Just as side note to this,A the ban appears to be European and not
just Italian.A Mad cow disease in europe led to this ban, which
ultimately led to the closing of SOFRACOB.A The ban appears to have
been lifted in certain instances, such as for sausage casing in France.
Obviously the lobbying of sausage makers is more important than that of
gut string makers...
A
Bruno
A
A
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Orphenica <[1]wer...@orphenica.de>
wrote:
Hi collective lute wisdom,
can somebody sum up the situation on gut strings for me. As I am a
heavy gut player, I'd like to
understand what is going on in this field.
As far as I understood it, the production and import of gut strings
(esp. beef gut) used to be forbidden in the EU,
due to cases of BSE some years ago. This jurisdiction has been
withdrawn and production is allowed again, with the exception of
Italy which missed to cancel the abolition from the national Italian
body of law.
Aquila stopped the production of gut strings due to this national
Italian jurisdiction AND/OR because it could not get raw material of
sufficient quality, because of import restrictions.
As I read from the post here on the lists, production in other
countries do not seem to be problematic
If this is the case, petitions addressed to the EU are quite
useless, petitions should be adressed to the Italian government. I
am inclined to sign any petition that keeps the production of gut
strings going, but I am not
quite sure, WHAT is the real nature of the problem.
It would be nice if somebody kindly could sum up the situation for
me.
Thanks
A we
Am 19.11.11 16:53, schrieb William Samson:
A A Hi Garry,
A A Talking of "lip smacking good", there was stuff in Nelson's
navy called
A A 'portable soup' that was made by boiling a vat of soup until it
A A attained the consistency of thick hide glue, then letting it
cool. A It
A A was broken into slabs that could be re-constituted by the
addition of
A A hot water. A I wouldn't be surprised if it was
indistinguishable from
A A hide glue. A On the other hand, the sailors enjoyed it - but
then I
A A suppose it was nice compared to weevilly biscuits and salt beef
that
A A had circled the globe several times. A Also they wouldn't have
lived
A A long enough for the prions to take effect.
A A Bill
A A From: Garry Warber<[2]garrywar...@hughes.net>
A A To: [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
A A Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 13:09
A A Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc.
A A William,
A A Hey, welcome to the mindset in the states... A We are not known
as
A A "yanks" for nothing. :-) A You are right, "loose lips sink
ships", more
A A or less. A Of course, there is that prions not being harmed by
cooking
A A thing. A But as far as I know, only one guy here thinks hide
glue is
A A "lip-smacking good!" :-)+LOL...
A A Garry
A A -----Original Message----- From: William Samson
A A Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 3:18 AM
A A To: [1][4]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
A A Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc.
A A A ----- Forwarded Message -----
A A A From: William Samson<[2][5]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>
A A A To: Garry Warber<[3][6]garrywar...@hughes.net>
A A A Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 8:12
A A A Subject: Re: [LUTE] gut string, etc.
A A A >>Is hide glue now also banned in the EU?
A A A SHHH!!!! A I hope none of these Eurocrats is reading this
list!!!
A A A This'll give them the opportunity to appoint dozens more
overpaid
A A A officials who get bonuses for imposing bans and senseless
rules and
A A A regulations. A Remember the 'straight banana' fiasco? A Now
they are
A A A denying they ever tried to ban curved ones . . .
A A A Still, the great thing about hide glue is that you can make
your own
A A by
A A A boiling up roadkill in a secret location where the thought
police
A A can't
A A A find you.
A A A Bill
A A A PS A Orwell's '1984' was a long time coming, but it's with
us now -
A A A metrication, never ending wars, three political blocs (take
your
A A pick),
A A A 'Newspeak', CCTV cameras everywhere, political correctness .
. .
A A A PPS A Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean . . .
AARRRGGGHHH!!!!
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A
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A
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References
1. mailto:wer...@orphenica.de
2. mailto:garrywar...@hughes.net
3. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
4. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
5. mailto:willsam...@yahoo.co.uk
6. mailto:garrywar...@hughes.net
7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
8. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
9. mailto:willsam...@yahoo.co.uk
10. mailto:garrywar...@hughes.net
11. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
12. http://www.estavel.org/
