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Man finds out migraines caused by brain tapeworms; undercooked bacon may be culprit
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From prions to tapeworms, rare though they may be, I'm happy to be vegetarian even though I miss wings.
Fun fact: Both prions and tapeworms can spread from vegetables!
Enjoy your next meal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7030912/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34816974/
How did I know someone would reply with something like this lol.
Guess I'll just die.
Edit: So having read these more closely and looked into it further:
Yes, it's suggested there is a vector for prion disease — particularly CWD — from cross-contamination of plants but the study focused on Chronic-Wasting Disease (CWD), which itself is not infectious to humans... Yet.
There have been no documented infection of a life-long vegetarian/vegan with an human-infectious prion disease. One famous case discovered the individual got it from infected beef as a child.
Tapeworms and Roundworms can cross-contaminate vegetables, mostly due to poop. Wash your veggies. Cook your meat.
Nevertheless the vast majority of tape-worm and round-worm cases stem from meat. Naturally, if one needs only wash/cook the exterior of a vegetable versus ensuring the internal cooking of meat from an animal raised around other animals and wallowing in its own shit, the risk is evidently going to be much higher in the latter.
Wash your veggies, cook them, and wash them again. Cook them one more time if you don't trust your water
It's been three days. I starve, yet I must wash and cook the vegetables ten more times before I can eat them.
I love fun facts.
Study seems to suggest exposing the wheat plant roots to lots of prions didn't do anything other than get them on the roots, sometimes?
The Gardein ultimate chic'n wings are pretty solid if you haven't had them yet. I wish someone made veggie wings that you could use your own sauce with, but I haven't seen any.
Omg dude you're right about that, best veggie wings I've had, but I've also never seen something contain that much sodium per serving. Meanwhile that little bag contains 4050mg in total lol.
Cauliflower wings are a decent alternative if cooked correctly
I've had cauliflower pizza and holy sodium was that high. I'm a sodium tolerant person and even that was too much for me. Back to instant ramen
Agreed. Also tofu bites, but cauliflower is easier to execute in my opinion.