Originally posted by StorminN:
I haven't read much about this at all, so someone with more time than myself can research this, but... I know lots of fish food (ie, pellets fed to hatchery and farm-raised fish) contains chicken and other non-fish meat byproducts... if these prions can indeed withstand being eaten, processed, cooked, etc, there might be a POSSIBILITY that prions could be tranferred from cows to chickens (via the chickens' feed) and consequently from chickens to fish (via the fishes' feed)
-N.
Speaking of the food chain, here's some info:
Table 4. Observed dietary inclusion levels of the major feed ingredients within practical complete pelleted [farm and hatchery] fish and shrimp diets. From
http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/AB467E/AB467E02.htm Alfalfa meal
Blood meal (spray dried)
Cassava/Tapioca meal
Coconut oilcake/oilmeal
Corn grain, meal
Corn gluten meal
Cottonseed meal
Corn distillers dried solubles
Dicalcium phosphate
Hydrolyzed feather meal
Fish meal
Fish protein concentrate
Groundnut meal
Liver meal
Meat & Bone meal
Poultry by-product meal
Rapeseed meal
Rice bran
Shrimp meal
Squid meal
Sorghum grain
Soybean meal
Wheat grain, meal
Wheat bran
Wheat gluten meal
Wheat middlings
Whey, dried (delactose)
Yeast, dried brewers
"The domesticated [salmon] that eat these pellets have come to dominate wild [salmon] runs so completely that a lure imitating the Oregon Moist Pellet is the top choice for many anglers in the lower Columbia." From
http://www.tidepool.org/dispatches/amphipods.cfm I IMAGINE THEY'LL EAT ALMOST ANY PELLET, EVEN EXCREMENT. Max Ledbetter
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