How soon will your brain turn into a sponge?

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As for myself, I have been eating gelatin-capsule type vitamins fairly regularly for 15 or 20 years. They say it probably takes about 40 years for the mad cow effect to eat your brain, so I guess I might be sane until the year 2020 or so. How about you?

-- looking forward (to@going.nuts), February 26, 2001

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now you know why the richest-nation has so many doctors & drugs!!! yup, they messed with nature & now the damage is -so far spread it's beyond repair!! don,t worry about the nukes gettin us--the food WILL!!!!!

INVESTMENT-TIP-------CASKET'S

-- al-d (dogs@zianet.com), February 26, 2001.


Heh. A sponge would be pretty cool. Sponges ABSORB stuff. Actually, the problem doesn't seem to be in the absorption. I understand completely that even this old brain absorbs stuff. It's the recall that presents the problems. Sanity or insanity was never a concern of mine. I haven't seen sanity in my family, so I just assume that insanity is a "normal" state for us.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), February 26, 2001.

It's already a sponge. When, if ever, will it become normal?

Nice to see you, Anita. I hope things are going well for you these days.

-- kb (kb8um8@yahoo.com), February 26, 2001.


So gelatin capsules are beef products? 'Splain please.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), February 26, 2001.

This might help, Lars.

Gelatin capsules are made from beef and pork skin products.

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), February 26, 2001.



so I just assume that insanity is a "normal" state for us.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), February 26, 2001.

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HA!.....define "normal" -----I'm still trying to figure what normal is.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), February 26, 2001.


Peg--

Thanks for the link. It is amazing what I learn on this board. I always thought that gelatin was made from jello. In fact, it's probably the other way around.

Oh well, as long as the animal product comes from "approved" abbatoirs. And the acid or alkalyne pre-treatment has been shown by Oscar Meyer researchers to kill 95% of kuru bacteria.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), February 26, 2001.


Newsweek, this week, cover story, Mad Cow Disease. How we will all turn into rabid fundamentalist, home-schooling, RePUBICons.

-- headache (not@tonight.honey), March 08, 2001.

looking forward,

Mad Cow Disease (BSE - bovine spongiform encephalitis) is transmitted only by ingestion of brain and spinal cord tissues, of which gelatin is _not_ made. (Thanks for the link, Peg.) Gelatin's safe.

Might want to make a note in the margin of the beef-brain recipe in "Joy of Cooking", however. Cooking doesn't destroy prions (the infectious agents for BSE) unless the meat is charred black all the way through.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), March 08, 2001.


Lars,

>Oh well, as long as the animal product comes from "approved" abbatoirs. And the acid or alkalyne pre-treatment has been shown by Oscar Meyer researchers to kill 95% of kuru bacteria.

Can you provide a reference? Kuru is transmitted by prions, which are not bacteria and are harder to destroy than bacteria.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), March 08, 2001.



Make that bovine spongiform _encephalopathy_, not "encephalitis".

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), March 08, 2001.

Q: How soon will your brain turn into a sponge?

A: I have a brain?

-- Break out the cookies and milk (aimless@national_raffle_association.org), March 08, 2001.


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