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Skriven 2008-02-13 14:40:12 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 2350 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [2]
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Hi Ruth!

>> > If he really enjoys it, there's no question. If I'm not quite sure
>> he > likes it enough to keep, I'll ask. Most of the time, since I know
>> his > likes/dislikes, it's a keeper as nothing he dislikes will be in
>> the new > dish.

>> Sounds about like here :)

> I'm glad Steve is willing to try new things; it's fun really breaking
> out of the "same old, same old" mode every so often. (G)

Yep.. then once in a while I make something I haven't made in ages, like
jambalaya and we both think, wow, why haven't I made this in so long ? (g).


>>> Oh yuck, that's nasty... I just read an article in the NYTimes about a
>>> pork processing plant in Minnestota this Sunday... it's horrid.  So
>>> their farms stink to high heaven, and some of their processing plants
>>> give people strange diseases... eek. I don't eat pork that often, and

>> > Sounds almost like Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" 100 years later.

>> Funny

> Can you tell I like to read? (G)

Hehe.. figured :)

>> Yes :(  The symptoms these people were getting were very very much
>> like the ones that person with MS gets (but more than even that).  The
>> scientists in charge or doctors or whatever finally traced the
>> problems down to  the method used to take out the pigs' brain (it's
>> not used all over the country) and they believe it was caused by brain
>> matter spraying on the workers..

> Mad pig disease?

At this point, as far as they knew, no one had ever had problems from eating
the pork .. only people who worked at the plant were affected, and not al of
them.... ("as far as they knew" eek).

>That was some sharp medical sleuthing.

Yes.. but not before so many were made so very ill...  They were able to track
things down by the number of people who became ill that were closest to the
Brain-blowers (sounds sick, doesn't it).. The spray from that operation was
going out all over the closest workers to the brain blowers, even those who
weren't actually doing the "brain-blowing".. IIRC, they were using high-powered
air hoses to blow the brains out..  What they are still not sure of, is why
this is happening.. is that some people are more sensitive to the pig brain
matter (they're immune systems attack), or an infection, etc... and why.. It
was a great article and a little scarey.

I noticed it dissapeared from the NYTimes search after I read it in the Health
section, but you can still find it with Google with 'pork processing
Minnesota':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times
%20Topics/Subjects/M/Meat&oref=slogin

You'd need to sign up for a NYTimes account but it's relatively painless to do
that if you haven't done so.

>> > tho, we've driven by huge beef lots in TX & NM more often but he's
>> not > given up beef. Seriously, we have cut way down on our meat
>> consumption > and most of it is poultry now.

>> Since we've gone the organic route or whatever you want to call it,
>> we've been eating more meat than we were before.  But I don't feel bad
>> doing it, since I know these animals weren't fed a diet of corn
>> products when they were born to eat grass... and I don't worry about
>> mad cow as much either.  Just because a farmer doesn't industrialize
>> his farming methods, though, doesn't mean you can count on that I
>> suppose.  But I am.

> Yes, and we should probably go the same route for our eatingtoo.

I figure it's something (g).. and I know I have allergies to corn or at the
very least can't digest it anyway...

>>> permits, and I'll be giving her my copy to read.. She's got a great
>>> book she showed me when we were there last that a nurse in the health
>>> department gave her about children's allergies to food and resulting
>>> behavior (like she doesn't know (grin))

>> > Yes but having another source of information is always handy. That
>> way > if she encounters a doctor who's not quite sure so let's
>> try......... I > had that happen to me with one in HI and my asthma.
>> He learned fast. > (G)

>> Yes, you're right!  and glad he learned fast for you :)

> Not only me but his other patients.  He's now a better doctor for that
> experience. It showed in how he treated me the rest of the time he was
> my doctor.

Yes, I bet.. Along those lines, I felt especially bad when my first neurologist
retired after I had trained him so well (vbg).  I figured I'd have to break a
new one in when I went back to NYHospital/Presbyterian Med. Center in
Manhatten.. but the new guy was just as sharp as my old doctor, luckily for me
:)


Take care,
Janis

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