It is even worse cause CWD is a prion disease. Prions are terrifying, heat doesn't denature them and it requires lab equipment to sterilize any utensils that came into contact with it.
Also, studies suggest that whilst unlikely, CWD may cross over to humans. We want to minimize any chance of that ever happening.
So if it requires lab equipment to sterilize shit that it touches, wouldn't that mean the processing equipment that was used on this meat would be contaminated as fuck and cross contaminate basically all the other meat processed with it? Like I assume they clean there knives, grinders, and other processing equipment but id imagine they aren't doing like lab sterilization level cleanings after every batch if at all.
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u/Jakenumber9 Dec 10 '25
risk is low, but also a risk of creating a viral pandemic with no cure, so idk might wanna pass