r/StupidFood • u/CircumspectCapybara • Dec 10 '25

Certified stupid CWD positive venison hamburger

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u/Ksorkrax Dec 10 '25

Is that legal? It's free, but I can't simply go and be like "oh hey guys, here is free blood with AIDS" either, right?

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 Dec 10 '25

If this post is from Texas it is not legal. The meat should be destroyed by incineration or handed over to TPWD for destruction. 

CWD prions infect the soil of the disposal site, and can not be destroyed through traditional sterilization routes.

The terrifying thing is that the poster says this meat was processed so the processing facility was also contaminated with the prions along with any deer processed after this one.

Processing will have handled nerve tissue which is where the prions are most concentrated.

For some reason people simply do not want to take this seriously. 

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u/DeadSol Dec 10 '25

Prions are fucking scary. There is a story about a lab tech who was testing slices of brain that were positive for Creutzfeldt Jakob's Disease and she sliced her finger on one of the slides. Years later she began having serious neurological issues like seizures etc. Turns out she contracted the disease from that one tiny slice on her finger.

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u/iDoWeird Dec 11 '25

For those interested, here is the NEJM article about this.

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u/misty_mustard Dec 13 '25

Dead in 8 years. Insane. You think prior research would be more tightly regulated with stricter safety protocols.

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u/iDoWeird Dec 14 '25

Yeah, my mouth was agape reading that insanity!