"Tom La Bron" wrote in message ...
Folks,

Of course, you must know that the majority of this scare is media driven.
Mad Cow Disease (MCD) is transmitted trough nerve tissue and unless you are
eating raw meat you won't get MCD.

Excuse me, but that is inaccurate.

The proteins that cause this class of disease can withstand cooking.
It can withstand anything that does not turn it into ashes, which
poses a bit of a problem for surgeons; steam sterilizers are not hot
enough to decontaminate surgical instruments (per a news article on
the subject back when England was having trouble with it).

CWD in deer: One of the posters in misc.rural stated that she had been
told by her vet that chronic wasting desease was carried by rabbits
and deer got it by eating rabbit dung. (That seems an odd thing for
deer to eat, and raises the question as to how deer catch it from
other deer.) She was going to get back to the group on monday. I was
not able to find anything on the net about that link.

(There's many different prion diseases, and if this is the same one
that caused a few human deaths, then how come there have not been a
lot more human deaths? Lots of wild rabbits get eaten every year.)

The posters in misc.rural are pretty concerned as several of them
raise cattle. The group has a chronic problem with trolls cross
posting to the animal politics groups and the veggy groups, so you
will need to pick and choose which to read. The main thread is "Holy
Shit" G.