Homemade Jerky and Mad Cow

“as my first batch of homemade ground sirloin jerky dehydrates, does anyone know if it is possible for mad cow disease to survive in dehydrated meat?”

“i thought that the virus was only contracted by consuming the brain tissue of infected animals.

considering all the other things you can find in uncooked meat, mad cow is the least of your worries”

“cooking does not get rid of the mad cow prions.

Its not a bacterial infection - its a prion, or in other words its a protein gone wild.”

“oh, and if it'll make you feel better, NONE of the cows in North America, three in Canada and the one or two in the US that had BSE or mad cow were ever destined for the human food chain.

they were all either dairy cattle or breeder cows, all way past the age where they were useful for human food. They were killed either on the farm where they succumbed to the disease or at the "rendering" plant (the place where things unfit for human consumption go).

North America has the safest food supply in the world. All the people that have contracted BSE lived in England.”