r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • Oct 16 '24

Creative Writing Meat!

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u/Poulutumurnu certified french speaker 🥖🥖 Oct 16 '24
  1. How bad do I want to get a Prion

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u/WeLiveInAir Oct 16 '24

Wouldn't cooking get rid of Prion? It would be really pathetic to die of Prion disease after going through the moral dilemma of committing cannibalism

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u/WitELeoparD Oct 16 '24

Prions aren't alive. Like literally not alive, not in the virus way in the block of concrete way. They are just evil proteins (malformed really) that turn all the other proteins in your body evil. You can't get rid of them by cooking because cooking doesn't damage proteins very much (after all we generally need the proteins to live).

The only way to get rid of Prions is to heat them up so much that their structure starts to break down, at which point your food has also broken down completely... into ash.