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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•9 months agoWasn’t there a disease going around that made people sick when eating red meat?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•9 months agoIt’s from a tick bite, not something we can spread to one another.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoare you suggesting tick-born illness has been weaponized by…? what, the soy milk mafia? do you have any idea how staggeringly, mind-numbingly stupid that sounds?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoNot OP, but since it is feasible, it sounds like it would make a decent movie. I’m thinking something like Red Dawn or an eco-terrorist plot.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoAre… you stoned? I do have to admit I thought about how vegans would love an airborne version. I read too much science fiction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoPeople would just move to poultry, which I suspect would be worse to ethical vegans.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•9 months agoTick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.
minus-squareSuiXi3Dlinkfedilink8•9 months agoThere’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoNot always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don’t have a ton of data. But I’m often full of shit! Look it up yourself.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•9 months agoYou are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don’t hold it against yourself!
minus-squareRemmocklinkfedilink6•9 months agoFor a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoYep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink3•edit-29 months agoAlpha-gal syndrome. It’s not that common that it will affect entire populations.
Wasn’t there a disease going around that made people sick when eating red meat?
It’s from a tick bite, not something we can spread to one another.
Not even by biting and sucking each other’s blood?
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are you suggesting tick-born illness has been weaponized by…? what, the soy milk mafia?
do you have any idea how staggeringly, mind-numbingly stupid that sounds?
Not OP, but since it is feasible, it sounds like it would make a decent movie. I’m thinking something like Red Dawn or an eco-terrorist plot.
Are… you stoned? I do have to admit I thought about how vegans would love an airborne version. I read too much science fiction.
People would just move to poultry, which I suspect would be worse to ethical vegans.
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Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.
There’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.
Not always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don’t have a ton of data.
But I’m often full of shit! Look it up yourself.
You are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don’t hold it against yourself!
For a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.
Yep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.
Alpha-gal syndrome. It’s not that common that it will affect entire populations.
Alpha gal syndrome sounds like a compliment
tick bites