Yes but would you buy food that was "no longer" diseased or "never" diseased. (Mr Red)

There may be lots of reasons not to eat our fellow creatures, but the fact that they have had a few bouts of illness in their life and recovered aren't among them.

If I ever run up against cannibals, I hope they are as squeamish and consumerist as Mr Red assumes the rest of us are. "Honest, I can prove it - I had flu last winter. You don't want to eat me!" (After all, if I caught foot and mouth, the symptoms would be very similar to those in a moderate bout of flu.)