re: mad cow disease.
|> Biology not being my strong point can anyone explain ( simply ) why
|supposedly
|> only the offal parts are infected in animals diagnosed with BSE?
usually, it's organ meats (non-vegetarian-speak) that accumulate toxins.
Same in humans, cf: the tendency of the liver to become infected when
people drink too much booze. Or the tendency of the liver to be the
excretory organ through which most substances are excreted. Human breast
milk (like cow's milk) apparently accumulates all kinds of toxins,
too...but that apparently has to do with the strucuture of breast tissue:
mostly fat...
|> Not that I believe the states information "BSE cannot be transmitted cross
|> species" BULL
|> I seem to remember reading some where that milk had a high risk
|potential...but
|> that this theory was laughed of by the Governments advisors<frown> ?
Actually, the canadian government banned british beef in the early 1990s;
they were ridiculed for overreacting. Apparently, some british imports were
found to be carrying mad cow disease and were slaughtered and
incinerated... and now the gov't is patting themselves on the back saying
that "we didn't overreact afterall"...
|> We live in strange times...
yeah...
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