Is medium-rare or undercooked steak still yummy
after learning about mad cow disease?
A brain from a person with mad cow disease, caused by prions (left)
Some people think that if you cook beef that makes it safe!
However, that's absolutely untrue because the prion protein can survive extremely high temperatures, so cooking will not protect anyone from this abnormal prion protein.
Mad cow disease has NO treatment, NO cure, and it's 100% fatal.
It is deadly, because once contracted there is nothing that can be done for the progression of tremors, loss of eyesight, loss of bodily function, dementia, and respiratory arrest.
Infection can occur very easily and it has been verified that if one gram of infected cow brain is consumed by another cow, transmission will occur.
Avoid medium-rare steak just because for maximum flavour and texture!
Stay away from mad cow disease! Have fully-cooked steak or beef product!
Reference: University of Maryland Medical Centre
Beatrice
That's scary, so no matter what, if infected meat is consumed whether it is fully cooked or not, the person will still suffer. Mad cow disease is just as scary as cancer. So has the prions actually corrode the brain?
ReplyDelete-Yueming
Yea haha, kinda contradicting. The article asks to stay away from uncook steak/beef, when they themselves say the prions can't be destroyed by high temperatures of cooking~
ReplyDelete-Jovin
@yueming, but seems like mad cow disease symptoms are scarier than cancer. Cancer is only usually chemotherapy and lose hair. Yup corrode the brain. Sad.
ReplyDelete@Jovin, huh? Shouldn't it be right since the prions can't be destroyed by high temperature of cooking and hence should stay away from uncooked steak/beef? Or is that because even full cooked, it doesn't mean the prions can be destroyed?
Beatrice
meh...And the chances of all this are? I LOVE a tasty med rare stake ribeye. One of the best foods in the world.
ReplyDeleteMad cow disease is not transmittable to humans, but there is a disease that is similar to mad cow disease, called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and it is just as deadly. However, it's not tramsittable from person to person and the only way to get infected is to eat the nerve tissue such as the brain or spinal cord of an infected cow. You cannot get it from eating steak. It's also extremely rare in the US, so go ahead and enjoy your steak since you can't get MCD from eating it. Just don't eat too much since that could lead to the development of colon cancer.
ReplyDeleteAwesome thoughts!
ReplyDeleteMedium Rare Steak Safe to Eat or Not