Diseases that get a Cow Culled

[kerley]

So, I guess you must test all your animals for every disease known to science before you sell them or eat them? Because, how would you know if they had a disease if you didn't test for it? Then you shoot and dispose of them in a sanitary manner if they have any kind of disease? Do you think beef processing plants do this or should be required to do this?

ga.prime, You can guess any be nice thing you choose, If I had a sick cow It would see the Vet. If i knowingly owned a diseased cow I would put it down rather than inter it into a food chain that even you might eat. I have no control over any beef processing plant. You are trying to start an arguement with me and you just failed. I suggest you continue guessing.

I think you’re missing his point all together. No all diseases are something you can detect but simply looking at an animal. Many diseases go unknown for years. Is it safe to assume you don’t have every animal you sell tested for all known diseases? If not, there’s a decent chance you’ve sold diseased animals at some point or another. Same with any animals you have butchered. That doesn’t mean they’re unsafe to eat.
I don’t see anyone trying to start an argument, though I will say you were the one to get defensive and questioning peoples’ morals.

Thank you very much for your valued opinion.

[ABrauny]

I don't think I saw a single helpful answer, but I could be wrong. I get that other things get animals culled(such as disposition, structural integrity, fertility, production, fleshing ability). My question is this if an animal gets say IBR but gets over it and tests negative for being PI should the animal get culled(by gun, slaughter for food or what have you)? The same goes for any other animal disease.

[Banjo]

I don't think I saw a single helpful answer, but I could be wrong. I get that other things get animals culled(such as disposition, structural integrity, fertility, production, fleshing ability). My question is this if an animal gets say IBR but gets over it and tests negative for being PI should the animal get culled(by gun, slaughter for food or what have you)? The same goes for any other animal disease.

Now that you have cleared things up, probably the only one that could safely answer your question is a Vet. on a case by case basis.
As far as the other culling criteria goes.....I thought I would broaden the discussion a little bit since most of us don't cull hard enough.

[ABrauny]

I suppose I wasn't being entirely clear at first. Stumbling over words, and strangling my syntax

[Nite Hawk]

Any animal that has an infectious chronic disease, should probably be culled, as they act as an infection reservoir for the rest of the healthy animals in the herd.
Whether they go for dog food, or end up being hauled into the bush for "coyote bait" or if it is really a nasty disease, being quicklimed and buried, or burned. Personally I am not for knowingly eating an infectious sick cow, or feeding it to someone else either, as if not cooked properly, the disease might transfer over to humans.
Any disease that is infectious and incurable needs to go.
Nite Hawk