From: Gregg Nemesure 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
news:3fecc1ab$1{at}w3.nls.net:

>> "Serious questions were being asked about US standards after it
>> emerged that the cow in which the disease was found was suspected of
>> having the degenerative nervous disease, but was still slaughtered
>> and its meat processed."
>
> That's what I've been hearing and I want to know WHY.
>
>> Riiight.  Anyone going to eat a burger in the near future?
>
> I did just a few minutes ago.
>
> - Bob Comer

I have not been able to determine if the infectious agent even survives
cooking. It is supposedly found only in brain or spinal cord, so how would
a person eating normal cuts of beef be affected?

Maybe it is better to get meat from a kosher butcher to make sure there is
no mixing with "traif" like that. Or maybe spinal cord is not
traif. Mmmm, spinal cord.

I also would like to know if it can be present in milk.

Gregg

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