• db2@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In case anyone doesn’t get what’s happening, imagine feeding an animal nothing but its own shit.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not shit, but isn’t that what brought about mad cow disease? Farmers were feeding cattle brain matter that had infected prions. Idk if it was cows eating cow brains or other animals though.

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        3 months ago

        It was the remains of fish which we ground into powder and fed to other fish and sheep, whose remains we ground into powder and fed to other sheep and cows, whose remains we ground to powder and fed to other cows.

    • Stern@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I use the “Sistermother and me are gonna have a baby!” example personally, but I am a awful human so