Re: "This Is Your Brain On Cow"

At 02:09 PM 6/10/01 -0400, Greg Newby wrote:

This is because there are strict US FDA regulations concerning the use of infected beef in restaraunts, but they have little to say about what individuals in private homes eat.

Indeed there's been a few cases of something like BSE in Americans who've eaten elk and / or deer. But since the infected aren't fed back into the population, there's no way for it to spread. (E.g., if it arises spontaneously now and then.) Grass-eaters are not carnivores, much less cannibals, in the wild. By definition.