This isn't "neurotic" and I'm not talking 'bout rats !

[paul bruesch]

Agreed... great article about glue. I didn't read the mad cow one 'cuz BSE
is one of numerous reasons I'm glad I don't eat cows and I get sortta
squeamish reading things like that sometimes and I just ate.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Jan 8, 2008 3:26 PM, <annie at allthingspiano.com> wrote:

> In response to the concern about hide glue and "mad cow" disease (BSE), I
> decided to do a little research.  American rendering plants use
> solvent-based extraction processes, and hide glue is made by additionally
> cooking the connective tissues, horn, hooves, and of course hide for long
> times at relatively high heat.  This combination is particularly effective
> against the prions that cause BSE-type diseases in humans.
>
> British processing plants stopped using solvent-based extraction methods
> during the 1990s, leading to several deaths among gardeners who handled
> bone meal from infected animals.  The other, later deaths appear to have
> been due to eating meat from infected animals.  See
> http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/garden/madcow.html for more information.
>
> I also ran across this very lucid article on the virtues of hide glue v
> PVA glue and thought it might be useful to others, as well --
> http://www.inthewoodshop.org/2005/hideglue.shtml
>
> Annie Grieshop
> (who has gone through severe metal poisoning and takes these things pretty
> seriously -- but also believes in verifying....)
>
>
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