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- From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Raw Pork & Bacon
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170211.16446@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
- Sender: news@pixel.kodak.com
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- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <1992Nov15.164711.26912@gssec.bt.co.uk> <Bxs6Gn.DD5@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:02:11 GMT
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- In article <Bxs6Gn.DD5@cs.dal.ca> maillet@cs.dal.ca (Dray Maillet) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov15.164711.26912@gssec.bt.co.uk>, dgordon@gssec.bt.co.uk (David Gordon) writes:
- >|> Hello Feline Folk.
- >|>
- >|> I've been reading the postings on raw pork with interest. Can anyone
- >|> make a definitive statement on whether raw bacon is also a major no-no ?
- >|>
- >|> Does the curing process mean that this 'orrible little parasite thingy
- >|> is wiped out or is it a bit tougher than that ?
- >|>
- >
- > If I remember my source correctly (a book I own that is far, far away), any
- > pork product (bacon, chops, ham, etc), either cooked or raw, is a no-no
- > because cats have a very hard time to digest it. Kinda like my cooking in
- > general. 8^)
-
- As far as I can determine from the CORNELL BOOK OF CATS, there is no
- specific proscription against pork for digestibility reasons.
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-