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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, prion diseases are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does prion disease affect pigs who eat other pigs? Is it one of the reasons we are extra careful to cook pork thoroughly?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No. The reason that we used to be advised to cook pork thoroughly was because of trichinosis. That is no longer common, so it is no longer necessary to thoroughly cook pork to the degree that it used to be.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean those diseases which have never been found to occur in pigs? Yeah. Delicious. I'm not defending this practice, but your reason to be against it is based on a falsehood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You're right. So far we only know about transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep, goats, mink, elk, deer, cattle, cats, antelope, camels, and humans, they can incubate for decades, and we can only reliably detect prions post-mortem. It'll never turn up in any other animal, nope!