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To: skinowski who wrote (123021)	1/11/2004 11:57:40 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi shinowski; My guess on the NJ possible mad cow case is that it is a chance occurrence. The way that cows get divided up and blended in our meat factories would suggest that it would be unlikely for so many people to get ill from stuff that was sent to only one restaurant. To put this into perspective, the total number of mad cows found in Britain was 177,514 between '85 and '00. The total number of people in Britain that got vCJD is about 100: rense.com cnn.com In other words, it takes somewhere around a thousand mad cows to make one human mad. I suspect that it's not possible for one racetrack to make that many people sick with vCJD, even under the worst assumptions. So my prediction is that they pooh-pooh this story before too long goes by. Of course, it could also be the nefarious beef producers who get the cases attributed to chance. Which all goes to show that in the final analysis, on most things in life, as with the WMDs in Iraq [tie in to Foreign Affairs], you get to believe whatever the hell you want to believe. -- Carl