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.<br>
<br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 3:26 PM, <<a href="mailto:annie@allthingspiano.com">annie@allthingspiano.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In response to the concern about hide glue and "mad cow" disease (BSE), I<br>decided to do a little research. American rendering plants use<br>solvent-based extraction processes, and hide glue is made by additionally
<br>cooking the connective tissues, horn, hooves, and of course hide for long<br>times at relatively high heat. This combination is particularly effective<br>against the prions that cause BSE-type diseases in humans.<br>
<br>British processing plants stopped using solvent-based extraction methods<br>during the 1990s, leading to several deaths among gardeners who handled<br>bone meal from infected animals. The other, later deaths appear to have
<br>been due to eating meat from infected animals. See<br><a href="http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/garden/madcow.html" target="_blank">http://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/garden/madcow.html</a> for more information.<br><br>I also ran across this very lucid article on the virtues of hide glue v
<br>PVA glue and thought it might be useful to others, as well --<br><a href="http://www.inthewoodshop.org/2005/hideglue.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.inthewoodshop.org/2005/hideglue.shtml</a><br><br>Annie Grieshop<br>
(who has gone through severe metal poisoning and takes these things pretty<br>seriously -- but also believes in verifying....)<br><br></blockquote></div><br>