Linda Faillace, author of Mad Sheep

This video is an interview with Linda Faillace, author of Mad Sheep.

In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful, entrepreneurial business.

But just like that, their dream turned into a nightmare. The U.S. Department of Agriculture told them that the sheep they imported from Europe (with the USDA's seal of approval) carried a disease similar to the dreaded BSE or "mad cow disease." After months of surveillance—which included USDA agents spying from nearby mountaintops and comically hiding behind bushes—armed federal agents seized their flock. The animals were destroyed, the Faillace's lives turned upside down, all so that the USDA could show the U.S. meat industries that they were protecting America from mad cow disease—and by extension, easing fears among an increasingly wary population of meat-eaters.

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[TSEPRION]

Saturday, February 27, 2010

FINAL REPORT OF THE TESTING OF THE BELGIAN (VERMONT) SHEEP February 27, 2010

foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blo­gspot.com/2010/02/final-report­-of-testing-of-belgian.html

Monday, January 2, 2012

EFSA Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the EFSA Scientific Network on BSE-TSE Brussels, 29-30 November 2011

transmissiblespongiformencepha­lopathy.blogspot.com/2012/01/e­fsa-minutes-of-6th-meeting-of-­efsa.html

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[VTFarmArt]

To contact the APHIS division of the USDA responsible for this mess and express your thoughts on the matter, write, call, or email:

USDA/APHIS/AC

4700 River Road, Unit 84

Riverdale, MD 20737-1234

ace@aphis.usda.gov

(301) 734-4978

[pookiecatblue]

I would invite you to watch the video and perhaps do a little research. The sheep were tested right from the start. The tests came out negative.

[scaryalbino1987]

Yeah... i would invite you all to think of the other sheep farmers who got so sick of not being able to sell their Vermont cheese because everyone was afraid of getting mad cow. Because these people would not do the Mad Sheep testing many REAL Vermont sheep farmers VOLUNTARILY sold their herds to the USDA and started from scratch, or simply moved on to dairy farming. Please think before you simply and blindly endorse a sob story.

[AlienRelics]

The part with the music and little girl carrying a lamb is touching, but "for a disease that doesn't exist"?

BSE does exist. I can't say if these sheep had BSE, but it does exist.

There are admittedly few cases of it transfering to humans, but if it can go to humans, it can go to sheep.

It is terrible that this happened to them, and I do think the USDA and the governments are handling this poorly.

[jwoodswce]

I just finished reading her book _Mad Cow_ and recommend it.

The story begins with the family's heroic productivity. Unfortunately, this virtue is attacked by the USDA using junk science.  Thankfully, the family is vindicated by the facts, if not by the government, and they are able to renew their values despite government oppression.

There are many parallels to current news such as the man made global warming scam and government interference in economy causing collapse.

[concerned00citizen]

Why don't the videos tell what Sanders, Jeffords and Leahy did to protect these farmers?

[concerned00citizen]

I think RP may be America's last great hope - unfortunately it is impossible to get signs etc. There seems to be no campaign headquarters in VT or NH. I've changed my mind on him. Hope he runs as Ind. not Bernie Sanders communist socialist but TRUE Ind.

[concerned00citizen]

Absolutely! Gov against the little people. Gov run by corp. to the detriment of Americans. Illegal aliens, health care is about getting it off the back of the richest corporations, education (job training), internships (cheap labor), SSI being stolen from those that paid a lifetime for it, Medicare and Medcaide underfunded, bonds for private/public partnerships (taxes for the poor while the rich buy tax free bonds) on and on and on.........

[texaslina]

I think it goes much deeper than oil. Right now we are the "consumers" and China, where all of these politians have their money invested, are the producers. Why do you think the fed keeps lowering the interest rates? Do you know that China now has an oil company that is larger than Exxon Mobil. Basically, I think our government is leaning towards more communist thinkings, where the elites keep all the money and power, while america's rich and middle class will get it taxed away.