At 05:14 PM 6/10/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
At 03:59 PM 6/10/01, David Honig wrote:
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.)
I'm on the Pro-Med list and if there were any positive link between eating BSE-infected deer or elk, they'd be talking about it there. They aren't. Currently, there is only a recommendation that hunters not eat brains or spinal cords.
What is it you know or think you know, that they do not?
I know how to read, and I read _Science_. A sidebar called "American's own prion disease" describing Chronic Wasting Disease belonging to the transmissable spongiform encephalopathies (like Creutzfeld-Jakob and BSE). Vol 292 1 June 01 p 1641 Part of a larger article, "Is the US doing enough to prevent mad cow disease" p 1639-1641