"This Is Your Brain On Cow"

[David Honig]

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.