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First, the news:

Wild pigs eyed in tainted spinach probe

By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press WriterFri Oct 27, 10:34 AM ET

After a month without any reports of illness from tainted spinach, health officials say the deadly outbreak of bacteria that killed three people and sickened more than 200 others nationally appears to be over.

Investigators also have linked the fatal strain of E. coli to wild pigs that may have spread the bacteria by trampling fences surrounding a spinach field in California.

"All evidence points to this outbreak having concluded," Dr. Kevin Reilly of the California Department of Health Services said Thursday. No one has become ill from eating contaminated spinach since Sept. 25.

Samples taken from a wild pig, as well as from stream water and cattle on the ranch, have tested positive for the same strain of E. coli implicated in the outbreak, Reilly said in a conference call with reporters.

Still, investigators continue to look at three other ranches in the areas in seeking the source of the contaminated fresh spinach.

"We are not saying this is the source at this point," Reilly said of the ranch.

The outbreak sickened 204 people in 26 states and one Canadian province, he said.

Wild pigs are one "real clear vehicle" that could explain how E. coli spread from cattle on the ranch to the spinach field less than a mile away, Reilly said. The pigs could have tracked the bacteria into the field or spread it through their droppings, he said.

Investigators also are looking at runoff, flooding, irrigation water, fertilizer and other wildlife, including deer, as possible sources.

Investigators first recovered the same strain of bacteria earlier this month from three cattle manure specimens collected on the ranch. On Thursday, Reilly said the strain had been isolated from six other samples collected on the ranch, including from cattle.

The finds mark the first time that investigators have identified a possible source for any of the multiple E. coli outbreaks linked to the heavily agricultural area.

Reilly refused to give a location for the ranch, other than to say it's in a valley in the area of San Benito and Monterey counties.

Investigators have taken roughly 750 samples from the four ranches. They've found generic E. coli on all four ranches — the bug is commonly found in cattle — but turned up the particular strain involved in the outbreak on only one.

"We have no evidence to suggest people should not be eating spinach from other places — except from these four ranches," said Jack Guzewich of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.


And now the recipe!

Wild Pig Eye and Tainted Spinach Salad:

INGREDIENTS:

* 2 tablespoons bacon dripping
* 4 wild pig eyes, diced
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1 small onion, minced
* 1 cup water
* 1/2 teaspoon powdered mustard
* 2 tablespoons vinegar
* 16 ounces tainted spinach, chopped
* salt and pepper to taste

PREPARATION:
Melt bacon drippings. Stir in flour, onion, and diced pig eyes. Gradually stir in water, mustard, and vinegar. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and thickened. Pour hot dressing over spinach. Toss to mix well; season to taste.
 
Josh, you don't know how many times I read one of your zany ideas and think; I wish I'd thought of that.

They'll never get rid of the wild pigs in California. I wonder if there's even a season in the area of the spinach fields?

munk
 
munk said:
I wonder if there's even a season in the area of the spinach fields?

munk
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Around here, if you're a farmer and you've got wild animals damaging you're crops, they're fair game year 'round, no limit. You might not even need a license.

I don't think that applies to deer eating hostas in a subdivision.
 
Don't worry about your recipe. It seems like a winner.

It seems that blaming a wild animal, and not the grower and shippers, those responsible for the deaths will not have to answer for their crimes of negligence. The article failed to mention what I've been hearing about lack of sanitiation in the fields and the common practice of workers defecating in the fields. Either way somebody is not insuring that our food supply is safe. Way to go USDA!
 
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I think you might get sick if you used the wild pigs brown eyes...just don't want anyone to get sick.
 
Shelter bans black cat adoptions during Halloween
POSTED: 8:30 p.m. EDT, October 28, 2006
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- No black cat will cross your path this Halloween, not if a northern Idaho animal shelter can help it.

Like many shelters around the country, the Kootenai Humane Society in Coeur d'Alene is prohibiting black cat adoptions from now to November 2, fearing the animals could be mistreated in Halloween pranks -- or worse, sacrificed in some satanic ritual.

