FEED spoiler party!

I also am curious about large bird farming, although it's my understanding that at least ostriches are unintelligent enough to require a lot of care, and if most people are scared to eat something as safe as chicken, it might not be an economic industry.

It also occurs that irradiated food should be safe, since irradiation kills pretty much everything, unless the proteins from live virus 'activate' non-live KA. In that case, it would be as hard to disinfect for KA as it is for prions.

Is the body weight limit the body mass needed for viral animation, or is it a threshold size for conversion to the 'live' virus? In the former case, dead mammals would be dangerous whatever the size, just not getting up and coming after you.

I'm assuming you haven't shown us the extent of the real conspiracy yet.
I don't think Tate was anywhere near the head of the conspiracy. A cabal that would be able to manage that kind of thing would not be putting one of their own into a presidential race, the office of the president is far too visible a position for that. I think that the religious movement that was running this plot was being supported with money and live virus by the real plotters, not because the real plotters want them in charge, but because the real plotters think they can predict and control them. Anyway, that's what I think...

Dead mammals of any size are dangerous. If a non-amplified large coyote eats a dead mouse, then the coyote's KA goes active.

That's going to really change people's response to pest mammals. Very few people currently think it's appropriate to don hazmat gear to get rid of the dead mouse/rat/squirrel in the attic.