No Matter What, You're Drinking Worm

“Just because you don’t swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn’t mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to scientists from the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) at the University of Guelph. They have discovered that the liquid itself contains the DNA of the [mescal worm]… As part of a study to test their theory that DNA from a preserved specimen can leak into its preservative liquid, the BIO team tested a sample of liquid from a bottle of Monte Alban brand mescal. The liquor was found to contain [mescal worm family] DNA.” This is probably also true of the major works of Damien Hirst, so, you know, don’t drink those.