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Sidenote, if that's what zombies eat then maybe we can just keep giving them lard to snack on

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you don't need to eat brains to get lard like the OP stated. Im not even sure if would be the best source. Im not sure I would want to eat brains given prions.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lard is rendered pig fat. It would be strange if that cake and pastry ingredient was what brains are made of.

Brains are an excellent emergency baby food, they're good food regardless with plenty of high energy fat and loads of nutrients

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really don't know but again given prions I would not feed it to a baby. I mean if I was in the wild and took down game for some reason I would also not touch the brain. I only mention lard because it was the OP and what my first commnet was refering to.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Prions very rarely affect other species, vCJD was unusual in that it was a cow cannibalism illness (mad cow disease) that also caused fatal mental illnesses in humans.

Sheep prions mess up sheep but not us, you're incredibly unlikely to get a prion disease from a random wild animal, and you're very safe if you only take healthy animals

The only populations that still live off the land that suffer prion disease are those that practice cannibalism. All of them eat brains. Humans probably evolved taking brains from lion kills; bashing the skulls open with rocks the same way chimps bash open nuts