Does this make any sense?
Edited by 32rueduVertbois, 12 November 2004 - 02:25 AM.
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32rueduVertbois
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32rueduVertbois
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Posted 12 November 2004 - 02:21 AM
Our annual trip to the Adirondacks is our time for gorging on red meat, and on the way up we always stop a certain butcher/smokehouse to get a load of thick steaks and wursts for the grill. This year, we were disappointed to learn that the butcher no longer sells any steaks with the bone. The proffered explanation: mad cow.
Does this make any sense?
Does this make any sense?
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deltadoc
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Posted 12 November 2004 - 06:06 AM
From reading about mcd, it would seem to indicate that the spinal column and brains are where any danger would lie. Not read anything about regular bones being a problem.
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Harold McGee
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Posted 12 November 2004 - 03:11 PM
Some steak bones are the backbone, which surrounds the spinal cord, so that does make some sense. The apparent infectious particles, the prions, are especially concentrated in the brain, spinal column, and optic nerve. Beef on the bone was banned in England for a while, but no longer. This is the first I've heard of such a voluntary precaution in the US.
