Prions are a risk when eating meat in general. BSE (mad cow) can be transmitted to humans, and there's some limited laboratory evidence that scrapie can be tran

Prions are a risk when eating meat in general. BSE (mad cow) can be transmitted to humans, and there's some limited laboratory evidence that scrapie can be transmitted cross-species, as well. Though you do raise an interesting though -- are prions going to be more or less likely (or the same) in cultured meat?