Safe meat requires humane slaughter . In 2007 and 2008, Dr. Dean Wyatt of the USDA tried to shut down Seaboard Farms, a hog slaughtering and processing plant in Oklahoma, for numerous egregious violations, including pigs "shackled on the slaughter line" while "awake and kicking rapidly". [News Source]

Scientists Find New Form Of Prion Disease That Damages Brain Arteries (Medical News Today) WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries... [News Source]