This is still an issue in the stable 1.02 candidate

This is still an on-going issue. Either force-feeding should only be possible in front of someone and when they're tied up/unconscious or there should be a way lesser chance of catching kuru.

A simple fix would be to make it that you have to eat a certain amount of human flesh to catch kuru, say a whole steak, so if someone manages to slip you a mouthful by sneaking, you have a chance to turn around and deal with them. Similar to the way you can eat with cholera, but too much food makes you vomit, so with eating human flesh (a whole steak gives you kuru) except the counter does not ever decrease so by the time you have eaten a whole steak, you have kuru no matter how long you leave it in between bites.

In real life you'll most likely get kuru from eating the brain, eating other parts is way less harmful. It would be easy to add a script to human meat that gives it, like, a 1 in 10 chance to carry the disease, similar like the Unknown Food Can does with salmonella (iirc?). But I agree, something like a counter that goes up with every kcal of human meat (carrying kuru) would also make sense and could actually make human meat viable for a one-time emergency situation.

@Geez has this been getting any traction within the team?

Currently, feeding someone else does not make a sound. It should make a sound just like eating