The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.
We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.
I mean this isn’t even a carnist thing in as much as this is just a “MUH RIGHT TO PUT MYSELF AND ALL OF HUMANITY AT MASSIVE RISK” thing
Big “no one is going to tell me not to drink my own piss” energy
so a carnist thing basically