[Yaelle]

Or are sick animals routinely cut up for sale to humans?

Apparently so. I have learned through this new finding that not only are ill animals routinely fed to us, but this cow was a dairy cow and only went to the slaughterhouse and thus into our food supply BECAUSE she was so sick she could no longer stand up.

[tubebender]

This cow went Down only after calving and was well enough to breed at considerable expense to the dairy. If she was sick she would never have been allowed to calve...

[Looking for Diogenes]

... this cow was a dairy cow and only went to the slaughterhouse and thus into our food supply BECAUSE she was so sick she could no longer stand up.

Dairy cow? That means she's been contributing to the food supply for all of her productive life. (I don't know that you can catch Mad Cow through milk but there are diseases that can be spread by it, like tuberculosis. )