Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:05 PM 7/9/03 -0700, Eric Welch wrote: >on 07/09/03 7:17 AM, animal at s.jessurun95@chello.nl wrote: > >> I think that cooking has no impact on the pathogens that cause mad cow >> disease. > >A friend of mine who works for the Salk Institute told me proper cooking >does in fact kill the prions that cause Mac Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform >Encephalopathy, or BSE for short). > Ah, C'mon, Eric. Surely you recall the exchange between those two cows: FIRST COW: Damn, but this Mad Cow hysteria has me really run ragged! SECOND COW: I agree. Thank God we're sheep. <sorry! I vaguely recall that I posted this selfsame joke here around 1996 or '97. So, I'm dull!> Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html