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by gus_massa 554 days ago
Prions are real. Don't eat mad cow. Rememeber that boiling prions would not kill them, but burning them to ashes will.

Mirrored bacterias are still just scifi. It's too hard to make one of them for now and some normal bacterias will eat them anyway becuase there are a lot of weird bacterias that can eat some specific varity of crap. One of them will save us [1].

The normal bacterias can have trouble eating the reversed proteins, RNA, DNA and even sugars. But oil/fat don't have this problem! In the worst case, normal bacterias will just steal all the oil and fat from the reversed bacterais and kill them, and we will have to sweep the discarded reversed proteins and burn them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds