Andy,

Thank you for posting this link.  So does this mean I should stop eating
meat?  Would it matter now, anyways?

I am quite concerned about mad cow disease.  I read several years ago in
Newsweek an article by a man who put the estimate of people infected in the
next 20 years will be closer to double that.  And deaths will far outnumber
even those of AIDS.

This is a very important topic to this list because it infects our
paleolithic lifestyle in everyway.  If we were an organized group, we would
have no choice but to form a committee to come up with some policy regarding
the consumption of these meats immediately.  I wish I had more knowledge on
the subject to share with listers.  I don't think this is some kind of
"scare" to boast the beef industry sales.  I look forward to much greater
discussion on the matter here in the future.

Paleolithically yours,

Judith

   http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/99feb_cwd_special.html

So far, 80 people have died here from this terrible disease, and the latest
study suggests that the final toll could be 120,000.  I long ago stopped
eating
any beef products.