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by barbazoo 1887 days ago
> I have to imagine that vegans have an incredibly low risk profile for prions.

What do you reckon the risk profile of vegetarians would be? Are prions likely to end up in eggs and milk?

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In general I think we should be trying to eat foods that are really biologically dissimilar to humans to avoid being sickened by our foods' diseases. Plants and fungi don't seem to cause pandemics. Mammals do (SARS, covid, swine flu, possibly Spanish flu). Birds can make us sick (salmonella). Fish, mollusks, insects, probably safer, parasites aside.