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Don't mess with Texas, also don't visit Texas or eat anything Texas produces.
Don't mess with Texas. Don't mess with anything Texas produces. Don't mess with things that have messed with Texas. Avoid Texas at all costs.
Texas secession when?
Not soon enough.
Don't mess with animals. This is not a Texas problem, outbreaks have been all over the world and the animal agriculture is the perfect breeding ground. The only question is where will it develop the human to human infection feature. When it happens you can only blame others if your state or country has no animal agriculture as it could happen anywhere.
It's only got a 56% fatality rate, some of you will die but the economy must have it's workers pronto. I expect the COVID playbook will be used again, tell you it's droplets when it's airborne, push the vaccine as the solution and shove you back to work.
At least the housing crisis will be fixed
On the contrary, if another pandemic killed a bunch of people, many of their homes would be bought up by the same hungry corporations that created and perpetuate the housing crisis.
I suspect the point was that if there's more houses than people to live in them.... you do the math.
Buy toilet paper.
Whaaat? A disease stemming from our exploitation of animals?? Surely that is something new and never heard of before!
How is this vitrol adding to the discussion?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I see no problem in people sharing their reactions. It isn't necessary for every comment to advance a scholarly debate.
There is no discussion. This is going to happen again and again and people will suffer and die. Not as much and numerous as the exploited animals, but still too much.
I mean, people suffer and die from getting sick from eating produce, or from wheat or rice. I'm sure other non-animal foods too. Wasn't there deaths recently from eating cantaloupe.. and we get salmonella from wheat products.. and rice has that bacteria or something that can make you sick even if you cook it properly... There's no escaping food making us sick, even if we all went vegan.
The vast majority of those are caused by runoff contamination from animal agriculture, not from eating plants in general.
We were talking about diseases and pandemics. Which produce created a pandemic?
"Let's pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what's the worst that could happen?"
- looks around the office cubical farms *
they form a call centre?
Always seemed kinda dumb to rear animals on agriculture. Why not cut out the middleman and eat the crops directly?
Meat tastes good.
And it's a dense source of calories.
Plus, vitamin b12
You can get b12 elsewhere.
people rally against supplements without even realizing they inject B12 into the cows, which is kind of insane.
I did some googling before I commented. It doesn't have a significant caloric advantage. Triple tofu, but far less than nuts, and only a bit better than beans.
Many reasons but this could have been avoided if they culled the whole beef supply when it was first detected
genuine question, would you have signed to help with that?
Are you asking an ethical question or an employment one?
just asking if you'd volunteer to stand in blood, shit, and mud all day slashing throats. you just seem to suggest such a "solution" so readily.
So the same as a butcher, or were you disillusioned to them meeting the same fate regardless
However for a cull, slitting throats would take far too long. It’s not like we need them to be halal. For cows you would likely use poison feed (asphyxiation isn’t practical due to size) and then incinerate the bodies
because meat is mostly fat and protein and is thus calorically dense and filling, and has a bunch of nutrients that are really hard to come by in plants (eg cobalamin)
if you exclude meat (as well as eggs and dairy) from your diet, you'll absolutely need to take supplements to cover those nutrients... and they're usually made from animal byproducts anyway
like, humans are omnivores. you're supposed to eat plants and meat alike. cutting meat out might be a good choice morally (after all, what's the point of eating at all if it brings you mental anguish?) but it's not like you're physiologically a different kind after that
upd. not gonna spam replies but i wasn't talking about whether or not calorie density is good nowadays, i was just talking about why humans eat meat at all
b12 is readily available as a supplement and is synthesized from bacteria. Given that we already depend on convoluted processing pipelines for our meat, that shouldn't be a big problem. Most foodstuff is already fortified with it anyway.
With obesity becoming a big problem worldwide, shifting away from caloric dense foods would seem like the thing to do.
Cows aren't birds, stupid.
Yeah but haven't you "herd" of Buffalo wings? Touche!
It sounds like they only have eye redness, for now. How long can we expect the transformation to take?
Spitballin here, but maybe it'd even be called cow flu if it wasn't so bad for some rich people's business. That's probably just the cynicism talking, though.
The fact seems to be that many of these flu's are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It's my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but "pangolin flu" didn't seem to stick, did it?
I'd be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.
It's because they're infected with avian influenza and 'cow flu' doesn't exist afaik.
The pangolin transmission is still just a theory based on the fact that you’d have to eat way too much bat to infect yourself based on that.
The only certainty is that it was once transmitted by bats.
I couldn't find a good fucked bingo gif for this.
Hold on tight, here it cooooooommmnmeeeeessssss!!!!
We need to nuke Texas from orbit...it's the only way to be sure we stop the spread.