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<blockquote data-quote="Slappy" data-source="post: 350883" data-attributes="member: 7608">Interesting insights, Allen.Reviewing the numbers and epidemiology on CJD and vCJD (BSE), it's fair to say cases are extremely rare and contributing factors include age, heredity, and mass-production practices. I agree the risk is not zero, but it is exceedingly small. I am far more concerned about government funding research that might encourage the jump to humans, but this would be unprecedented, right?Like many things (climate and COVID alarmism for two examples), the response may be worse than doing nothing at all. In the context of prion longevity and uptake by other organisms in nature, which is worse: requiring a deer hunter to leave scrambled brain tissue or a boned out carcass in the field versus allowing it to be removed intact from the field and disposed of in a landfill?No amount of baiting will result in congregation like a watering hole in a drought or a food source in a tough winter. No amount of hunting regulation will reduce the risk by a meaningful margin compared to what occurs outside of hunting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slappy, post: 350883, member: 7608"] Interesting insights, Allen. Reviewing the numbers and epidemiology on CJD and vCJD (BSE), it's fair to say cases are extremely rare and contributing factors include age, heredity, and mass-production practices. I agree the risk is not zero, but it is exceedingly small. I am far more concerned about government funding research that might encourage the jump to humans, but this would be unprecedented, right? Like many things (climate and COVID alarmism for two examples), the response may be worse than doing nothing at all. In the context of prion longevity and uptake by other organisms in nature, which is worse: requiring a deer hunter to leave scrambled brain tissue or a boned out carcass in the field versus allowing it to be removed intact from the field and disposed of in a landfill? No amount of baiting will result in congregation like a watering hole in a drought or a food source in a tough winter. No amount of hunting regulation will reduce the risk by a meaningful margin compared to what occurs outside of hunting. [/QUOTE]

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