Would steak from a mad cow taste different then a steak from normal cow?

[GingerSnaps]

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[tk2kewl]

1. do mad cows have mad skills?

[fugue]

2. I'm told it wouldn't

But of course, that's by the same government experts that denied the problem for so long.

[yardwork]

3. No.

Mad Cow disease is caused by a protein called a prion. It's not a bacteria or any living organism. It's a protein that replicates itself like a crystal. If it gets into the neurological system of another animal, it starts to replicate in that animal's brain and spinal cord.

You can't tell by looking, smelling, or tasting meat whether or not it has these prions in it.

[warrens]

9. Deformed prions

Regular prions are normal. The deformed ones cause the problems.

[sir_captain]

12. That's wrong

a prion by definition is a protein that is an infectious agent.

[MallRat]

4. Tastes just like regular beef, only wackier.

WOO-HOO!!!

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[mcscajun]

5. And Steaks aren't really the issue...

Steak is the safest beef you can eat...boneless roasts are pretty safe, too. It's ground beef and cuts near the spinal cord of the animal you need to worry about.

Evidence from the British cases suggests that people most likely get mad cow disease by eating processed meat, such as hamburger, baby food or sausages, containing brain or spinal cord material from infected cows.

And especially avoid that pre-ground frozen burger...you don't know WHAT the hell has been ground into that...and that seems to be where most of the non-"Mad Cow" recalls come from, anyway...ya' know...E-coli and such.

[PDittie]

6. There can be meat from as many as 1,000 different animals

in a ground beef patty from McDonald's.

That little statistic comes from the documentary "Supersize Me".

[sir_captain]

13. Keep in mind

that there is no actual evidence either way about whether eating mad cow prions actually causes jakob-creutzfeldt disease in humans. statistically speaking, the number of mad cow cases has been way too low to establish any real correlation.

[Padraig18]

7. No.

It has no effect on how the meat tastes.

[warrens]

8. No

Although if you get a bad cut of meat that tastes liverish, it means it was cut from right near the spinal column and is therefore much higher risk that, say, the brisket.

[GingerSnaps]

10. Ewwww

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[cmf]

11. It would taste slightly nutty

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