no bones

[32rueduVertbois]

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?

Edited November 12, 2004 by 32rueduVertbois (log)

[deltadoc]

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]

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.