Posted on 01/13/2012 2:24:02 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
CAIRO — Officials at Cairo's international airport confiscated 420 pounds of frozen cow brains Friday from three Sudanese travelers who planned to sell them to Egyptian restaurants, authorities said.
An airport official said it was the fourth time this week that customs officers there had foiled an attempt to smuggle cow brains into the country, reflecting the growth of a moneymaking scheme made possible by some realities of international supply and demand: Cow brains are cheap in Sudan, and Egyptians like to eat them.
A pound of raw cow brains bought in Sudan for less than a dollar can be resold in Egypt for six times as much, airport officials said. That means Friday's haul could have earned the men more than $1,500.
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420 pounds of cow brains seized at Cairo airport
“Congress on fact finding mission.”
Mad Cow Disease, that explains everything
It makes sense that Islam needs brains...
Rosie and Rosanne traveled to Cairo?
I haven’t heard much of Mad Cow disease for a long time. I remember when all cows were going to be infected and humans would not be eating beef anymore.
Wow, that must be almost the entire annual intellectual output of Sudan. No wonder they're pissed.
there are laws controlling the sale of cow brains and cow spinal tissue in the US.
Most of these deal with lame cows and the use of these byproducts in animal feeds.
Michelle, is that you?
We used to sell halves and quarters of beef to customers who told the butcher how they wanted the meat packaged, and also, if they wanted any extras.
Some Hispanic customers were thrilled to be able to buy whole cow heads for some kind of special BBQ.
This was years ago before the mad cow stuff.
Our family recently bought a half or quarter cow and requested extras (livers). The livers make great pate (yum yum!) Wouldn’t dream of eating the brains though. Just nasty.
Mad cow hasn’t gone away. People in the UK are still dying from it.
Here’s a link to the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research & Surveillance Unit and the statistics since 1990 in the UK. The numbers may be gradually increasing but not exploding like some of the doomsayers were claimed would happen. The key is whether the people that died had the regular or varient form. The varient form is acknowledged to be related to mad cow.
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/figures.htm
From the CDC:
“Since 1996, evidence has been increasing for a causal relationship between ongoing outbreaks in Europe of a disease in cattle, called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or ‘mad cow’ disease), and vCJD. There is now strong scientific evidence that the agent responsible for the outbreak of prion disease in cows, BSE, is the same agent responsible for the outbreak of vCJD in humans. Both disorders are invariably fatal brain diseases with unusually long incubation periods measured in years, and are caused by an unconventional transmissible agent.”
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/index.htm
You've never had Barbacoa? It's incredible. Here in Texas they sell it
by the pound at a fast Mex called Two Pesos.
So.... there are some brains in Egypt...
Now thats news...
Good thing they weren’t lawyer brains.
Do you know how many lawyers yo have to kill just to get one ounce of brains?
Lol. I assume you mean the liberal ambulance chasing type...
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