A cat which disappeared from its home in Cornwall turned up safe and well – on the set of Question Time. Tango, a tom, had crept into Treviglas Community College’s hall in Newquay where BBC1’s political discussion programme was being filmed last week. He padded out from under a table where David Dimbleby was chairing political discussions with a panel of guests. The first owner Jackie Ellery knew of his surprise appearance was when a friend rang to say she had spotted him.
Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish?
Three U.S. scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease — the human form of “mad cow disease” — from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows.
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In the latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Dr. Robert P. Friedland, a neurologist at University of Louisville in Kentucky and colleagues suggest that farmed fish fed contaminated cow parts could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
The scientists want government regulators to ban feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish until the safety of this common practice can be confirmed.
Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish?
The Grumpy Vegan wants to know when agribusiness is going to be held to account for its contribution to human morbidity and mortality similarly to the tobacco industry.
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News from the Allotment
Been very remiss in providing update on the allotment. So far, we’ve had strawberries, rhubarb, potatoes and delicious broad beans. Stuff is still growing. But the hot, dry weather has meant that it’s necessary to keep watering. The weather is supposed to break soon, however. Here are the runner beans beginning to flower. A damson and two apples trees were planted increasing our orchard which we started last year with two apple and two pear trees.
Gulls, Again
Sadly, one hasn’t made it as there are now only three. In two weeks, they’ve grown to the point where they now run up and down flapping their wings and hover momentarily in the air.
Vegan LA Restaurant Study
The Grumpy Vegan’s initial reaction to this study was “Wow!” This was quickly followed by “Haven’t these people gotten anything better to do?” Regardless, an interesting exercise if the only conclusion is that there isn’t any smoking tofu and better to avoid mock meat dishes in Asian-style vegan restaurants. If anyone had asked me I would’ve said avoid mock meat dishes and Chinese et al establishments anyway. Oh well. But always the ever-sensible Erik Marcus had a more considered take.
