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Re: Bone Meal---Is it harmful?

Hi Bill

Yes I think this is true.  I have just disposed of my bag of blood
fish and bonemeal.  I sent two messages to the Organic Gardening List
last week on the subject last week.  It is likely that the risk to
gardeners is not just to those in the UK.  If you have a Web browser
try doing a search with 'spongiform' as the target.  Webcrawler found
me 135 references.

Best wishes

Joe Hemmens

> Last night watching TV (*Dateline* --NBC) I heard a very scary thing and
> am writing this to seek verification.
>
> The segment was about "Mad Cow Disease" and its apparent relation to
> human disease in the form of a brain degeneration (CJ Disease).  The
> mechanism for spread is apparently the  ground-up remains of sheep and
> cattle, some of which are sick with this brain infection, being added as
> a feed supplement to healthy animals.  Humans may get sick when they eat
> the now infected meat.
>
> Problem is that this feed supplement is BONE MEAL.  The british scientist
> noted that several persons who died of CJ Disease were gardeners.  The
> commentator added that the British Horticultural Society had advised
> wearing a mask when using bone meal.
>
> Is that true?
>
> Bill ;(
> wnryan@juno.com
> Gee...Life is like a scary Sci-Fi novel---Who needs Steven King?
>
>

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