Re: NAIS

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> > Farm1 <please@askifyouwannaknow> wrote:

> > Tracking of meat from the paddock to the plate is now something that
> > can be
> > expected if the US wants to sell into fussy markets like Japan and Europe.

> I'm not an expert so correct me if I am wrong.

> My understanding is that these prions are found in the brain matter and
> spinal cords of infected cattle and when bits and pieces get mixed in
> with the muscle cuts the possibility of contacting BSE exists.

> For the groups information..... just the other day in Canada a group of
> scientists made the announcement that they believe they have found
> these prions in leg muscles of deer.

> Needles to say that would be bad news for hunters.

> Correct me if I am wrong.

It's not new news. In Scotland, there's a very high population of
wild red deer (wapiti to you (waves to Skip's ghost), and deer-hunting
is a massive business..especially to Germans who come here to hunt them.
For many years now, in the wake of BSE in UK cattle, those German
hunters have declined to eat UK deer carcases they killed.

Their caution doesn't really make sense because there's no evidence
that deer disease infects humans, or that deer have been infected with
BSE, or with Scrapie, the equivalent disease in sheep. Scrapie has
been widely present in British sheep flocks for 100's of years, and is
supposed to be the source of BSE in cattle, but it has never been
transmitted to humans. Even though humans used to eat sheeps heads,
sheeps brains etc. I regularly cook sheep spinal cord (neck of lamb and
lamb chops). Scrapie has never transmitted from sheep to humans, so it's
by no means a foregone conclusion, that Deer-wasting will be
transmissible to humans.


Janet


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