Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Hemenway wrote: > Rolfe: > > I watched a tv special on Mad Cow/Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease several > months ago. One of the scientists interviewed related that he had > placed some of the Mad Cow/Creutzfeldt-Jakob "stuff" into the red-hot > coals of a fire and then buried the ashes for three months. At the end > of that time he found that the prions remained viable. > > I don't think that cooking beef well done makes a difference except the > things such as e-coli bacteria. > > My mother, a McMahon, cooked EVERYTHING well done. I think the praxes > goes back for centuries. > > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com I guess my English friend who gave me that information was himself misinformed. I'm just glad that Mad Cow hasn't been a problem on this side of the Atlantic since I am a confirmed beefeater, the rarer the better please. ;-). Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html