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Subject: Re: [Leica] Prion Diseases pose no threats to Leicas!
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:01:11 -0800
References: <BAB20198.A0C5%caliguri@rcn.com>

Edward Caliguri wrote:
> 
> Yes - it's an urban legend.
> I hope this brain consumption thing is done with. Yes - some cultures did
> consume ancestral brain remains. That's how Jacob-Kreutzfeld disease, the
> human form of "Scrapie" or "Mad Cow" disease was first discovered. I'd even
> stay away from Haggis nowadays. Years ago I had it and it's pretty good, but
> I would not take a chance now. Prions are very hard to eliminate, even by
> cooking. Cameras are immune - so photograph others eating the stuff!!
>     Ed
> 
> > Did you actually *read* the article?  The point of it is that this is
> > very likely an urban legend and it goes on to show why one should
> > suspect this.
> >
> > Besides, gorillas are not monkeys.  They are apes.
> >
> > M.
> 
You can buy brains at the Safeway. They call them something else.
And there's rubber bands around them so you don't loose a finger when
you pick one up.
Dead brains. Long dead. Synapses no longer firing. Cow no longer
screaming. Grey matter getting greyer. 

For ease of shipping they remove the brain from the cow. Oh! and first
they kill the cow - its a tricky sequence.

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...

Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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