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Re: Euthanized pets being ground into pet food?

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From: Jennifer S. Mullen
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00
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Steve Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:

: This is total baloney.  Cannabilism is not uncommon in aboriginal 
: societies.  It's typically ritualistic.  Sometimes people eat their dead 
: relatives.  Sometimes they eat people from other tribes killed in 
: battle.  It happens even today.
: The "laughing disease" was peculiar because it showed up mainly in 
: women.  It turns out that the men got the choice pieces (isn't that 
: typical) while the women had to be content with things like viscera and 
: brains.  The brains are the tissue that carry the disease.

Interesting. Do you have a cite for this?

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From: jsm158@wileypost.cac.psu.edu (Jennifer S. Mullen)
Subject: Re: Euthanized pets being ground into pet food?
Date: 1996/05/22
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