11/18/17

Bovine TB discovered in chemical toilet

The leak from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota is just the tip of a pollution iceberg striking a red state failure Titanic.

South Dakota is a 77,000 square mile chemical toilet punctuated with disease-ridden concentrated animal feeding operations.
State Veterinarian Dr. Dustin Oedekoven says that an infected cow was initially identified in October by meat inspectors during routine inspection at a Texas slaughterhouse. Official animal identification records linked the cow to a Tripp County beef herd. Herd testing and laboratory confirmation has revealed additional infected animals in the herd.
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The disease vector has yet to be determined.

Earlier this month beef products dispensed in South Dakota vending machines were recalled by the US Department of Agriculture after a routine inspection.

During the February outbreak in South Dakota earth hater former legislator Betty Olson blamed deer for bovine tuberculosis while praising the destruction of the cougars, coyotes and wolves that control deer. She wondered why Game, Fish and Plunder hadn't slaughtered every wild critter in northwestern South Dakota.

Rodeo stock were ultimately established as the carriers.

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