On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:59:21 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>Oh pshaw, on Fri 09 Nov 2007 04:49:17p, Mark Thorson meant to say...
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>You could also cook it outside on the grill.

Ops. Didn't see this before I posted the same thing. Sorry.

Lou