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[–] 48 points 4 months ago (30 children)

My step-dad got bit by one of these. He can only eat chicken now and it sucks.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's so scary that a bite from something the size of a pea can drastically change your life... Does he remember when being bitten and how long it took him to start having side effects?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    huh. i know a dude who got bitten by one and he's had to swear off all meat products, even poultry and fish. he was in cooking school learning vegan cookery when i met him.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I have heard mixed things about specific meats, but the guy I met was similarly vegan. He made it sound like he just wasn't willing to experiment again. I think he got pretty sick. He was young too like thirty maybe.

    I was raised believing I had to eat a bunch of meat, so I can totally see someone gagging down some chicken because they didn't know what else to eat.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    yeah, like even if it was just temporary props to the dude for going back to school (!) to learn vegan cooking in Texas of all places. Self-interest is the initial motivator behind a lot of things that end up helping a lot of other people.

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  • [+] [S] 0 points 4 months ago (22 children)
  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (21 children)

    Yeah, it's becoming more common as the carrier ticks are able to expand due to climate change and more people are outdoors. There isn't a good solution/treatment yet either, and it effects people differently. For some it's a 3 month allergy, for many, it's permanent.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (17 children)

    Stay inside or douse yourself with cancer chemical bug spray

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (15 children)

    Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen

    almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about "carcinogens" and youll be so much happier

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Yes it does. But thats also a strawman used by large corpos to pour Roundup into our groundwater. Well guess what, we are paying for it now.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    it just says that monsanto is gonna pay money to people with non hodgkin lymphoma, that are allegedly affected by roundup

    wheres the groundwater? what if they just overused bug/weed spray with lot of other factors?

    and also theres occupational hazards

    of course the workers are gonna get cancer when exposed to a TON of it 8 hours a day 5 days a week

    thats why PPE exists

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    you are an unhelpful walrus. do better my guy

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    100% better off not worrying what causes cancer BUT that doesn't mean you shouldn't stop try to actively prevent the odds of it happening like wearing sunscreen, using tick protection OFF Bug Spray (has 25% Deet) or grilling your food on a propane grill.

    Of course the obvious not smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and avoiding ultra proccessed foods but in the US there's at least one of the three in use at all times so... fart noise

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I would kill myself if I couldn't eat meat anymore, that or opt for a feeding tube and using up my insurance in a psych ward.

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