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[–] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

yep, it's possible. It's called the "Lone Star" tick

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    "Theirs only one man who would DARE give me the rasberry. LONE STAR"

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Go figure that a tick with a name reminiscent of Texas would make you unable to enjoy a steak.

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

    Well, it's expanding its reach because of climate change. Same with armadillos.

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

    Ironically they mostly live in and around Texas.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

    There's been an entire ass radiolab on this one since a decade ago:

    https://radiolab.org/podcast/alpha-gal

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Imo I think these ticks are cooking and we should breed them and release them into high beef consumption districts.

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

    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?"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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:

    shitpost

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

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    and ticks that can paralyze you.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    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.

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

    Unleash a possum army into the forest

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

    Somewhere there is a vegan breeding these ticks and laughing maniacally.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    It’s been decades in planning by Big Vegan

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    My wife loves beef but if she ever stopped eating it, I would call her my Alpha Gal

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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!

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

    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.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (22 children)

    Fortunately you're healthier when you don't eat dead animals

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The world would improve greatly if vegan or vegetarian food had better marketing around quick and easy prep time.

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    I know the meals are out there. We just need people to dedicate their time online to astroturfing shared spaces with vege propaganda

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That's the problem: the public doesn't need to put in any extra effort to keep the status quo. They don't need to look on a hard to find blog or something. People need to get socially engineered/psyopped/astroturfed into discovering better meals.

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  • [+] [S] 5 points 4 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Are they not dead when you cook them?

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  • [+] [S] -1 points 4 months ago* (8 children)
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] -10 points 4 months ago* (6 children)
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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