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193 fifty times more likely to have the disease
"Bill Seeks Permanent Ban on Downer Slaughter at Meat Plants," Food Safety News.
194 should be diverted from the food supply
Ibid.
195 manifested those symptoms just before they were slaughtered
Ibid.
196 in order to protect a tiny portion of the industry's profits
Emad Mekay, "Beef Lobby Blocks Action on Mad Cow, Activists Say," Inter Press Service, January 8, 2004, http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0401a/copyright/madcow4.html; Charles Abbott, "a.n.a.lysis: U.S. Mad Cow Find: Lucky Break or Triumph of Science?," Reuters, April 25, 2012.
197 a regulation that embodies the intent of the law rejected
"Obama Bans 'Downer' Cows from Food Supply," a.s.sociated Press, March 14, 2009.
198 could be reversed by Obama's successor
Ibid.
199 In 1922, a "model eugenical sterilization law"
Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), p. 91.
200 were sterilized under laws similar to Laughlin's design
Alex Wellerstein, "Harry Laughlin's 'Model Eugenical Sterilization Law,' " http://alexwellerstein.com/laughlin/.
201 were burdensome to the state because of the expense
Paul Lombardo, "Eugenic Sterilization Laws," Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement, http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay8text.html.
202 people who were reproducing at rates not possible in the past
Jonathan D. Moreno, The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2011), p. 67.
203 he obviously believed they were heritable
Ibid., p. 67.
204 Laughlin was himself an epileptic
Wellerstein, "Harry Laughlin's 'Model Eugenical Sterilization Law.' "
205 Europe was influential in forming the highly restrictive quota system
Ibid.
206 influenced by deep confusion over what evolution really means
Moreno, The Body Politic, pp. 6467.
207 Sir Francis Galton, and was then popularized by Herbert Spencer
Ibid., p. 65.
208 based on the crackpot ideas of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Ibid.
209 after their birth were genetically pa.s.sed on to their offspring
