Prions spread in the wild are primarily from herbivores. The old timers were avoiding bacteria. My grandfather told me it was a primary reason they couldn’t pilfer/eat anything but hot peppers when he was a POW (and he got hammered after being caught with a few) but Japanese were used to it and used human waste for fertilizer.
Aside, given what we know these days, I entertain the idea that prions were purposefully facilitated into the north american food chain, and that other biological “incidents” also have a high probability of being malevolent acts (West Nile, Tick borne meat allergy, etc...)
Aside, given what we know these days, I entertain the idea that prions were purposefully facilitated into the north american food chain, and that other biological “incidents” also have a high probability of being malevolent acts (West Nile, Tick borne meat allergy, etc...)
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Not sure what they were avoiding, other than I was always told to never use that waste material (from carnivores) for fertilizing anything that would be eaten. The ‘wasting disease’ has hit our deer herds locally. My grandparents had never heard of it. Not sure where or how that started. But we are quite sure that the wet fall seasons and patches of unharvested corn harbor micotoxins. Anyway, I agree that some of these incidents are beyond mysterious.