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...story-within-a-story, and the truly entertaining moment of the episode, was the drama around the gross-out food wheel. Kimmi, a vegetarian who will eat fish but has a moral objection to "land-dwelling animals," including cow brain, should have been canned for costing her team the win. But Tina choked - literally - on her tripe, and Kimmi came back impressively by scarfing down a foot-long mangrove worm, which apparently didn't bother her morally. (I guess the Vegetarian Code doesn't cover anything nobody in the West ever thought to eat before, even if it is land...
...wonder Europe is terrified of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as mad-cow disease. The illness started attacking British cattle in the mid-1980s. Then it crossed the species barrier; a human version of BSE has killed more than 80 Britons since 1995. Then it leaped across the Irish Sea and the English Channel, afflicting cows in 12 European nations. Last week Italy confirmed its first cases. Late last year, it hit Spain and Germany. Earlier this month, the German ministers of health and agriculture resigned in disgrace when their assurances that German beef was safe proved false...
...1950s, when the U.S. banned imports of British goats and sheep. Reason: a flock of British sheep had a degenerative brain disease called scrapie. Scrapie is harmless to humans, it turns out, and generally harmless to cattle as well, even when infected sheep tissues are injected directly into a cow's brain. But scientists believe some sheep carcasses, ground up to add to British cattle feed, carried an unusual form of the disease that did manage to infect cows. That variant, renamed BSE, began to show up in British herds in the 1980s, eventually afflicting nearly 200,000 animals...
...result, not one cow in America has so far been found to have BSE--and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an aggressive plan to find, quarantine and destroy any if they appear. "Even if you do eat beef from an infected cow," says Michael Scott, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the disease in cattle and humans, "you have a very low risk of contracting VCJD...
...imitators' success or failure won't matter to S2 if the casting and intense outback conditions deliver the goofiness, queasiness and drama of the first. Oh, and about that raw cow's brain? "They eat all parts of the cow," Probst confides coyly. "We give the contestants the staples of the outback, and that means all parts of the cow, raw. But we cut it up for them." With 14 fresh episodes of last year's biggest pop-culture hit and a buff, bikinied cast, CBS thinks it has the raw, red meat its audience wants. Let's hope...