Pig Brains in the Mist
Making stories where there is no stories... MooPig Wisdom Dept:
This story is rolling off like a Fellini film. Every part of the pig, except the wings, is used for some utilitarian purpose. It turns out pig brains, raw pig brains, is handled in a way that endangers some of the workers at a Safety Award Recipient Pig Rendering Factory; "...the Quality Pork Processors plant on Wednesday won a workplace safety award from the American Meat Institute. It was one of 41 winners of the Award of Honor, the highest category among the institutes three levels of worker safety recognition awards. The industry group honored 121 plants in all."
Sounds like bad press for the QPP plant right after a day that should have been a celebration.
We turn it over to David Barnsmell...err.. Darnell...in the field--
"David? Are you having scrambled eggs and brains this morning?"
Dave Darnell is sending you a news article.-----------------------------------------
Personal message: "No, I'm enjoying a bowl of Menudo...
"I'm not sure what implications, both perceived and actual, this story might have
on Moo_Pig Wisdom but you should know about it. Also, don't you think your CFO,
public relations people, security heads, propaganda department, livestock
handlers, stall muckers and the president should also be in on the policy
discussion. This sounds pretty serious. Keep me informed, I have the company
pilots on standby in case we need to be somewhere....other than here, I mean.
You know, scramble that, roger that, bogeys and all. Well, maybe compressed air
has a place in the oilfield, but at the slaughter house?" (dpdassoc)
Illnesses rise among plant workers who handled pig brains - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_re_us/slaughterhouse_illness
Photo: Minnesotan escaped pig demon seen in St Louis after Wednesdays news...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 16, 6:18 PM ET
"MINNEAPOLIS - The number of mysterious neurological illnesses among workers who processed pig brains at pork plants in three states has grown to as many as 24, and other possible cases are being evaluated, researchers said Wednesday...
"The common thread among the affected workers is that they all worked in a part of the plants that used compressed air to blow pig brains out of skulls, Lachance said. All the plants have discontinued the practice.
The working hypothesis, he told reporters, is still that some of the brain tissue was turned into a fine mist during the process, and that the workers became exposed to it and somehow developed an autoimmune response that caused nerve damage.
"The precise mechanism by which that is occurring, we do not yet understand," Lachance said.
Common symptoms include pain, weakness, fatigue and numbness. A unique pattern of antibodies has been found in all the patients, Lachance said.
A Spanish-language interpreter at an Austin clinic and plant nurses realized last year they were seeing a pattern of similar illnesses among the workers. The Mayo Clinic reported 12 cases to the state Health Department in November. In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the condition a name — progressive inflammatory neuropathy, or PIN..." (Karnowski, Steve; April 16, 2008)
Retrieved today at: read entire article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_re_us/slaughterhouse_illness"Dr. Daniel Lachance, a Mayo Clinic neurologist, said there are now 18 confirmed cases among people who have worked at the Quality Pork Processors plant in Austin, Minn. That's up from 13 cases reported as of February..."
"It doesn't appear that the slaughtered pigs have been ill," said Dr. James Sejvar, a neurologist and epidemiologist at the CDC. "It doesn't appear that this is in any way a foodborne illness. And it doesn't appear as if this particular illness can be transmitted person to person."
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"The common thread among the affected workers is that they all worked in a part of the plants that used compressed air to blow pig brains out of skulls"
That's one hell of a common thread there.
I hear that at fondue parties all the time.
"What line of work ya' in?"
"Pig brains, we blow 'em out of the skulls with compressed air."
I can't, for the life of me, figure out, why more youngsters aren't interested in working with pig brains.
" Donde esta los cesos de los puercos. En la aigre?"
" Achoo! Achoo!"
Dear [dot]Com-mentors:
Good summaries from all [dot]com-mentors... I am thinking of the power behind commentary. I truly think that your remarks do sway the tide of lunacy in the world, and not just toward more lunacy.
Rather, when they quark that pork brain with atomizing spray, for starters "...the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the condition a name..."
Yes, we indeedy have a name: PIN is that name.
"...Common symptoms include pain, weakness, fatigue and numbness. A unique pattern of antibodies has been found in all the patients, Lachance said.
I am sure future guidance counselor brochures on pig brain misting will include a warning label: "May cause PIN in some individuals."
Thanks for dropping in my special reader(s), all two of you. pd/mpw
Once upon a time, there were three little pigs. They were going to branch out from the wallow and build some houses, so the story goes.
The first little pig, who was always in a hurry, threw together some straw from Farmer Brown's field and tied it up with a piece of twine or two. Then he beat hooves down to the Circle K to buy some quick picks.
The second little pig, who was quite the artisan, rounded up some beautiful barn wood and old brass hardware from the antique store up on Wolverton Mountain. He nailed and hammered with some number 16's he found in a keg behind the pump house at Farmer Browns. He felt like he had a home, sweet home. He toodled off to the Sweets'n'Eats to grab a bite.
Well, while those two were busy, wasting their time, according to little pig number three, he gathered some T1 steel I an H beams, an arc welder, some stainless steel joist hangars, sixty yards of concrete, two thousand bricks, some titanium, 50,000 pounds of solid rocket fuel and a pile "Thor, Green Lantern and Batman" comics. He built a missile, missile silo and was going to the Moon. "I'll be a Moon_Pig before I stick around and watch that *&#% wolf atomize my buddies houses and their brains. Adios." There he went and everyone to this day thought that missile silo was a brick house. The End
Dave that sure sounds like you. A moot_Pig nod to Dave!! UDAMAN.
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