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That headless chicken one was shocking!!!Congratulations!
You've won 50 total points out of a possible 80.
Well, poor slaughterhouse sanitation aside. A person cannot get CDJ from a cow infected with BSE.Originally Posted by CarolPetunia
That was fun, thanks! But I have to mention one thing that bothers me...
They claimed that it is not possible to get Creuzfeld-Jakov Disease from gelatin products -- but even in their own answer, they leave the door of possibility wide open! And when the stakes are this high, I say even a remote possibility is too much.
If you've ever seen hidden-camera video inside slaughterhouses, showing the way animal carcasses are handled, you know it's almost inevitable that there is cross-contamination of all kinds of tissues, as well as of intestinal contents (including E-coli).
Also... there have been some U.S. cases of death from supposedly unidentified illnesses whose symptoms sound suspiciously like CJD. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but there's a lot of money riding on the meat industry, and a lot of people who have a vested interest in making sure no CJD case is ever diagnosed in this country.
It all makes me very, very glad I'm a vegetarian!
Oh, Bikeman! Your quote makes my little heart go pitterpat! It's so rare these days to run across anyone who remembers that...Originally Posted by Bikeman
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Haha. Yes, and its completely understandable because the media pushed it for so long and found lots of "scientists" to "confirm" it. And for the most part thats all a layman would hear/read about - magazine and newspaper and TV stories about how you can get CDJ from BSE. The average person doesn't go around reading scientific journals and therefore would never get the actual scientific premise of the disease. All they get is the media version. But seriously - ask a doctor, researcher or scientist and they'll explain exactly what I did. And it aggravates the hell out of me that the media can manage to cause such a scare with no basis in reality or science whatsoever. But thats the power of the media (FAR scarier than mad cow disease if you ask me).Originally Posted by CarolPetunia
Frisk, it sure sounds as if you know what you're talking about, but that's precisely the opposite of everything I've ever read on the subject, so... I don't know what to think! And that's usually the way -- various phases of research get reported, various organizations put their own spin on it by "buying" their own research, different writers tell the story more and less accurately, and pretty soon it's almost impossible to find out what's true.
Still, if you read the Mythbusters answer on that question... it is worded so as to leave the door of possibility open, and that's why it bothered me. A 99% likelihood of safety is not the same as 100%, doggone it, and it worries me when people are so imprecise with such important issues. It's just like AIDS -- in the early years, they were so quick to reassure us that it couldn't be passed this way, couldn't be passed that way... but in fact, it can be and has been passed in all sorts of ways that they called impossible when they were really only improbable. That's what I was getting at.
I sure hope you're right about BSE vs. CJD... but you'll forgive me if I remain HUGELY cautious! The stakes are just too high to trust that we know all there is to know, or that accidents can't possibly happen.
And anyway... BLECCH!