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Holy shit…can you people stop talking about fucking Prions when you don’t know anything about it? Talk about salmonella, E. coli, or listeria. Talk about a REALISTIC threat, not some insane hyper specific disease that 1 out of every million people get.bisexualmaozedong
They are wanting meat processing to be deregulated. "only 4 companies" could be fixed without lowering standards of regulation. Do you know what a prion disease is? Do you know why we have so much regulations? I don't like monopolies, but use your brains.Kinda agree, in that there are many other untreatable deadly diseases that might be in you for years without activating The hard part is just that it’s very hard to get rid of Prions without like incinerating everything around it. And unlike the UK, the USA doesn’t have the guts to incinerate cows that might have prions
No. That’s not what makes it notably rare. There are specific BSE controls outside of normal processing regulations that make it rare. This is the same exact logic people use when they thought Israel or Russia were going to start using nukes. It’s nonsensical and is specifically fear-mongering for the sake of it. I’m not telling you that you have to like Trumps stupid ass decision, I’m saying that it is entirely separate and there are bigger worries then mad cow
Ehh…I mean they’ll cull entire herds if one has it. They did the same for chicken/turkey farms with bird flu…but yes, the argument keeps getting centered around prions which is extremely frustrating given none of these dipshits know anything about it other than OMG IT CAN BE CURED AND ITS 100% MORTALITY OMGGGG
I have been, dipshit. You are acting like prion will be some massive pandemic world-ending disease if regulations from meat processing is pulled, when that’s not even what was pulled. Those same smaller facilities would still have to follow BSE guidelines. All they’re doing here is bringing up the fact that this raises prion disease chances from a non-zero % chance.
The only example of a prion disease being common in humans was a tribe in papua new guinea that had a tradition of eating the brains of the dead. The fact that there is only one recorded example of prions being a significant cause of death in a human population in history makes it pretty clear it would be rare regardless of regulation. Thats not to say that regulation can’t help.
Actually, let me correct myself on this to be crystal clear. The people who disagree here either thoroughly believe that prions is a real threat OR they know the actual information behind prions disease and are using it as a fearmonger to smuggle in the broader point of why deregulation of the meat industry is bad. They don’t know what the term DISTINCTION means.
The BSE crisis is exactly why I’m distinguishing BSE controls from meat regulation generally. The UK outbreak was driven primarily by infected ruminant material being recycled into cattle feed, and the response was targeted at feed bans, surveillance, culling, and removal of specified-risk tissues. If you’re claiming current deregulation raises prion risk, show which of those BSE safeguards is being weakened. We don’t operate under the feeding conditions that allowed for the UK outbreak.