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TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants." (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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And it gives them bird flu.

Yum.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

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.