dairyisntscary:

friendly reminder that down cows can’t go to slaughter. it’s literally illegal because of mad cow disease. Down cows that don’t show improvement are euthanized and either buried/composted or incinerated. meat from a euthanized animal cannot be sold, regardless of method used, because a USDA inspector has to overlook all slaughter for meat that gets sold legally. The “cows are milked until they’re downers and then they go to slaughter” rhetoric just isn’t true.