New MAD COW threat - COW HEADS!!!!

Elkhorn Valley Packing LLC, in Kansas, is recalling over 400,000 pounds of frozen beef which have the threat of infecting consumers with the dreaded and fatal "mad cow disease." In fact, what's causing the fear is a shipment of cattle heads!

In the first place, who eats a cow's head? I thought we were confining ourselves to their rumps and guts for delicate dining! But apparently someone is eating a lot of cow heads. The problem comes in when folks try to eat not only the head proper (or improper, I guess) but when they also try to chow down on the offending cow's TONSILS! ('scuse me while I gag just a little bit). Seems the tonsils, which are disease barriers in us as well as cows, grab and contain dangerous diseases, such as BSE (that's Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, which is a chronic, degenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system of cattle and carnivores who feast on cow flesh). So, the USDA is making them recall the cow heads in question.

So, what is the bottom line here? About the only sure way to avoid a slow, agonizing, expensive death by mad cow disease is to DON'T EAT MEAT! Good grief! how hard is this? Not only will eating cows' heads (and rumps and guts) give you this horrendous disease, but it is nutritionally damaging to your body. (see articles at the bottom of this blog)

If you absolutely MUST eat a dead cow (or pig or chicken, etc), you should have the package of "beef" examined by a reputable representative of the Centers for Disease Control. Just take or mail the flesh to the nearest office of the CDC and in a few months you'll know whether or not it will kill you sooner or later!

(Matthew 10:29)