The risk may be remote, said the shelter's executive director, Phil Morgan.

"It's kind of an urban legend. But in the humane industry it's pretty typical that shelters don't do adoptions of black cats or white bunnies because of the whole satanic sacrificial thing," Morgan said. "If we prevent one animal from getting hurt, then it serves its purpose."

Out of 97 cats at the shelter, 28 are black, Morgan said.

However, some animal experts say the practice does more to hurt animals than protect them.

"Black cats already suffer a stigma because of their color," said Gail Buchwald, vice president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter in New York City. "Why penalize them any more by limiting the times when they can be adopted?"

Black cats tend to be adopted less often than other felines, Buchwald said.

"Behaviorally, there's no difference from the color of the cat. It's tied into this whole mythology about the animal -- don't let it cross your path or some foreboding or foreshadowing of evil -- and that's an outdated superstition," she said.

It's not clear how many shelters still seasonally ban black cat adoptions, said Kim Intino, director of animal sheltering issues for the Humane Society of the United States, but the trend seems to be fading -- along with the once-common bans on bunny adoptions around Easter or puppy adoptions as Christmas gifts.

"If there were people out there performing rituals with animals, then I would think that Halloween would be a time for that, but a good adoption process would tend to weed that out," Intino said. "There's going to be incidents of weird abuse that happen no matter what. The remedy is not banning black cat adoptions."

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

RECIPE:

Halloween Black Cat Cupcakes

Mix in bowl:

2 lbs coursely chopped black cat (shelter or wild caught)
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup vegatable oil.

ladle into cat food dishes and bake cupcakes at 350 for 1 hour or until fur in singed off of any exposed cat parts.

Serve with your favorite Halloween punch....or a saucer of milk.
 
Wow Rob . As a child I often heard of not letting a black cat cross your path .
It never bothered me . I have heard of cats tails being used for certain doings.
there is an abundance of cats here . Some people see it as a plague . I just see nature . There were incidents of abuse and mass killings . I never heard of black cats being singled out .

Anyway enough of a thread hijack . I,ll see if I can come up with a good headline to make a recipe out of .
 
DOG BITES MAN

Hardly front page news . Today however a new twist to the age old story has given it new life .

MAN BITES DOG .

Alfred Brimley of 22 Stuckpig road was accosted by a great hound this Wednesday last . Instead of backing down or cowering Mr. Brimley rose to the occasion by leaping to the attack . Taking hold of the beast's ear Mr. Brimley tore it to ribbons with his incisors .

Asked if a rabies test was wanted the dog declined .

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Man bites into dog sandwich .

Wally wangclanger of 37 pierceporker drive has come up with a way to ease his hunger and eradicate the stray dog population in his city . He was quoted as saying . "Really it is no different than going down to the butchers for a pound of hamburger ."

Asked for the recipe he simply stated " that he was being hounded by a local cookbook club to give them the right to the recipe". Wally barked out he was tired of being dogged by reporters and that his wife was calling for her slippers .
 
Back from the dead!

The news:

Congo rebels said to kill, eat gorillas

By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press WriterWed Jan 17, 7:42 PM ET

Rebels in eastern Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, conservationists said Wednesday, warning they fear more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region.

Only about 700 mountain gorillas remain in the world, 380 of them spread across a range of volcanic mountains straddling the borders of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda in Central Africa.

One dismembered gorilla corpse was found Tuesday in a pit latrine in Congo's Virunga National Park, a few hundred yards from a park patrol post that was abandoned because of rebel attacks, according to the London-based Africa Conservation Fund. Another was killed in the same area on Jan. 5, said the group, which based its report on conservationists in the field.

The group blamed rebels loyal to a local warlord, Laurent Nkunda, for the latest killing. Nkunda is a renegade soldier who commands thousands of fighters in the vast country's east who have in recent years assaulted cities and clashed sporadically with government forces.

Silverbacks are older adult males and usually group leaders, though some are loners.

Paulin Ngobobo, a senior park warden, wrote an Internet blog about finding the latest remains.

