www.davelouthan.org Personal Background Info: Dave Louthan is a former employee of a meat processing plant in Washington State. Dave says he knows many of the dark and dirty secrets of the meat industry. After slaughtering what turned out to be the first BSE-infected cow found in the U.S. in January 2004, Louthan has begun to speak out about the inadequacies of the system, and how it works to hoodwink consumers into a false sense of security about their food supply. He claims that based on what he has seen, he believes that every person who eats beef in the U.S. is ultimately at risk for contracting the deadly, human form of "mad cow" disease Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD). As one of the only persons with intimate knowledge of the slaughter process, who has been willing to come forward, his testimony is both compelling and truly frightening.