_.-In rec.food.cooking, Sam D. wrote the following -._
> The USDA and the meat industry have insisted the U.S. beef supply is safe
> because the most infectious parts of the cows -- the brain, spinal cord and
> intestines -- are being removed.

And that is the part that never makes it on the TV news. If more
people knew that you could eat a steak from a mad cow and not worry
because the meat has no tracess of the problem.
Thus.. I don't panic. And I say this as someone who has read The
Jungle.

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