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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do we know for sure that diseased meat doesn't have a chance to infect a plant if used as a fertilizer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

At least in CWD-causing prions, plant accumulation is significant enough for the plants to be infectious when consumed by mice in a lab setting. So, maybe?

https://www.usgs.gov/publications/plants-vectors-environmental-prion-transmission