From: Elizabeth Keating [alloic@enteract.com]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:14 PM
To: FDADockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Downed Animals 

To the USDA, Dockets Management Branch
 
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
I urge you in the strongest terms to please grant petition 98P-0151/CP1 to prohibit the slaughter of downed animals.
 
You have the chance to make this a more humane world. I hope you will use it because:
    a.. Downed animals are animals who are too sick even to stand, and so, pose a health threat and should not be allowed to enter the human food chain. 
    b.. It's impossible to moved downed animals humanely. Typically, they are pushed with tractors or dragged with chains. 
    c.. Downed animals comprise a very small percentage of animals slaughtered and prohibiting their marketing will cause no undue economic hardship.
 
Thank you.
 
Elizabeth Keating.
Tel: (630) 876 1240
West Chicago, IL