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To: jttmab who wrote (24282)	12/30/2003 7:01:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

How about oxtail stew? I wasn't sure, so I did a bit of Googling on the issue. I found this to be an interesting comment delivered in the UK House of Lords: "I raise one separate issue. It is a small but important point of detail. I declare an interest as it affects my culinary wishes. I spoke to a Mr. John Brewster of Smithfield Market, one of the senior market people, who is very puzzled as to why oxtail has been included in the regulations. As all noble Lords will know, oxtail is an extension of the base of the spine but it begins way beyond the point where the spinal cord ceases. Therefore, there is no chance of there being dorsal root ganglia in the tail. Paradoxically, too, the centre of the oxtail bone does not consist of marrow but of a form of light gristle. So there is no marrow in the oxtail either. We have a situation therefore in which the regulations ban a perfectly palatable aspect of the beef carcass from the market when there is no possibility of there being any infected material in it." Source: parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk * Also from the UK: "A circular from the Food Standards Agency has called for comments on proposals to implement in UK law the European Commissions Decision to prohibit the use of any cattle, sheep or goat bones in the manufacture of mechanically recovered meat (MRM).17 Oxtail would be exempt and may continue to be used for food." Source: 66.102.7.104 * So, oxtail soup seems to be accepted by the Establishment and the regulatory agencies, but still gets a bad rap in the organic community. *** If they were start slaughtering cattle by the millions, do you think the public would feel positive about the safety of the food supply? I can see no scenario whereby slaughtering of that number of cattle would ever be mandated. The problem with downer cattle is limited to about 130,000 animals in 2002 and a similar number this year. Most beef cattle are sent to the abattoir before they reach 24 months of age. Therefore, the likelihood of BSE related problems is really not a big issue among beef breeds. It's in the dairy herds that the possibility of much more severe BSE infectivity is present.