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What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips)
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Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:13:18 GMT
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Perhaps you may have been here long enough to catch "mad cow disease"? Does
your brain feel a little spongy? :-)
I have not eaten beef more than ~12 years now due to BSE. Needless to say I
have never eaten any beef from the USA, as it is unfit for human (or
animal?) consumption as far as the EU is concerned. Something to do with all
those lovely growth hormones you like in your beef.
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> >
> > C) It appears that many more Brits die of sickness. Why? Is the UK just a
> > wildly more contaminated place (could be, given history and density -- I just
> > don't know)?
>
> Well it could just be those pesky UN statistics... but I just went to the
> Red Cross site to check on blood donation criteria and they don't want your
> blood if you have spent more than 3 months total in the UK or Ireland since
> 1980 (or 6 months in the Rest of Europe), presumably due to CJD since it's
> right after the other CJD high risk things.
>
> I have 2.5 months of UK and one month of Rest of Euro on my odometer. Math
> problem, does that make me ineligible or not? I honestly wasn't sure.
>
> > I know it couldn't be a faulty health care system...I read
> > somewhere recently that the healthcare system in the UK was really good!
>
> I was very careful not to get sick while I was there. Well sort of. I didn't
> have any unprotected sex anyway.
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