"TFM®" > wrote in message
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> > On 22-Jan-2007, "Stan (the Man)"
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > On 21-Jan-2007, "Stan (the Man)"
> > > > > wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > Oh yeh. I'd expect about an hour and a half for
> > > > that
> > > > little piece of dead pig in the typical rotisserie
> > > > environment.
> > >
> > > That's just about how long it took to reach 140. Took it
> > > off and let it
> > > sit til I finished sauteeing the green beans. Juiciest
> > > piece of pork
> > > I've ever eaten. The only bad part was convincing my
> > > Neandertal guests
> > > that it's not dangerous to eat pink pork. They did manage
> > > to get past
> > > their primal fears and I had no leftovers, the bastids.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Stan
> >
> > It probably won't help Stan, but you could tell your guests
> > that virtually all pork sold commercially these days is
> > certified. There's probably a different term for it now, but
> > the gist is that pork is frozen for a predetermined period
> > of time to kill any trichina worm(s) present in the flesh.
> > There's a table buried somewhere in the USDA archives
> > that gives the times and temperatures required. Actually
> > it only involves ordinary freezer temperatures and a week
> > to ten days to get the job done. Commercially, they can
> > go to -20°F for just a couple of days to assure that all
> > trichina are dead. Minus five in your ordinary home freezer
> > will get the job done in something under two weeks. When
> > our folks were young, pork went from the butch block to
> > the table and thus cooking was the only assurance of
> > saftey from trichinosis.
>
>
> Lest we not forget that part about commercially raised pork being confined
> it's entire life and unable to forage in the woods like the trichinae
ridden
> bear.
>
> Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis, or trichiniasis, is a parasitic
> disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products
> infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis,
> commonly called the trichina worm. The few cases in the United States are
> mostly the result of eating undercooked game or home reared pigs. It is
most
> common in the developing world and where pigs are commonly fed raw
garbage.
>
> ==========
>
> Symptoms can be divided into two types: symptoms caused by worms in the
> intestine, and symptoms caused by worms elsewhere.
>
> In the intestine, infection can cause:
>
> a.. Nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, and abdominal discomfort
> Later, as the worms encyst in different parts of the body, other symptoms
> occur such as:
>
> a.. Headaches, fevers, chills, cough, eye swelling, aching joints and
> muscle pains, pinpoint hemorrhages, itchy skin, and heightened numbers of
> white blood cells.
> =========
>
> Aww shit! I've got it!
>
> =========
>
> For mild to moderate infections, most symptoms subside within a few
months.
> Fatigue, weakness, and diarrhea may last for months.
>
> =========
>
>
>
> Yep, definitely have it.
>
> =================
>
>
>
> The worm can infect any species of mammal that consumes its encysted
larval
> stages. When an animal eats meat that contains infective Trichinella
cysts,
> the acid in the stomach dissolves the hard covering of the cyst and
releases
> the worms. The worms pass into the small intestine and, in 1-2 days,
become
> mature. After mating, adult females produce larvae, which break through
the
> intestinal wall and travel through the lymphatic system to the circulatory
> system to find a suitable cell. Larvae can penetrate any cell, but can
only
> survive in skeletal muscle. Within a muscle cell, the worms curl up and
> direct the cells functioning much as a virus does. The cell is now called
a
> nurse cell. Soon, a net of blood vessels surround the nurse cell,
providing
> added nutrition for the larva inside.
>
>
>
>
> --
> TFM®
> Zephyrhills (spreading the truth and other infectuous diseases) Florida
>
> Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
>
My god...I'm gonna have to stop eatin' those feral hogs.
I'm sure gonna miss 'em.