I met with Howard Lyman, the "Mad Cowboy", last night. He gave an excellent talk at the University on prion diseases, AKA "Mad Cow Disease", "Creutzfield-Jacob", "Scrapie", etc. He cited Yale studies showing that about 18% of "Alzheimer's" in the U.S. is actually "Mad Cow" in humans, which is transferable from any species to any species via various types of contact, citing an Englishwoman, a lifelong vegetarian, who even died of it after sprinkling her roses with bone-meal dust and getting the powder in her eyes! Films of humans dying of "Mad Cow" were shown. Very shocking. "Hide Glue" is made of similar slaughterhouse leavings. Dumping it into a jar kicks up dust, which could infect you. The U.S. government, initially banning feeding animal remnants back to "livestock" after Mad Cow was discovered here, has, apparently, backed off due to pressure from the cattle industry. Research "Mad Cowboy" or "Howard Lyman" for more info. Does anyone know of a good substitute for hide glue: dries hard, can be softened with heat/moisture later to disassemble parts, and can be cleaned off from old joints witout too much grief, for new gluing ? Thump __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
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