Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert <lister at insaneninjahero.com> writes: > The only way you're going to catch BSE is if you eat an infected cow's > brain. Beef is perfectly safe. Or spinal cord. Automated stripping of meat from the spine often gets bits of the nerves, too. I would regard any ground beef product as a potential vector. Inspectors reports say they often find bits of CNS tissue on solid cuts of meat, too. You may remember that over 100 people in Britain *did* catch vCJD, without straightforwardly eating a cow's brain. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>