Peter Jennings tonight reported that the government is

[Hoping4Change]

increasing Mad Cow prevention strategies by outlawing certain parts in cosmetics and one other place. I am aware of the debate about dangerous animal parts in cosmetics because I have followed this story. However I was surprised that the gov't has conceded this is a risk. You'd think this story deserves more than a half minute mention.

[FloridaPat]

1. Maybe this explains why half the people in this country think Bush

is doing a good job!

That is strange the government is concerned with cosmetics. That must mean it's bigger then we think it is.

[Hoping4Change]

2. Many people have considered cosmetics to be at risk

because the prions which cause Mad Cow can't be destroyed through heat. Prions could potentially wind up in cosemtics since the animal parts not fit for human consumption ie the brain and spinal cord end up in rendering plants and the rendered byproducts are a major component in all cosmetics.

[Heddi]

4. I swear---the absolute LAST time I wore any cosmetics

was about...12 years ago. I worked at a fast food place and when we threw out the grease from the fryers, we had to carry it outside and dump it in this nasty ass smelly grease container by the dumpster.

Every week or so a big truck would come and hook up a tube to the grease trap and suck out all the grease.

Every week they'd do this. And it wasn't just our little fast food place---alllll the fast food places have grease traps.

So one day I asked someone what they do with that grease. ANd they said they do various things with it, but mostly it's sold to makeup factories and is used in lipstick and other oil-based products

V-O-M-I-T

I have worn no makeup since then. ANd that was when I was 16 years old!

[jilln]

6. not all cosmetics use animal products

There are several brands that use no animal products at all.

I didn't see that on the news ... did they actually just single out cosmetics? What about medicines???

[Hoping4Change]

7. Cosmetics and dietary supplements.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1088769670147420.xml


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040709_1664.html

[jilln]

9. Oh. Gotta leave huge pharmaceutical companies alone, I guess.

[Parrcrow]

3. I always suspected that crazy freeper women...

were smearing, otherwize unusable, cow parts on their faces.:+

[madinmaryland]

5. Isn't the same crap in fast food burgers?

:puke:

[Hoping4Change]

8. Well slaughter houses are supposed to discard spinal cords

and brains whether they accomplish that is debateable given slaughter house practices carefully documented in MAD COW USA. The entire book can be downloaded free.

http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html#description