Is Pig-Brain 'Mist' Linked To Mystery Ailment?

New Scientist ^ | 2-9-2008

[Rb ver. 2.0]

“Pig Brain Mist”

Band name!

[SatinDoll]

I don’t know if there is a connection between pork and MS. Somehow I think it a bit of a stretch.

[Rurudyne]

Ralph!!!, the patron saint of toilets, wouldn’t eat that.

[pillut48]

You're chardin' right, my FRiend!! Mark my words!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Haven’t seen it.

Ya know, this story reminds me of reading many years ago about a possible connection between simian brain matter and the Aids Virus. Also, about many world religions offense to consuming brain matter. Perhaps a warning from God that had best obeyed.

[grey_whiskers]

["...using compressed air to blast brain tissue from severed pig heads..."]

Not a job I'd apply for.

From the New York Slimes:

Quality Pork is the second biggest employer, with 1,300 employees. Most work eight-hour shifts along a conveyor belt — a disassembly line, basically — carving up a specific part of each carcass. Pay for these line jobs starts at about $11 to $12 an hour. The work is grueling, but the plant is exceptionally clean and the benefits are good, said Richard Morgan, president of the union local. Many of the workers are Hispanic immigrants. Quality Pork’s owner does not allow reporters to enter the plant.

I think these are some of those famous "jobs which Americans won't do"...

Cheers!

[weegee]

Give it to Mikey. He’ll eat it. He’ll try anything.

[jazusamo]

I agree, I thought the same thing when I read it.

[RDTF]

sounds like the roots of a good future weapon against radical islam!

[Vince Ferrer]

Maybe there are some jobs most Americans don't want to do.

[Cacique]

bump for later

[Ghengis]

The photo on that can brought back ancient memories. Two of the first meals we had after butchering hogs were the liver and the brains. Liver is no problem for me. Brains? Yuck!!!!!

[31R1O]

Great album! I can listen to it from beginning to end without skipping a track!

[lastchance]

“WORKERS at two pork-processing plants in the US have developed a mysterious nervous ailment after using compressed air to blast brain tissue from severed pig heads. The end product is a pink food paste that is canned and exported, but the process also generates an aerosol of brain matter that workers may inhale.”

I bet the ole highschool guidance counselor doesn’t bring up this career path very often. And one must also ask, exported, where, to whom, why, what else is served with brain food paste? Couldn’t we just smear the stuff about as a kind of anti islamofascists wonder paste?

[Mr. Brightside]

lol

Beat me to it.

[ken21]

i read that last week in the nyt.

disgusting.

[Hot Tabasco]

Pig + brains is not recommended reading before Sunday morning breakfast

[Nailbiter]

story i was speaking about last week

[mewzilla]

Related 2003 link....

Illegal Immigration Coming to Small Town America

Three guesses why no-one was on the horn to OSHA before this. Yeah, let's hear it for illegal immigration.

[SeeSalt]

I don’t know if there is a connection between pork and MS.

It may be. MS can be reproduced experimentally in rats, by injecting sc a mixture of MBP(Myelinic Basic Protein) with some fats from tuberculosis bacterium.MBP comes from the brain. After ~ 10 days from injection, the rats develop an acute encephalomyelopathy( similar to that of MS) and at this moment it is the model FDA approved for MS drug testing.By injecting foreign MBP the rats respond by attacking with Cytotoxic lymphocytes against self MBP in brain. It is a immune response.The induced MS in rats is reversible in 3-4 weeks. It is possible that aerosols loaded with pork brain(containing MBP)triggered an immune response. It is a possibility that should be explored.