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Goomba38 > wrote:

> Mark Thorson wrote:
> > Becca wrote:
> >> In the supermarket, I noticed beef bacon. It looks like bacon,
> >> but it comes from beef. Has anybody tried this?
> >> I wonder what you would use it for.
> >
> > It's not bad, but not as good as genuine bacon.
> > Because of the Mad Cow Disease epidemic in the
> > U.S., I would not eat it.
>
> So you've given up beef altogether?
> And exactly how much of an epidemic is Mad Cow in the US..cause I sure
> haven't heard about it being a problem..?

My daughter likes to donate blood. After she went to London for a
semester, they wouldn't take her blood here in the US. After a few
years, now they are taking it again.