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Old 06-23-2006, 12:29 PM
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Mad cow can stick around!

Evidently this research indicates that you could be infected with mad cow for over 50 years before symptoms become evident! And things like blood transfusions could potentially spread it...

Yikes!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/human-mad-cow-infection-could-hide-for-50-years/2006/06/23/1150845378945.html

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Old 06-23-2006, 12:37 PM
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well hopefully by then a vacine will be in the works...glad I switched to chicken, oh no bird flu......
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Old 06-23-2006, 12:44 PM
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I'm switching . . .

I'm switching to a chocolate only diet so I can avoid the dangers of mad cow disease and avian flu.
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Old 06-23-2006, 01:06 PM
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I'm switching to a chocolate only diet so I can avoid the dangers of mad cow disease and avian flu.
I'm going for good ol' organic homemade beer and single malt scotch.
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Old 06-23-2006, 05:15 PM
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Why worry with such trivial things? No one gets out of this alive. Live and let live. Pass me another filet mignon, please.
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Old 06-23-2006, 06:45 PM
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Why worry with such trivial things? No one gets out of this alive. Live and let live. Pass me another filet mignon, please.
There are good ways to go and there are bad ways. Mad cow disease is not one of the good ways!
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Old 06-23-2006, 09:13 PM
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Trust me. By the time your brain turns into swiss cheese, I seriously doubt you feel or think much. When symptoms show up, you are pretty much a shell of your former self.
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Old 06-23-2006, 09:23 PM
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This is one of the scariest diseases out there. The guy who explained it won the Nobel prize, and was considered an absolute kook until others confirmed his findings. It is not caused by a bacteria or a virus, there is not even the glimmering of an idea for a treatment, and it has an absolutely zero survival rate.

It's a good thing that it is very difficult to acquire.
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Old 06-23-2006, 09:25 PM
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Stay away from nervous tissue and you're probably safe.

Having said that, I grew-up eating the brains of game prepared in a variety of tasty dishes. As kid, it was a rite of passage to eat the brain of the animal you killed, probably akin to the New Guinean headhunter eating the brain of the vanquished. I wonder how primitive is the ritual consumption of the brain, heart, kidney, liver and blood of the game killed by the new hunter. I have never heard of ritual consumption of skeletal muscle tissue, have you? I think the transference of the ritual from game harvest to destruction of a feared human enemy is a step easily taken, especially in a protein-poor society.

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Old 06-25-2006, 01:06 AM
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Yeah, ate alot of head cheese growing up. Love that stuff on sandwiches. Guess I will find out if I had one head cheese sandwich too many in the future.
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Stay away from nervous tissue and you're probably safe.

Having said that, I grew-up eating the brains of game prepared in a variety of tasty dishes. As kid, it was a rite of passage to eat the brain of the animal you killed, probably akin to the New Guinean headhunter eating the brain of the vanquished. I wonder how primitive is the ritual consumption of the brain, heart, kidney, liver and blood of the game killed by the new hunter. I have never heard of ritual consumption of skeletal muscle tissue, have you? I think the transference of the ritual from game harvest to destruction of a feared human enemy is a step easily taken, especially in a protein-poor society.

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Damn, bro... That's pretty gross!

Seriously... I'm not sweating the mad cow thing, or the avian flu, or any of that....

Something is going to kill me eventually... "No one gets out of here alive", right?.... I refuse to go through life constantly worrying about such tings.. So I'm going to eat what I want (using common sense, of course), and if it's my time to go, it's my time to go.

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Old 06-25-2006, 09:55 AM
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Properly prepared, I'm thinking that brains ain't nearly as gross as a raw oyster. Which I also love!

Never had this, http://www.testyfesty.com/ but like you I ain't lettin' fear hold me back. I'm just taking a moment to prepare myself....
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Mountain oysters, really fatty. They always show up the "I dare you to eat it dinners."

Seagull tastes like fish.
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Stay away from nervous tissue and you're probably safe.

Having said that, I grew-up eating the brains of game prepared in a variety of tasty dishes. As kid, it was a rite of passage to eat the brain of the animal you killed, probably akin to the New Guinean headhunter eating the brain of the vanquished. I wonder how primitive is the ritual consumption of the brain, heart, kidney, liver and blood of the game killed by the new hunter. I have never heard of ritual consumption of skeletal muscle tissue, have you? I think the transference of the ritual from game harvest to destruction of a feared human enemy is a step easily taken, especially in a protein-poor society.

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before aids, no one thought a virus could jump species....so much for drinking monkey in a rite of passage......
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Old 06-25-2006, 04:25 PM
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Properly prepared, I'm thinking that brains ain't nearly as gross as a raw oyster. Which I also love!

Never had this, http://www.testyfesty.com/ but like you I ain't lettin' fear hold me back. I'm just taking a moment to prepare myself....
I'm usually very brave when it comes to trying new and/or unusual foods.... I love Kangaroo, for instance... Escargot... Caviar... I've tried snake, iguana, alligator, rabbit (not very good), numerous birds, bison... I love pretty much every kind of sushi and seafood that you can imagine (including raw oysters ), and probably some types that you can't...

But brains and balls I'll probably pass on.

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