sam and the health department

in the late 60 s and early 70 s livestock pharmacuticals were pretty primitive compared to today. i was workin at the t and c cattle co in maricopa, we were processing and feeding out 25,000 mexican steers every 120 days. that was before it was unhealthy to eat meat especially fat meat.
     when we processed cattle then we castrated bulls, branded and maybe gave 2 vaccines. if the cattle had grubs they got a cup of pour on spilled on their backs.  that was it!! we shipped the fats to the swift plant in tolleson, herseth pack in pheonix, crockett pack in pheonix, arizona beef in pheonix and a dozen packing houses on vernon street in los angeles.
        as the industry heated up we began to hear about cattle with "measles" . we never saw any cattle with red spots, but then we found out they were refering to carcasses with red spots, these red spots were tape worm larvea imbedded in the  tissue of beef. then they were hand trimmed out of the carcass, later they were frozen solid to kill them. well the packing house people were screaming their heads off at the feedlots, who screamed back. then the  health department got involved. well they decided employees at the feedlots were deficating in the feed troughs and the cattle would eat the crap with tape worm eggs and the cattle got measles.   so all the feedlots were to instal outhouses out in the yards. some called the porta poddy companies others built them and in the case of azl built  brick  out houses.  toveras were the worse  measle offenders , which no one could figgure out why. the fact that 90 percent of our cattle were straight out of mexico.    working in the yards was a old mexican man named serafin, and yes ime pretty sure he was illegal, but in them days no one thought anything of it.
      one day sam, the superintendent, called all the employees to the scale house. there waitting for us was a represenative of the state health department.  he gave us all a little speech about crapping in the feed trough and handed each of us a brown paper bag with a plastic sandwich bag inside.   we were instructed to place on the sandwich bag a "speciman" and then place the plastic bag in the paper bag, label our names on the outside and turn it into him the next day. well serafin spoke no english and by the time it was translated to him his eyes got that deer in the headlite look!! to  the rest of us this was the biggest joke in years.  how far fetched it got was a mystery to all of us but we were told to go along with it or loose our jobs. 
   next day there were a dozen brown paper bags in a box on sams desk, all labeled and some were decorated quite  artisticly. but serafins was absent, as a matter of fact serafin was absent.  we went to lookin for him and found him washing water troughes out in the pens . when asked  about his bag he ignored the question. sam was starting to get mad. serafin turned his back on us and said in spanish it was a un holy thing to do. sam didnt want to loose serafin as he was dependable and a hard worker but couldnt avoid the problem. we put serafin in the pickup and drove to the scale house. sam handed serafin his bag and he handed it back, shaking his head. same told him in spanish to take the bag, fill it, or we would tie up a leg and collect the desired sample ourselves!! a few minutes later the old man delivered the bag, head hanging.
        every one was cleared ,no tape worms resided at our yard. then they came up with cattle wormer that worked and the problem went away. but serafin was already gone, back to mexico, said all them damn gringos were un holy!!