I think you have a better chance of winning the Snowball, if you buy a ticket, than getting mad cow from hide glue. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:05 PM Subject: Another very good reason to find a hide glue substitute.... >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 > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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