“Let’s stop harvesting brains.”

[unpossibles]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087&em&en=3ddfd008c331e1ef&ex=1202446800

YUM!

And the disease that confronted doctors at the Austin Medical Center here last fall was strange indeed. Three patients had the same highly unusual set of symptoms: fatigue, pain, weakness, numbness and tingling in the legs and feet.
...
But why should exposure to hog brains cause illness? And why now, when the compressed air system had been in use in Minnesota since 1998?

At first, health officials thought perhaps the pigs had some new infection that was being transmitted to people by the brain tissue. Sometimes, infections can ignite an immune response in humans that flares out of control, like the condition in the workers. But so far, scores of tests for viruses, bacteria and parasites have found no signs of infection.

As a result, Dr. Lynfield said the investigators had begun leaning toward a seemingly bizarre theory: that exposure to the hog brain itself might have touched off an intense reaction by the immune system, something akin to a giant, out-of-control allergic reaction. Some people might be more susceptible than others, perhaps because of their genetic makeup or their past exposures to animal tissue. The aerosolized brain matter might have been inhaled or swallowed, or might have entered through the eyes, the mucous membranes of the nose or mouth, or breaks in the skin.
...

[flvegan]

1. No protection from "swallowing or inhaling the mist of brain tissue".

Now, I'm no expert, but doesn't it seem like ingesting raw pig brain might be a bad idea?

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Ya think?

But hey, there's no regulation saying we can't make our workers inhale pig brains, is there?
Ugh.

[flvegan]

4. Well, as "Fast Food Nation" taught us

working in a high-capacity slaughterhouse/meatpacking plant ain't exactly what one might call "safe". The employers don't exactly care about their workers any more than they do the animals getting rendered.

[Cabcere]

6. Very true.

I read that book freshman year of college for a sociology class, and was very disturbed...there is some horrible stuff going on there. :scared:

[Gormy Cuss]

10. It's "The Jungle" all over again.

A hundred years later and it's SSDD for industrial ag.

[mainegreen]

5. Hell no! America is ON BOARD!

:D

[flvegan]

8. Renuzit do's it.

[FloridaJudy]

3. Pig heads, pig heads

Roly poly pig heads.
We love pig heads!
Eat them up, yum!




:hide: Too early an exposure to Dr. Demento, I fear

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. "Aerosolized brain matter."

A dab of that on the neck and decolletage drives men wild. If by wild you mean fatigue, pain, weakness, numbness and tingling in the legs and feet.

[unpossibles]

9. I prefer the new pump bottle to the aerosol

but that's just me.