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Post #239,758 by ben_tilly 12/28/05 10:44:48 PM Reply	Brought to you by the people... who thought that feeding dead animals to livestock was a good idea. Until mad cow disease turned up and entire herds had to be culled. Except that the ones in this country still think that it is a good idea - they just try to keep the cows with mad cow disease from coming into this country. (Of course now mad cow disease has been found in the USA, but they think that as long as it is just isolated cases, this is still OK to do. While we, of course, do exactly what it takes to turn isolated cases into an epidemic.) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #239,761 by Andrew Grygus 12/28/05 11:13:28 PM Reply	Yes, but this would be far safer. Steralized slaughterhouse waste would be among the cow byproducts used as furtilizer to grow chicken feed. It has to be disposed of somehow, and this way it doesn't get back to the cows until it's already been a plant and through a chicken. Chickens are not generally thought to transmit bovine diseases. Of course the general public would probably rather not know the cow made the milk they're pouring on their breakfast cerial out of chicken droppings, but hey, there's a lot of things they'd rather not know. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #239,772 by pwhysall 12/29/05 1:33:04 AM Reply	Prions are not destroyed by sterilization. In the UK, we know this. Moo! Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #239,788 by Andrew Grygus 12/29/05 11:07:11 AM Reply	Depends on the temp. Plants can still use the nutrients even after incineration temperatures, animals can't - and I doubt any prions would be incorporated into plant tissue in any case, but you'd have to be careful if land was fertilized with material containing prions. Prions can be destroyed by temperatures significantly above normal sterilization (above 140°C/280°F) and by chlorine or lye. California poultery growers are really into contamination elimination right now. They're using techniques more frequently associated with electronic clean rooms and employees are forbidden to have pet birds. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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