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In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful, entrepreneurial business. But just like that, their dream turned into a nightmare. The U.S. Department of Agriculture told them that the sheep they imported from Europe (with the USDAis seal of approval) carried a disease similar to the dreaded BSE or imad cow disease.i After months of surveillance n which included USDA agents spying from nearby mountaintops and comically hiding behind bushes n armed federal agents seized their flock. The animals were destroyed, the Faillaceis lives turned upside down, all so that the USDA could show the U.S. meat industries that they were protecting America from mad cow disease n and by extension, easing fears among an increasingly wary population of meat-eaters. Mad Sheep is the account of one familyis struggle against a bullying and corrupt government agency that long ago abandoned the family farmer to serve the needs of corporate agriculture and the industrialization of our food supply. Similar to the national best-selling book, A Civil Action, readers will cheer on this courageous family in its fight for justice in the face of politics as usual and the implacable bureaucracy of the farm industry in Washington, DC.

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Mad Sheep will enrage you. The real crazies in this true and tragic tale are the bureaucratic bullies who tortured and tormented heroic Vermont farmers while allowing a deadly dementia--mad cow disease--to emerge in America. The sheep are dead, lives destroyed, mad cow disease here, and the worst is that these bunglers are still running the show. --John Stauber, co-author, Mad Cow U.S.A.

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