Another very good reason to find a hide glue substitute....

[John Ross]

I think you have a better chance of winning the Snowball, if you buy a 
ticket, than getting mad cow from hide glue.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:05 PM
Subject: Another very good reason to find a hide glue substitute....


>I met with Howard Lyman, the "Mad Cowboy", last night.
> He gave an excellent talk at the University on prion
> diseases, AKA "Mad Cow Disease", "Creutzfield-Jacob",
> "Scrapie", etc.
>     He cited Yale studies showing that about 18% of
> "Alzheimer's" in the U.S. is actually "Mad Cow" in
> humans, which is transferable from any species to any
> species via various types of contact, citing  an
> Englishwoman, a lifelong vegetarian, who even died of
> it after sprinkling her roses with bone-meal dust and
> getting the powder in her eyes!  Films of humans dying
> of  "Mad Cow" were shown. Very shocking.
>    "Hide Glue" is made of similar slaughterhouse
> leavings. Dumping it into a  jar kicks up dust, which
> could infect you. The U.S. government, initially
> banning feeding animal remnants back to "livestock"
> after Mad Cow was discovered here, has, apparently,
> backed off due to pressure from the cattle industry.
>     Research "Mad Cowboy" or "Howard Lyman" for more
> info.
>     Does anyone know of a  good substitute for hide
> glue: dries hard, can be softened with heat/moisture
> later to disassemble parts, and can be cleaned off
> from old joints witout too much grief, for new gluing
> ?
>     Thump
>
>
>
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