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. -- laz I am the Dread Pirate Roberts #23546. Ask me about franchise opportunities!