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Wednesday, Dec 24, 2003

Insane Food

I heard a report on the radio about the mad cow in the Pacific Northwest, after eating a huge Philly cheese steak. So I couldn't decide which part creeped me out the most:

• Apparently it's standard practice to go ahead and use the meat from a "down cow". That's jargon for an obviously diseased animal.
  
  
• We're not supposed to be worried about contamination of the food supply because the brain and spine of the down cow were separated from the rest of the carcass. And, they're working to track down that meat. Even if they can't find the meat, don't worry about that nasty and almost indestructable prion. Because skeletal meat hasn't been shown to carry the prion. Assuming, of course, that the meat wasn't contaminated by brain or spinal tissue during the slaughter and cutting.
  
  
• We're not supposed to be worried about contamination of the food supply because the brain and spine of the down cow were sent to a rendering plant. And, of course, no one would use the output of a bovine rendering plant in cow feed. Cause that would be illegal.

I've been reading good things about salmon lately. Good omega-3 levels without much mercury. And the wild ones don't eat much bovine meat and bone meal.
- mark 12-24-2003 6:35 am [link] [9 comments]

I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway.


tip 'o the hat to steve

previous in series of Republican bumper stickers

- mark 12-24-2003 6:09 am [link] [3 comments]

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