Hey, so long as she doesn't intend to eat her rabbit (or whatever eats it), there is no problem letting it eat her flesh now is there? There is literally only one reason we avoid cannibalism and feeding our livestock humans: both practices are great vectors of contagions to spread among humans.
@havelmom I mean, they are made of chocolate. I sure hope he intends to eat them and not enshrine them til they go bad.
@feha Yeah, they're great vectors. For prions. Any micro-organisms you can get rid of by properly cooking. But not prions. Those fuckers survive boiling, can survive 200°C for hours, get glued to any surfaces, are highly resistant to chemicals, and you can throw a shitton of radiation on them and they'll just flip the bird on you...
@feha@Chizan
Generally, eating anything that died with a disease is not advisable. Most of the meat we eat are from slaughtered healthy livestock.
The problem isn't exactly because of cannibalism. Prions in nature could be spread through remains/manure on the ground. As for the Mad Cow Disease, remains of infected cattle (which could have acquired it from prions in the environment) were fed to live cattle as bonemeal, and then these infected living cattle might be slaughtered for meat at some point which would be how it could spread to humans. Kuru on the other hand is an unfortunate consequence of a funeral practice of eating the remains of someone who has just died, usually by Kuru itself. I bet a cannibalistic tribe who exclusively ate healthy people would have probably been fine.