"We've learned a lot: the gorilla had in fact been eaten for meat. His name was Karema, another solitary silverback that had been born into a habituated group — meaning that he had grown to trust humans enough to let them come to within touching distance," Ngobobo wrote.

"We learned that the remaining gorillas are extremely vulnerable — the rebels are after the meat, and it's not difficult for them to find and kill the few gorillas that remain."

Ngobobo said the first gorilla reported killed had been shot by rebels and eaten.

"A local farmer was ordered to help the rebels collect the meat of the gorilla," Ngobobo said. "He told them that the meat was dangerous to eat, and immediately informed us."

Robert Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who accompanied Ngobobo, said: "We need to impress on Nkunda and his men that it is inexcusable to destroy national and world heritage of such critical importance. ... Now that we know that the slaughtered gorilla was eaten, the gorillas habituated for tourism are at extreme risk — and we are worried that more have been killed already."

The last remaining hippo populations in Congo are in Virunga and are also on the verge of being wiped out. Conservationists have blamed rebels and militias for slaughtering them, and say more than 400 were killed last year, mostly for food. Only 900 hippos remain, a huge drop from the 22,000 reported there in 1998.

Virunga park has been ravaged by poachers and deforestation for more than a decade. The 1994 Rwandan genocide saw millions of refugees spill into Congo, marking the beginning of an era of unrest, lawlessness and clashes between militias and rebel groups.

Mineral-rich Congo, which held its first democratic elections in more than four decades last year, is struggling to recover from a 1998-2002 war that drew in the armies of more than half a dozen African nations.

The job of protecting the country's parks falls on local rangers, and the risks are high. In Virunga alone, some 97 rangers have died on duty since 1996, the Africa Conservation Fund said.

On his blog, Ngobobo also described being shot at and beaten by the military, who he and other rangers were trying to persuade to stop cutting down the forest.

Richard Leakey, a conservationist credited with helping end the slaughter of elephants in Kenya during the 1980s, said: "The survival of these last remaining mountain gorillas should be one of humanity's greatest priorities. Their future lies with a small number of very brave rangers risking their lives with very little support from the outside world."


And the recipe: (sorry if this is in poor taste)

Senegalese Gorilla Soup

Serves 6

Ingredients:
1 large onion, diced
1/4 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 cup curry
1 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 1/2 tsp ground coriander
1 46 oz. can gorilla broth*
1 16 oz. can tomato puree
1 16 oz. can crushed plum tomatoes
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1 lb. gorilla meat, cubed and cooked
1/2 cup scallions, chopped thinly
1 cup chopped peanuts and cilantro (mixed)

Instructions:
1. Cook onion in olive oil until soft and translucent. Add garlic and cook two minutes. Add curry powder, cayenne pepper and coriander and sautee for an additional two minutes. Add olive oil if it becomes dry.

2. Add gorilla broth and scrape bottom very well with wooden spoon. Add tomato puree, crushed plum tomatoes, salt and pepper. Simmer for 30 minutes. Stir often and scrape bottom every few minutes. Do not boil.

3. Combine peanut butter and 1/2 of soup in blender or food processor and puree, adding small quantities of broth as necessary if too thick. When smooth, add puree to remaining soup and stir well. If soup seems thick, add broth to taste.

4. Drain gorilla meat and add to soup. Add scallions to soup, cook 5 more minutes and serve.

5. Sprinkle chopped peanuts and cilantro for garnish.

*chicken broth may be substituted if gorilla broth is unavailable
 
EVERYTHING tastes like chicken.
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Seriously, gorillas are large primates, humans are large primates, the choice for a substitute is obvious.
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kronckew said:
EVERYTHING tastes like chicken.

Seriously, gorillas are large primates, humans are large primates, the choice for a substitute is obvious.
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According to the word of cannibals, humans taste more
like pork than beef. In fact, some tribe's nickname for
human meat is "long pork".

John

"It takes all sorts of critters to make Famer Vincent's fritters"
:D
 
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