Despite Protest, College Plans To Slaughter, Serve Farm's Beloved Oxen

[Sunlei]

19. yes meant anti, to treat the joint injury

America is behind the curve in food safety but even the FDA has banned the use of some of the common drugs in food animals. read the labels on many livestock drugs and you will see the words, not for use in animals intended for human consumption. More progressive countries like the UK won't even accept many forms of American meat because of the medications they ban from food animals.

One of the most common (If Vets did actually treat the animals injury like they said) is Phenylbutazone.
The FDA says of this drug- 'Phenylbutazone is known to induce blood dyscrasias, including aplastic anemia, leukopenia, agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia and deaths. Hypersensitivity reactions of the serum-sickness type have also been reported. In addition, phenylbutazone is a carcinogen, as determined by the National Toxicology Program.' http://www.fda.gov/default.htm Animals treated with this drug and many others are banned for life as food, in the UK.

None the less this is a work animal and was raised for and used to train many students. Similar to the farms sheep dogs and barn cats we owe them a respectfully humane end of life. They were not raised for food or AS food animals,could be contaminated with medications dangerous for humans to consume.

This is a very wealthy school who could afford to retire their WORK animals to pasture, place in a sanctuary, or (if suffering) euthanize them in thir life-long comfortable place and compost the remains.