Re: Raw eggs & meat - what standards to use? ( Bianca, pls. help)

[Guest guest]

A couple of things:

The freezing method for eliminating toxoplasmosis is only effective, if it's

effective at all, when done to about 0 degrees F or about -20 degrees C and

maintained for 2-4 days. Get a freezer thermometer. I'm virtually certain

that your home freezer doesn't get that cold. Commercial freezers are much

more likely to be able to hit that temperature than a home freezer. I'm not

saying that such treatment is necessary or not necessary, but I wanted to

let everyone know that the sources that claim that such treatment of meat is

effective are very clear on the temperature necessary.

Also, when feeding raw foods to cats, you may be interested in this if you

have dogs in the same house or your cats range outdoors with possible

contact with neighboring canines:

[from www.stevesrealfood.com]

" Salmon in the Pacific Northwest carry a trematode worm that they contract

from eating amphibious snails, which eat bear poop; the bear eats salmon,

etc. The trematode itself is harmless to dogs and cats. It is killed by the

freezing procedures that we employ prior to processing. However, the

trematode carries a Neorickettsial bacterium that may not be killed in the

freezing procedures. (This bacterium is distantly related to the bug that

causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in humans.) It doesn't affect cats or

humans, but it does cause severe and usually fatal neurological symptoms in

canines, resulting in oft-reported salmon poisoning. "

[Guest guest]

Bianca wrote :

> I have a chapter in my book (in progress)

> called " Organic is Not Enough " .

Bianca,

When do you expect to finish it? Do you have a publisher for it yet, or are

you going to need to try to find one when you're done?

Thanks!

Minneapolis

[Guest guest]

Don't know actually. Was planning on starting my own publishing company

or using some publishing on demand technology connected to a website.

Networked with a couple of friends in the publishing industry and they

didn't sem to think an " established " publisher would touch something that

is so at odds with current politically correct nutritional dogma.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:55:50 -0600 Kroyer

<skroyer@...> writes:

Bianca wrote :

> I have a chapter in my book (in progress)

> called " Organic is Not Enough " .

Bianca,

When do you expect to finish it? Do you have a publisher for it yet, or

are

you going to need to try to find one when you're done?

Thanks!

Minneapolis

[Guest guest]

>>they didn't sem to think an " established " publisher would touch something that

is so at odds with current politically correct nutritional dogma.<<

They seem to pressure authors to write weight-loss books; I've seen so many

books marketed that way that the author probably didn't originally intend to

slant that way.

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