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EAST WARREN, VT - MARCH 23: Francis Faillace, 16 (L), comforts his mother, Linda, as she pets a sheep peering out of a hole in the side of a cattle trailer after the USDA seized 126 Beltex and East Friesian sheep suspected of having a strain of mad cow disease from their farm, 23 March 2001, East Warren, Vermont. (Photo credit should read STEVEN E. FRISCHLING/AFP via Getty Images)

EAST WARREN, VT - MARCH 23:  Francis Faillace, 16 (L), comforts his mother, Linda, as she pets a sheep peering out of a hole in the side of a cattle trailer after the USDA seized 126 Beltex and East Friesian sheep suspected of having a strain of mad cow disease from their farm, 23 March 2001, East Warren, Vermont.  (Photo credit should read STEVEN E. FRISCHLING/AFP via Getty Images)