I think assigning animus to nature is misleading here. It's a factor that once known would influence people away from cannibalism, but there's plenty of canniba

I think assigning animus to nature is misleading here. It's a factor that once known would influence people away from cannibalism, but there's plenty of cannibalistic species that don't seem to suffer from prion diseases (and CWD is the opposite -- prion disease with rare cannibalism).