Talk:Mad cow disease

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Someone put a suggestion for eating animal brains into the Brain article, that doesn’t relate to our mission either but I felt a warning was needed. Proxima Centauri (talk) 15:10, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

I think it could also be helpful in *ahem* fleshing out our coverage of vegetarianism, raw foodism, and other health-oriented food woo. P-Foster (talk) 15:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Possibly so, but the mother of all wikis has an article on it that is easily pointed at. I don't see this page as coming into a missional attitude any time soon; not a lot of opportunity for snark, nor any detectable woo surrounding the consumption of BRAINZZ... Dr. Benway may have seen a case or two of kuru, but even that is stretching the coverage of the mission, IMO. I'm easy, with no intention to go tromping around here tagging things; we can give it time... Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 15:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd say it's on mission - some US crank says that cattle mutalation is just the CIA trying to track BSE, and there are a few others who suggest that it's some kind of alien lifeform because the prions don't seem to require RNA/DNA for reproduction (UV does not inactivate prion transmission). — Unsigned, by: Random bloke / talk / contribs 21:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)--Random bloke (talk) 23:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC) sorry about that!

Must say that both the cattle mutilation and alien connexions are deep down in the noisy grass grassy noise on my US-centric radar. Others, maybe more so in the UK, will naturally have a different view. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Mad Cow Joke

The names vary but are all 'typical farm animal names'

Dulcibel the cow: Esmerelda I am worried about this mad cow disease.

Esmeralda: I am not worried - I'm a duck.

Question - which of them is quackers? 212.85.6.26 (talk) 15:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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