'Bon apetite' was Re: [extropy-chat] wretched journalists strike again

[Acy Stapp]

Spongiform encephalies like mad cow or Creutzfeldt Jacobs disease are
not affected by cooking.

Acy

On 12/12/05, Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I'm curious and slightly sceptical about that "tasting yucky". I think we
> have touched on this before here. I wonder if there is in fact any good
> data or science behind it. I understand that tribes that ate the brains of
> their recently dearly departed family tended to get nasty prion type
> diseases perhaps like 'mad cows' or 'cruishanks jakobs' but I'm inclined
> to think they probably just didn't cook 'the meal' very well and that is
> generally a dangerous practice regardless of what form of  animal one
> eats.
>
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Acy Stapp

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