“Prions cannot be destroyed by boiling, alcohol, acid, standard autoclaving methods, or radiation. In fact, infected brains that have been sitting in formaldehyde for decades can still transmit spongiform disease. Cooking your burger ‘til it’s well done won’t destroy the prions!”
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/prions
Diseased animals should never be eaten by humans. Unless one wants to become part of the food chain.
That’s what I don’t get. Our guts break down proteins into peptides and amino acids. Heat denatures proteins, messes up the folding.
Just because a protein is misfolded and wreaks havoc if it gets in the brain doesn’t mean it should be impervious to digestion and heat.