I remember that foot and mouth in the UK at one time almost stopped
most sheep gut production; and so it follows that issues with BSE could
also effect beef gut production. Indeed, it seems that Eu vetinary
surgeons, have already intervened to ban some beef gut production
experiments.
I understand that beef-gut has to be split and polished before it is
sent to the string maker; and this calls for very expensive machinery,
and no doubt specifically trained people to use them.
Probably, in the past this was done by hand. Very few beef producers
can afford the machinery, and no doubt if this "industrial" production
is interrupted for any reason, it becomes very difficult to restart.
regards
Anthony
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De : Bruno Fournier <br...@estavel.org>
A : b...@symbol4.de
Cc : simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Envoye le : Jeudi 17 Novembre 2011 15h39
Objet : [LUTE] Re: Gut strings
Hi All,A
One thing for sure, when I spoke to the Sofracob owner last year
before
he closed, he mentioned that one of the main reasons and problems,
was
the mad cow disease issues in France over the last few years, and
that
it was becoming more and more difficult to obtain gut. A So who knows
what the real story is. A Did anyone ask Mimmo directly?
regards
BrunoA
Montreal, Canada
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM, <[1][1]b...@symbol4.de> wrote:
A >Does anyone know if Kuerchner in Germany is still making gut
strings?
A Or Kathedrale (?).
A It is quite funny - and also a little bit alarming- to see, how
the EU
A bureaucracy becames the projection area for the strangest ideas
and
A fears. A reputation well earned, some may say, but a little bit
more of
A horse sense is recommended when one reads announcements like the
one
A about gut strings - (or, before, the one about the alleged
prohibition
A of natural medicine).
A In fact many people here in Brussels are quite normal. I as a
German
A was at once sure that it must be a hoax, because we eat every
day
A 12.689.344 sausages, many of them with a delicious skin of sheep
gut. I
A called a big producer of those so called "saitling" sausage
skins: they
A are producing happily and will go on forever. The same with
Kuerschner
A strings.
A I asked people form the health department of the EU commission:
guts no
A topic at all.
A If you want to read really strange laws, read your national
legislation
A :))
A So: No idea, where the gut story comes from.
A Perhaps we should still start in the good tradition one of those
A internet petitions ;)
A best wishes (while wishing is still allowed)
A Bernd
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