Sqwertz wrote:
>
> Scientists have managed to give pigs BSE. It's only a matter of
> time before some PETA freaks break in and free them.

Yes, but that was direct injection of infectious material
into their brains. Pig-to-pig transmission has never been
observed, nor occurrence of a natural form of a transmissable
spongiform encephalopathy in pigs.

In principle, it should be possible to infect the brains
of salmon, because they have the PrP protein. I do
worry about the crap food fed to farmed salmon, and for
that reason do not eat farmed salmon.

I had my first piece of orange roughy in 20 or 30 years
for lunch today. Kind of remarkable to think that this
piece of fish came from an animal which is likely to have
been about 75 years old, but could easily have been over
100 years old. It was good, but it made my kitchen
(the whole house, really) smell like fish. I wish I had
a good tactic to avoid that. I might cook the second
piece by wrapping in a foil envelope.