----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Creaser" <[email protected]>
To: "Bill Mixon" <[email protected]>; "CaveTex"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: CaveTex: mercury in bats


> > Finally, a reason not to eat bats.... -- Mixon
>
> I dunno...
>
> So the bats have 10ppm of mercury in them. A person has got
> to weigh several hundred times more than a bat so this'll
> get diluted to a maximum 0.1ppm. That's gotta be safe. And
> as long as one doesn't mop up the oil left in the pan after
> you cook 'em, with a piece of bread, then some of the mercury
> will go that way too.
>
> Anyone have any good bat recipes? I'm not keen on eating
> raw meat :-)

Only ones I know of are for fruit bat from Guam or the Philippines. A much
more meaty critter.


Ted


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