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Steve's Web Log

Fri Jan 9 12:03:16 PST 2004

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:08:29 -0600, you wrote:

>David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>
>> I thought it was a little ironic that we get a recipe involving
>> beef just as the whole "Mad Cow" thing breaks. 
>
>Beef prices are down.  I bought a slab of round steak for $2.49 a
>pound the other day.  
>
>Do remember that, so far as we know at the moment, BSE has killed
>fewer humans in all of history than salmonella from chicken kills in a
>year.  
>
>And that people have died from bacteria on green onions, too.  The
>recipe I used the first bit of the round steak for also had green
>onions in it, and I actually worried about that part more. 

And various toxic molds, etc., are also deadly killers.

The panic is likely to cause more economic damage than anything else.


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