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Yeah. CWD a big problem but it isn't going to cause a zombie apocalypse like the headline implies.
Prion diseases can take decades to show symptoms, like with CJD, and are very hard to test for in humans.
It might not be a question of whether it can jump species barriers, but when we will know it did, which is why the CDC can't and won't ring any alarm bells, just advise caution, until it's either too late for individuals or a confirmed non-issue.
There was a study that claimed it had jumped to chimps/monkeys in a testing environment but last I heard it was disputed, but that still leaves the average citizen with plenty of reason to not
Checks notes
Eat a diseased animal.
Source your venison, it should be tested if it's from an affected area but you never can trust suppliers for wild game.
Consider just eating, you know, cow, or only venison from a trusted source.
Preferably the person that shot and had it butchered.
Eat the person who shot the deer? Dang that's some extreme veganism.
Turn about is fair play 😤
Do you want to get Kuru? Because that’s how you get Kuru!
Only if you eat the uncooked brain iirc.
Fun fact, human is the only meat that can be vegan! They just have to consent to it
it's still exploiting an animal. it's not vegan.
edit: this user seems to think theyn can poison the well so that readers will be misled about what words mean. I encourage you to actually learn.
It's not exploitation if they consent, that's the entire point of veganism
it is. consent has nothing to do with exploitation.
This is nonsense. If I have a thing, and I give you that thing freely and of my own volition, you have not exploited me. If we're going to say that that's necessarily exploitation, then all transactions are exploitative, and nothing could be considered vegan except for growing your own vegetables in the wild. No, human-derived food can be vegan, as is the case with milk.
taking something to use it is the barest definition of exploitation.
Sure, it's the most braindead definition you can use, and it ignores the very concept of why vegans are vegan in the first place. Big "gender=sex is basic biology" energy here
the vegan society says "all forms of exploitation".
too many commas there.
No human-derived food can be vegan, as is the case with milk.
My friend. If even PETA agrees that human milk is vegan, you can be damn sure that human milk is vegan.
peta is not the authority on the meaning of veganism
There’s also the option of just not eating venison if you’re really worried.
The issue is that deer dont eat each other often enough for that to be how they spread it among each other.
So whatever vector is moving it around in them, which we dont actually know yet, is the more likely risk of an actual jump. Cant not take a risk if you cant tell if its risky.
That's disappointing