yep, it's possible. It's called the "Lone Star" tick
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My step-dad got bit by one of these. He can only eat chicken now and it sucks.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Stay inside or douse yourself with cancer chemical bug spray
Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen
almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about "carcinogens" and youll be so much happier
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.
Um, farms?
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
you are an unhelpful walrus. do better my guy
they are literally asking for more information. you are being cagey and patronizing.
do better
Sure, and the fish as well while the frogs turn gay
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
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.
Ironically they mostly live in and around Texas.
There's been an entire ass radiolab on this one since a decade ago:
it's been very well known anywhere within a few states of texas for like a decade, and it's definitely spreading. The US government needs to get it's shit together and then wipe that tick off the face of the map the same way they were handling the screw worm flys and the mosquitoes that carry west nile and the other ones that carry dengu fever.
Imo I think these ticks are cooking and we should breed them and release them into high beef consumption districts.
Put active effort into educating and making animal free food outcompete meat-based meals
Become a bioterrorist that doesn't pay mind to accidentally killing kids (and adults) who suddenly get a life ending allergic reaction when having a meal cooked or cross contaminated with any animal product
"Which way, animal ally man?"
Obviously I was being sarcastic. I don't actually believe we should be spreading ticks around, they can transmit other diseases as well. You could also get the same effect by injecting people with alpha gal.
But while we're here lets have some fun:
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Idk if they were just biting people maybe, but I can't help but wonder what effect removing carnivores would have. Education would be better.
I think the main problem is that corporate agriculture has already sidestepped the problem by creating genetically modified animals that don't have the alpha gal molecules.
If I remember correctly alpha gal isn't present in humans so our immune system can be programmed to use it as an immune target. Most mammals have the molecule present on cells so if their thymus is functioning correctly they shouldn't be able to develop an immune response to it.
Iirc there is a good follow up episode on this as well from Radiolab.
Wild that no one believed it at first. Short amount of time for this to change, eh?
A NJ man died from it the end of last year. https://apnews.com/article/ticks-alphagal-death-meat-allergy-0db604bb7419a3b3b1b7c2639e40af1f
and ticks that can paralyze you.
I got fucked up by a paralysis tick. My throat swelled to the point I almost could not breathe. Was staying with friends in a remote rural area. Emergency services said It was too far to bother sending an ambulance. My friends were given a phone number to call if I stopped breathing. They would be instructed on how to give me a tracheotomy if that happened. Luckily for me it didn't.
Unleash a possum army into the forest
Somewhere there is a vegan breeding these ticks and laughing maniacally.
They wouldnt be too smart if they were, because it's not a meat allergy, it's an alpha -galactose allergy, which is a sugar present in most mammals that people eat, but also many other foods, like carageenan, which is in many vegan products and medicine.
My wife loves beef but if she ever stopped eating it, I would call her my Alpha Gal
Yeah, a lot of people are learning about this the hard way and it appears to only be getting worse! The tick population has seen a huge "uptick" in recent years!
https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.70015
https://www.cdc.gov/alpha-gal-syndrome/data-research/products-containing-alpha-gal/index.html
My friend literally refuses to go above the Mason-Dixie line because he might get bitten by a tick and get an allergy to red meat.
plus some tick species also carry babesia in east coast, its a relative to the malaria, but milder.
Fortunately you're healthier when you don't eat dead animals
Ah yes, no concern for a poorly understood disease because its better known effect "doesn't scare me"
Where have we heard this before
The world would improve greatly if vegan or vegetarian food had better marketing around quick and easy prep time.
Carrot, meet hummus
Pasta, meet jar of tomato sauce.
See also https://thecheaplazyvegan.com/ and https://www.theveganstoner.com/
I know the meals are out there. We just need people to dedicate their time online to astroturfing shared spaces with vege propaganda
I don't know about astroturfing, but there's a ton of resources on quick and cheap vegan meals.
you find it once you start to make the effort to look for it. honestly, the first few days are tricky but it gets super easy
Are they not dead when you cook them?
My neighbors watched in horror one year when I grilled a lobster alive. They asked in terror : "Did you just put that lobster in the grill alive? I looked at them and said back: Ah yep! You buy them to kill them to eat them.
I does not really bother me. I just think it is a shame how much unnecessary suffering there is.
You could easily kill the lobster before putting it on the grill with a knife.
Not sure how putting it on alive changes anything.
I'm no raging vegan, I regularly enjoy meat of varying kinds, but dude, really?
That honestly sounds like you're inducing suffering for the sake of it, and gleefully so to boot.
That really isn't the flex you seem to think it is.
Real talk: you remember in the ninties when everyone started looking into agriculture in regards to cleanliness and not using sick animals and animal welfare?
After thirty years of ag gag laws and deregulation, that situation may not have improved.
You can eat meat if you want to. I recommend a cooking thermometer.
I'll have well cooked meat occasionally, but I am not just eating marketing. If I eat meat I know it's junk food and that it absolutely has to come to temperature.
Sort of like abstinence education, wrap it up folks you don't want to know where that thing has been.


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