Storrs, CT 06269 Sep 26, 2006 Former Sheep Farmer Linda Faillace wll talk her book Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm. Thursday, October 5, 4:00 pm, UConn Co-op

After an idyllic few years in England, Linda Faillace and her husband Larry Faillace, a PhD in animal physiology, moved to Vermont and began breeding and importing sheep for milk and meat. Committed to organic and sustainable farming, and an advocate of locally grown food, they were shocked and dismayed when a government agency said that their flock harbored Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow Disease). “Despite the Faillaces’ documented evidence of the impossibility of these accusations, the USDA confiscated and then slaughtered the sheep,” putting their farm out of business. We now know that the lab that did the testing has been discredited and shut down by the USDA. In her book, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm, Linda Faillace gives her account of this agricultural tragedy.

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