• Mighty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    One estimate in 2017 suggested humans could be eating up to 15,000 CWD-infected animals a year in the

    Yeah, no, eating animals is surely never a bad idea. They compare it to the BSE cases that caused years and years of consequences.

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      11 months ago

      The biggest problem with BSE was the idjit who decided that grinding up the offal from butchered cattle (even the sick and dead ones) should then be mixed into cattle feed.

      It was a self-propagating hot mess that affected multiple nations, including Canada.

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          11 months ago

          Yup. Just capitalism trying to save money on disposal fees while simultaneously making money selling infected shit as feed.