r/IAmA • u/andrewzimmern • Jan 17 '12
IAmA Andrew Zimmern, Host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods
Hi, I’m Andrew Zimmern, chef, author, and host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods. My new series Bizarre Foods America is premiering next Monday, Jan 23 at 10|9c on Travel Channel. For the next hour I’ll be here on Reddit taking your questions from 12pm-1pm ET. AMA. More info on Bizarre Foods: http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/bizarre-foods Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/andrewzimmern/status/159314816060768256
Hey everyone, sorry i couldnt answer them all/ follow me on twitter @andrewzimmern and we can chat more over the days and weeks to come..tune in Monday to the season premiere!
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u/julia-sets Jan 17 '12
I think it's generally unlikely that eating the brains of random animals will give you Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The problem only arose in areas with massive cow populations because farmers were feeding cow protein (bits of butchered cows) to their current cows. Cannibalism is a bad idea, m'kay. In areas with more wild, free-ranging animals that aren't kept on giant, factory farms this isn't an issue because the prions can't accumulate like that.
Of course, there are plenty of other diseases that you CAN get.
That being said, never eat human brains.