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Years ago they fed them with ground animal carcasses. For the minerals. Back then at the Crazy Cow (BSE) disaster. The days I became vegetarian.
They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there's enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.
Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.
We call Mad Cow, Kuru in humans.
Cannibalism is baaaaad
You have a few bits of half understood concepts in there, at least.
Do elaborate, I'd like to learn what was wrong about their comment.
It's a hugely simplified and slightly true version of where prions come from, to begin with. Like if a news article wanted to write something out in two sentences when it's based on a 20,000 word paper.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010318/#:~:text=An%20expanding%20body%20of%20evidence,conformation%20that%20becomes%20self%2Dpropagating.
God i remember that. People went: what can we doooo? We just have to eat meat, but carefully.
I was too young to just realise you can just not eat it.
I ate it and I'm still kicking