in livestock feed.

U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration rules still continue to allow rendered meat, blood and bone meal from slaughterhouses in livestock feed.

Common sense solutions to mad cow are provided for by the USDA Organic Standards, and by PCC's meat and poultry product quality standards.

See also:

• Why eat organic meat?
• PCC's commitment to safer beef