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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Well the trouble isn't the fact that it's meat, if grown in a lab not attached to any sentience I think that part is fine. The issue is that eating your own species creates prion diseases and if it's the same species, I dunno what the risk factors would be.
So likely not because kuru disease is pretty permanent.
So likely not because kuru disease is pretty permanent.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Zaphod42 I asked ai and it said:
The “brain only” part is too simplistic: the highest prion risk is usually in brain and other nervous tissue, but prions can also be found in skeletal muscle, so muscle is not guaranteed safe
What is true:
Kuru in the Fore people was strongly linked to eating brain tissue, and women/children were affected more often largely because they ate the brain more often than men, who more often ate muscle �.
That part supports the idea that brain tissue is the highest-risk tissue
What is misleading:
It is misleading to say tribes that ate only muscle “didn’t have the same problems” because muscle was harmless. The better explanation is that muscle likely carried a lower dose of infectious prions than brain tissue, not zero risk �.
Modern prion research shows prions can accumulate in skeletal muscle in infected animals, which is why meat can still be a concern if the source is infected
For lab-grown human meat:
If the cells were truly free of prions and the process stayed sterile, the prion risk would be much lower in theory. But your concern is still reasonable: a product derived from human cells would need strong safeguards against any prion contamination, because prion diseases are unusually hard to detect and eliminate.
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Since I don't trust big corporations to have safe guards I think I'll keep being vegan lol.
The “brain only” part is too simplistic: the highest prion risk is usually in brain and other nervous tissue, but prions can also be found in skeletal muscle, so muscle is not guaranteed safe
What is true:
Kuru in the Fore people was strongly linked to eating brain tissue, and women/children were affected more often largely because they ate the brain more often than men, who more often ate muscle �.
That part supports the idea that brain tissue is the highest-risk tissue
What is misleading:
It is misleading to say tribes that ate only muscle “didn’t have the same problems” because muscle was harmless. The better explanation is that muscle likely carried a lower dose of infectious prions than brain tissue, not zero risk �.
Modern prion research shows prions can accumulate in skeletal muscle in infected animals, which is why meat can still be a concern if the source is infected
For lab-grown human meat:
If the cells were truly free of prions and the process stayed sterile, the prion risk would be much lower in theory. But your concern is still reasonable: a product derived from human cells would need strong safeguards against any prion contamination, because prion diseases are unusually hard to detect and eliminate.
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Since I don't trust big corporations to have safe guards I think I'll keep being vegan lol.