That peta stuff is pure B.S. Many times they stage their own crualty shows. Those people sicko's.
As I said, going vegitarian would not help at all, plus you'll miss out on some very good BBQ's, and be misurable.
You've aready ate the stuff long ago, plus veggies are grown in what? Prions have a half life simular to uranium.
Not every human is suseptable either for some reason unknown to science at this point, they suspect about half the population isn't according to some studies. Maybe only democrats are, which explains their nuttyness! LoL!
I wouldn't worry too much about it. All I'm really concerned about is that we be carefull and take precaustions with our food supply now that we know some about this, and how it can spread rapidly making it a problem, much like it did in the UK. We know how to prevent an outbreak, so we should take every precaution of doing just that.
It will take another hundred years before we learn the mysteries of the protein. We simply can't see things that small to be able to study them. They aren't the simple building blocks we once thought they were however.
This is why cloning should not be done on humans. We can create a prion type thing which could be unstoppable.
As we see, prions are darn hard to kill, even at 600 degree for 8 hours, they can survive. That is beyond any proccessing temperatures we use.
I hope the stuff in the PETA video is an abberation if not an outright lie. I might restrict my meat consumption to organic products (sold at Wild Oats and Whole Foods), which are feed no animal byproducts, and which are more humanely treated (cage free, etc.). There's a fine book that appeared maybe 15 years ago, The Paleolithic Prescription (S. B. Eaton, M. Shostak, M. Konner). They argue that the most natural diet is the one we ate through most of our existence as a species (until agriculture was invented maybe 9 thousand years ago): fruits, nuts, veggies, tubers, game meat. No dairy, no alcohol, no refined sugars, no marbled beef. Also, lots of vigorous exercise, both aerobic and resistance.
Another (sardonic) take on PETA: http://wave.prohosting.com/antiar/peta1.html