From the National Market Cow and Bull Beef Quality Audit - 1999

“Euthanasia should be considered for disposing of ‘downers’ or cattle with advanced or terminal disease conditions; that may be more responsible and humane than transporting an afflicted animal to a processing plant in an effort to use it for human consumption.”
— From the National Market Cow and Bull Beef Quality Audit 1999, conducted by Colorado State University for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

“I will only participate in the marketing of cattle that continue to be mobile. . . . I will humanely euthanize cattle when necessary to prevent suffering.”
— Excerpt from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association’s Quality Assurance Marketing Code of Ethics (February 2000)