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Let them eat cake
From a recent NY Times article:
To make her point that such infections may have been crossing species well before mad cows created a scandal in Britain a decade ago, she read from an old report she has posted on her office door.
It is from an 1883 issue of the Medical Veterinary Review: A veterinarian named Serraet from southwest France describes a cow he saw die of the symptoms of scrapie, which had then been known in sheep for 100 years: itching, nervousness, partial paralysis and, ultimately, coma.
Dr. Serraet ends with a suggestion: "I would advise the managers of cattle abattoirs to sell the meat only to lower-class butcher shops."
Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs¦at¦eircom¦dot¦net
To make her point that such infections may have been crossing species well before mad cows created a scandal in Britain a decade ago, she read from an old report she has posted on her office door.
It is from an 1883 issue of the Medical Veterinary Review: A veterinarian named Serraet from southwest France describes a cow he saw die of the symptoms of scrapie, which had then been known in sheep for 100 years: itching, nervousness, partial paralysis and, ultimately, coma.
Dr. Serraet ends with a suggestion: "I would advise the managers of cattle abattoirs to sell the meat only to lower-class butcher shops."
Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs¦at¦eircom¦dot¦net
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[nq:1]From a recent NY Times article: ... Dr. "[/nq] We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey.
- [nq:1]From a recent NY Times article: ...
- Dr.
- "[/nq] We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey.
- We also have LOW-class butcher shops (not sure of the difference), and one or two HIGH-class butcher shops.
- So ...
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[nq:1]From a recent NY Times article: ... Dr. Serraet ends with a suggestion: "I would advise the managers of cattle abattoirs to sell the meat only to lower-class butcher shops."[/nq]
We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey. We also have LOW-class butcher shops (not sure of the difference), and one or two HIGH-class butcher shops. So ... (?)
Many years ago one of my sailing f
We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey. We also have LOW-class butcher shops (not sure of the difference), and one or two HIGH-class butcher shops. So ... (?)
Many years ago one of my sailing f
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[nq:2]From a recent NY Times article: ... Dr. Serraet ends ... abattoirs to sell the meat only to lower-class butcher shops."[/nq]
[nq:1]We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey. We also have LOW-class butcher shops (not sure of the difference), ... always wondered what things would have been like if Bob had invested instead in steaks from a lower-class butcher shop.[/nq]
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[nq:1]We have lower-class butcher shops here in New Jersey. We also have LOW-class butcher shops (not sure of the difference), ... always wondered what things would have been like if Bob had invested instead in steaks from a lower-class butcher shop.[/nq]
Seagu
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In RAF Heliopolis in Egypt just after WWII I recollect a man emerging from the cookhouse with a sandwich in his hand that was snatched by a bird that we called kitehawks (or shitehawks) that perpetually circled the area. It was said that someone else experiencing a similar thing had inserted some calcium carbide in a sandwich and that was taken by a bird that flew off and quietly exploded. I have
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[nq:1]In RAF Heliopolis in Egypt just after WWII I recollect a man emerging from the cookhouse with a sandwich in ... some calcium carbide in a sandwich and that was taken by a bird that flew off and quietly exploded ...[/nq]
I am not familiar with quiet explosions. Pray tell.
[nq:1]... I have heard that it was a common practice in Portsmouth Hampshire in the pre-war days when bicycles wer
I am not familiar with quiet explosions. Pray tell.
[nq:1]... I have heard that it was a common practice in Portsmouth Hampshire in the pre-war days when bicycles wer
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[nq:2]In RAF Heliopolis in Egypt just after WWII I recollect ... by a bird that flew off and quietly exploded ...[/nq]
[nq:1]I am not familiar with quiet explosions. Pray tell.[/nq]
Popcorn farts?
[nq:1]I am not familiar with quiet explosions. Pray tell.[/nq]
Popcorn farts?
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[nq:1]Sea people do not like seagulls. Plain and simple. I hear quite a few land people wax enthusiastically about these vermin, but nary a sea person. Truth is, they're a species of rodentia that bode ill.[/nq]
Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that a neighbor in exercising his basic humanity, broke one wing so it could not fly. I ha
Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that a neighbor in exercising his basic humanity, broke one wing so it could not fly. I ha
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[nq:2]Sea people do not like seagulls. Plain and simple. I ... Truth is, they're a species of rodentia that bode ill.[/nq]
[nq:1]Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that ... floor covered with plastic sheeting and several large mirrors which I hoped would give it the sense of having company.[/nq]
Most pets don't require such elabora
[nq:1]Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that ... floor covered with plastic sheeting and several large mirrors which I hoped would give it the sense of having company.[/nq]
Most pets don't require such elabora
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[nq:2]Sea people do not like seagulls. Plain and simple. I hear quite a few land people wax enthusiastically[/nq]
"Wax enthusiastic". "Wax" means "grow" here.
[nq:1]about these vermin, but nary a sea person.[/nq]
[nq:2]Truth is, they're a species of rodentia that bode ill.[/nq]
So if you see them, you know something bad is going to happen? Even if you're not holding a steak?
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"Wax enthusiastic". "Wax" means "grow" here.
[nq:1]about these vermin, but nary a sea person.[/nq]
[nq:2]Truth is, they're a species of rodentia that bode ill.[/nq]
So if you see them, you know something bad is going to happen? Even if you're not holding a steak?
[n
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[nq:2]Sea people do not like seagulls. Plain and simple. I ... Truth is, they're a species of rodentia that bode ill.[/nq]
[nq:1]Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that ... it. I suppose I do not conform to general human standards in this respect,but I am not anxious to change.[/nq]
I know that in our state we have a list of (usual
[nq:1]Among the many animals I have kept in my house at one time or another, was a graywing seagull that ... it. I suppose I do not conform to general human standards in this respect,but I am not anxious to change.[/nq]
I know that in our state we have a list of (usual
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[nq:2]was a graywing seagull that a neighbor in exercising his basic humanity, broke one wing so it could not fly.[/nq]
[nq:1]How did your neighbor break the gull's wing by exercising his basic humanity?[/nq]
Two possibilities:-
1. He had not exercised his basic humanity for some time, and it was badlyout of practice.
2. Had he chosen to do so, he could have broken both wings and b
[nq:1]How did your neighbor break the gull's wing by exercising his basic humanity?[/nq]
Two possibilities:-
1. He had not exercised his basic humanity for some time, and it was badlyout of practice.
2. Had he chosen to do so, he could have broken both wings and b
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