"This Is Your Brain On Cow"

[Reese]

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?

Reese