Joe Cilinceon > wrote:
>It was my understanding from what I have read about mad cow disease is you
>don't tend to get it from mussel meats but from eating the organs such as
>kidneys, liver, brain, tongue etc. and I very well could be wrong on this.

When a cow is butchered, it's cut into sides by sawing
vertically through the spine, spreading spinal tissue
all through the cut surface.

And there are nerves throughout any flesh.

I know they've made rules keeping those tissues out of
"meat byproduct" products, but I'm not sure they
made a rule against sawing through them to split
a carcass.

--Blair