I'm not a Rogan listener, but that sounds like the guy who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel.
As far as eating them, there's not a lot of concrete evidence yet. This is a pretty good summary:
Can monkeys get CWD from an infected deer? The answer isn’t as clear-cut as you might already believe. If you’ve followed CWD at all over the past several years, you’ve heard of the 2017 study results reported by the University of Calgary. In that study, researchers successfully infected five of...
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It doesn't seem like a huge worry from a human transmission standpoint. But cross-species prion infection has occurred in the past.
It's hard to toe the line between the fear-mongering common to today's journalism and prudent caution in the face of the unknown.