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Very Funny- Turn your speakers up!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul D. Butler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: mad cow disease
> Think you have your facts a little wrong....chronic wasting disease in
deer
> and elk....not "mad cow" second, the odds of contracting CJD through "mad
> cow" here in the US of A are a whole lot higher than one in a
> million...probably more like one-in-a-billion.
>
> No documented cases of anyone dying from contracting CJD from consumption
of
> deer and/or elk........the situation definitely warrants attention and a
> person needs to keep up with the news about the disease and any possible
> transfer to humans through consumption but unfounded fear is misplaced.
>
> > From: Hilary McClure <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List
<[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:20:46 -0400
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: mad cow disease
> >
> > Carine Klein wrote:
> >>
> >> How dangerous do you consider the threat of "mad cow Disease"in Elk and
> >> venison.These have been a staple of mine in the Paleo diet.
> >
> > Check out this article: http://www.mercola.com/2002/aug/28/mad_cow.htm
> >
> > It says you have a one-in-a-million chance of getting mad cow or CJD.
> > But on the other hand, the three young men who have died of it *may*
> > have all eaten elk from Colorado or Wyoming, and the disease is
> > spreading rapidly eastward. Now in Wisconsin. It doesn't seem to be
> > spreading in the way they think mad cow was spreading--by feeding ground
> > up animals to livestock--because deer don't eat each other. They don't
> > know how it's being transmitted. Where I live in Vermont, the Fish and
> > Wildlife department says we have a very health deer population. But by
> > the time I hear about it having spread as far east as Ohio I'm going to
> > stay away from local venison, sadly.
> >
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