Eating the flesh of animals is so icky, you brute.

Also, I didn't know there was a medical link established between chronic wasting and any human disease.

B

Believe what you want to Bot, or get the TRUTH:


http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow01-02.htm

I think he is kidding, because that would have made national news. However, a quick google search on "mad cow disease" did turn up a link to an article on how Mad Cow is Bush's fault (seriously).

cool picture here: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nahps/cwd/

Knuckleheads haven't gotten the message: http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/guides/cwd/health.asp

Med- Glad you enjoyed yourself. Did you leave room for dessert?

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Jeeze, here's a quote from that link:

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When mad cow disease first appeared, officials said it was "just like scrapie in sheep," the oldest known TSE, never known to have infected humans. The disease is called scrapie because infected sheep become so deranged that they rub themselves raw attempting to scrape off their fur. There is unproven speculation that CWD originated when environmental contamination passed scrapie from sheep to deer housed at Colorado State University's Foothills Research Station, then to wild deer and elk. That's one reason Wisconsin officials say CWD is like scrapie. Of course, that's what the British government thought, too, while nearly two million contaminated cattle slipped into the human food chain.

For more than a decade -- even after cats fed infected beef meat and bone meal came down with a mad cow-like disease -- the British government insisted that human beef eaters were protected by a "species barrier." Five years after some physicians and scientists started sounding alarms about eating infected beef, then British Prime Minister John Major was still reassuring the public: "There is no scientific evidence that BSE can be transmitted to humans." In January 1996, British Agriculture Minister John Gummer appeared on TV to feed his young daughter, Cordelia, a hamburger to demonstrate that beef was safe.

Two months later, everyone knew it wasn't true. Two dairy farmers, a butcher, a meat pie maker and eight young people who had eaten contaminated beef were dead from an Alzheimer's-like disease called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). It looked similar to the rare sporadic CJD that affects only one person per million, but when their brains were autopsied, they looked just like the brains of mad cows. The government finally admitted that the "species barrier" -- if it existed at all -- had holes in it.

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And I keep forgetting where I put my keys.

Interesting info in that link... scary, but very interesting.

Thanks,

Pete

Actually I didn't know this:

Cooking at temperatures above 600 degrees C doesn't kill the infectious agent in TSEs, nor do detergents and enzymes known to kill most viruses. Radiation doesn't faze it, and even after being buried in the soil for three years, enough prions remain to spread the disease. Chlorine bleach is one of the better disinfectants, in concentrations of 50 percent and higher, but sometimes even that has diminished effectiveness. It's difficult to find a neurologist like Antuono willing to autopsy the brain of a patient suspected of dying of a TSE. A splash in the eye of bodily fluid can carry the disease straight to the brain.

Beef by-products are now banned from human consumption in Europe (though not in the United States), but since human TSEs incubate for decades, no one knows what the final human death toll will be. Those who have already died shared one of three genetic variations for the human prion protein, a genetic make-up seen in 40 percent of the population. But "that doesn't mean others are immune," says UW's Aiken. The disease may merely incubate longer in people with other genes

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No beef-by-products in Europe? Interesting... Really scary crap. We've been thinking about cutting red meats out... but it is VERY hard!

Normal hospital or doctors office autoclaves do not kill the Mad Cow prion.

and i already have Mad Medmech; that trumps Mad Cow by a long shot.

Since some of you are in Loosiana, please tell me what a Neutria is, and is it edible or is it something more like a rat? I've heard of these, but don't have a clear idea of what they are.

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It's a giant aquatic rat with tits on its back.

I have eaten it prepared several ways. Smoked sausage is best, with lots of spices. Then grill the sausage and then plop it into a turtle sauce piquant. But that's just me.

The sauce piquant is better without the nutria.

What wine was served?

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I managed to miss the Nutria New Orleans restaurant boom. Of course I would eat one if it meant otherwise going hungry, but those bastards are just plain filthy up close. Yaller teeth and all.

One that's spelled with an "h".

B

New Orleans restaurant staffs or the neutria?