Nonsense my a.s.

Prions aren't a "disease", it's a "malfunction". In a boiled-down
explanation, a prion is a broken key protein chain that bonds like normal
with other key protein chains. Because it's not a "foreign body", your
immune system doesn't attack it, and because it's only just broken enough to
cause a malfunction, it's not reclaimed by your body (it still registers as
"healthy").

So; prions form in the same category as cancers, in that they cause the body
to break down due to a continuous series of malfunctions. Wherever a prion
bonds, it stops the body from working at 100%. One prion is fine, your
body's resilient enough to adapt. But if you flood your system with them
(such as with meat from a mad cow infected calf/etc), you're bound to cause
yourself system-wide problems.

That in essence is what prions do, they're just broken cogs that your body
can't see are broken. Unlike cancer, prions are "transmittable" in the sense
that protein can be recycled by your body from your meals. You eat a steak,
you're getting protein, it's that simple. It doesn't matter whether said
steak is from a cow, a crocodile, or a 30-year-old swf from Florida, it's
still protein. As your body picks up prions as protein, prions are
"recycled" into your body from your meal.

Why is this a bad thing for mad cow "disease"? 'Cause mad cow is essentially
a prion overdose caused by the cows being fed beef-based products for
generations. Bad processing practice (for animal-quality filler feed) has
allowed much of said protein to degenerate until it contains a high amount
of broken protein chains; prions. Said cows eat the feed and become sick.
Many said cows then get processed -back- into the feed, which causes the
problems to worsen. People eat the cows and they get sick. This is because
prions cause problems along the food chain, whether you are a cow, a human,
or a troll.

Boiling the meat does almost nothing to the quality of the meal, either in
terms of health or taste. Many boiled meals use the liquid "broth" as a meal
in of itself or even have it thickened to form a sauce/gravy, which means
that the nutrients -and problems- then come in as flavouring afterwards.
Also, as prions aren't a "disease", there's no health benefits to be gained
from cooking and/or freezing them.

Of course, the process of cooking/heating/burning (depending on your skill
at cooking) your meal will kill a -large- number of diseases that almost all
meats have floating in them, from store-bought meats to that straight off
your animal of choice. Likewise, freezing causes the same process, so
freezing meats for a long time before cooking them causes the bugs to suffer
one apocalyptic ice-age and then a firestorm. This is also why it's a bad
idea to refreeze meats; Darwinian theory shows that the bugs in the meat
that survive being frozen breed. Putting the meat back in the freezer only
slows them down, and worse allows them to spread. Chicken is especially bad
for this.

I do also agree with you on the topics of digesting too many of certain
amino acids, and also with the basis of feeding animals coconut rather than
soy/corn/maize, but the same goes for humans as for cows. Not going too far
into why lecithin is bad for you in large quantities though.

Back onto prions and why human meats may be bad for you. Traditionally, long
pork has been eaten by civilisations that condone said consumption for
religious purposes; ie; look at many early Mesopotamian civilisations, or
the Picts for a good example. Modern day "cannibals" mostly theorise about
it & fantasise about it, or are cooling their heels in jail. Hate to say it,
but if it weren't the case there'd be a lot less publicity about exposed
cannibals in the media, so there's a lot less investigation done into the
effects of long pork on human beings.

However, from previous studies done into the effects of feeding beef to cows
or chicken off-cuts to chickens, more chickens and cows come up with
prion-related problems (ie; mad cow) when fed their own species than when
not. Even then, more chickens and cows came up with prion-related problems
when fed brain and nervous tissue from their own species than when fed other
parts. I don't know why that is myself, I'm not going to look too far into
that anyway. What I am interested in pointing out is that if you consume
"choice cuts" of long pork (ie; brain, eyes, or other high-nerve areas),
you're probably -Probably- going to come down sick.

So; freeze your chosen person for two weeks, cook them at a high
temperature, and stay away from nerve-intensive areas and you should be
fine. Other than the regular problems of eating too much meat; such as
getting fat.

Hope that was insightful, and stay away from live current if you can avoid
it this summer/winter/whatever the hell season it is.

--Unobtrusive

"Aquarius: Despite the name-sake of your star sign, you cannot breathe
water. Stay away from dark alleys filled with terrorists this month, and try
not to provoke german shepherds into eating your neck. Your love-life shows
signs of improvement only if you can remember to bathe, socialise, and not
insult everyone in sight."

One website describes Kuru as:
"This is a transmissable prion disease found only in the Fore people of
New Guinea. It first appeared about 60 years ago and the incidence
increased until the late 1950's. The disease is now known to have been
transmitted through ritual cannibalism: until the late 1950's it was
the practice of women and children to eat the brains and viscera of
dead relatives, including those who had themselves died of Kuru.
Cannibalism stopped in 1957 and the incidence of Kuru has declined
sharply since then."

Like you have/are?

And you are replying because?

Oh well. Monkey see, monkey do, I guess.

Peace y'all

--U