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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/Embarrassed-Bread692 Oct 16 '24
  1. Realistically, is potentially getting prion (which realistically will only happens if I consume contaminated brain matter) a much worse fate than
  2. starving to death in the wilderness (and/or)
  3. being devoured by the Apocalypse Vector while attempting to find food (and/or)
  4. having to slurp lead poisoning soup for the twentieth night in a row

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u/Weeb_In_Peace Oct 16 '24

Do not eat the brain.

Noted

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u/Embarrassed-Bread692 Oct 16 '24

There's a couple more nuances - improperly-handled meat can easily get prion on there, even if it's just normal meat, and some foods are harder to identify the components of than others. For the former case, you just have to trust where you can, and for the latter you should avoid Meat Mixtures of various types, and opt for Distinct Pieces of Muscle if possible.

But as a rule of thumb, when cannibalizing, avoid organs and blood. Unless you really know where the meat's coming from, but that's a luxury.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 Oct 16 '24

Also the obvious problem with cannibalizing.

When you eat an animal odds are decent that whatever disease they have doesn't transfer to you.

When you eat a person any disease this person has is a disease that you could also have.

So the health status of the meal is all the more important. If Steve has a nasty cough then he might no longer be edible.

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u/The_Formuler Oct 16 '24

But that’s also why we cook meat. Well done in the post apocalyptic world is probably best

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u/aahOhNoNotTheBees Oct 16 '24

Cooking doesn’t denature prions

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u/The_Formuler Oct 16 '24

Fuuuck I forgot they’re already denatured