Re: Mad Cow Disease
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- Subject: Re: Mad Cow Disease
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- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:59:44 -0700 (MST)
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> From: Bill Shear <bills@tiger.hsc.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
> Subject: OT: Mad Cow Disease
> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 6:32 AM
>
> Has there been any noise
> >implicating blood meal (as there has been for bonemeal) in transmission
of
> >that brain-rotting mad cow disease to humans?
>
> I have not heard any of the "noise" implicating bonemeal in any health
hazard.
>
> The mad cow flap in Britain (according to level-headed British colleagues
> of mine) was mostly a media-generated hysteria.
>
> It is not known if mad cow disease, a spongiform encephalopathy (makes
> holes in the brain) is in fact the same as the human Creutzfeld-Jacob
> syndrome. Maybe, maybe not.
>
> There was not one single proven case of a human getting the disease from
beef.
>
> The danger supposedly came about because cows were being fed other cows
> (and sheep), ground up. This is not legal in the United States. Since
the
> dried blood you can buy in the garden center is of domestic origin, there
> is no danger. Much if not most of it comes from pigs in any case.
>
> If there really were any danger, you would be at far greater risk
consuming
> any meat product whatsoever. You're going to sprinkle small amounts of
> this stuff on ornamental plants, for gosh sakes, not spoon it down like
> sugar!
>
>
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills@tiger.hsc.edu>
>
>
You might want to read an article in the Dec. 2, 1996 issue of the New
Yorker. Very informative and correlated with what the shepherds in this
country have been saying for years, a bit concerning.
