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This page was last updated on January 06, 2009 .

U.S. Ate 777 Mad Cows?
by: Larry Walker, 3/15/06

Last 8 years:

Estimated total cattle slaughtered About 200 million
(25 million per year)
Estimated total cattle tested for Mad Cow About 773,000
Mad Cows Confirmed

3
Mad Cow Rate

0.00039%
Estimated total mad cows slaughtered (eaten?) 777 in 8 years
(780 minus the three detected)
98 per year
North-South distribution of Mad Cows detected Border to border
(Washington to Texas)
East-West distribution of Mad Cows detected Coast to coast, minus one state
(Alabama to Washington)
Type of Mad Cows detected 1 dairy (Washington)
2 beef (Alabama & Texas)

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Testing rate before 1st Mad Cow detected (about 55 per day) about 0.06% of cattle slaughtered 6-18 years to detect next Mad Cow
"Enhanced" testing rate in effect now (about 1000 per day) about 1.11% of cattle slaughtered 4-12 months to detect next Mad Cow
Proposed "scaled back" testing rate (about 110 per day) about 0.12% of cattle slaughtered 3-9 years to detect next Mad Cow