Eating habits and the Globalization of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Dear All,

May have missed most of this on " Eating Habits " while away - but in 1996,

the year of the infamous admissions by the UK government on the

transmissibility of BSE to humans, someone in Australian government circles

made the decision to ban the import of British toffee which contains bovine

gelatin - there was no public announcement, we learned about it only in

December 96 when there were no UK toffees available for Christmas presents

- BUT, like elsewhere, we still get UK cattle for breeding purposes -

EXCEPT these are no longer known as UK cattle, since they come into

Australia via Argentina, and are called .... YES, you guessed it ..

Argentinean Cattle!!!!! Then, of course, these UK/Argentinean cattle are

bred into Australian cattle lines and exported all over the world. This is

one of the windows I refer to in the series of papers " Globalization of Mad

Cow disease " , which of course when it transmits to our food chain becomes

the " Globalization of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease " .

Regards to all, Lynette.

I have an as yet unwritten paper to present here in Perth in an hours time,

one that like most others these days will have to come off the top of my

head, but I couldn't resist passing these few comments in the context of

" Eating Habits " !!

At 02:27 PM 12/3/98 -0500, you wrote:

>From: LArmstr853@...

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>Sheryl:

> The softening agent in gum is from boiled cow skin & bones.... YUCK!

Can't

>stomach the thought... a letter went thru the group recently that was a copy

>of the letter from Wrigleys gum telling a lady that their gum would not fit

>into her vegetarian diet. good luck on your quitting smoking! use the

>patches! they make a tremendous difference!!! Liz.

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> Why don't you chew gum anymore? What is in that and ice cream that should be

> avoided? Congratulations on quitting smoking!! I still have that left to

>do,

> with any luck in 1999. >>

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