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Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding
(www.theguardian.com)
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Bird flu for the meats, tariffs for everything else (and probably affecting meats as well). I wonder how this will affect our food supply during Great Depression II compared to the dust bowl and tariffs in the first one.
Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump's attention...
I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.
And now this is going to make that harder.
The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?
Eat fish like the Japanese do. They live the longest for a reason.
The Okinawans, in particular, are known for their longevity. Their traditional diet is largely vegetarian.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/okinawa-diet#the-diet
The traditional Okinawa diet is low in calories and fat while high in carbs. It emphasizes vegetables and soy products alongside occasional — and small — amounts of noodles, rice, pork, and fish.
counter argument: taco rice and spam isn't actually healthy, but lying about obachan being dead so you can keep pocketing her pension means you can buy more chu-hai.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/530073/scientist-snares-ig-noble-gong-for-work-debunking-blue-zones
I've read that the healthiest amount of meat is around one serving a week.
For sure! In before the bird flu spreads to fish somehow…
Can you do fish or pork? Those two don't seem to be effected
Yep! But I add ghee to the fish because it’s too lean.
My complaint is mostly due to the threat of dwindling variety. And beef is my favorite.
Ah, find a local farmer, buy a full cows cut asap before the price spikes, toss the 500lbs of beef in a deep freezer. Bam profit?
Aw shit, here we go again.
Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump's current term.
Conspiracy theorists will go "isn't it weird there's always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/"The Regime" controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?"
Couldn't possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics...
When it's in California, it's "God's wrath", when it's under Trump, it's "just a thing that happens, nothing to be done."
I hope it will be called "Trump plague" or something this time around.
"Trump Flu 2" to emphasize this is happening AGAIN
Good.
Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk ...
Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.
Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.
The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.
But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.
Yes it can be and the problem is these idiots are also gonna give that milk to their children. Who don’t deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents.
There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.
And cats dying of it after drinking raw milk and eating raw food products.
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It's weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
What's next? Surely these people wouldn't be dumb enough to drink bleach.
I'm kind of ok with that.
It'd be fine if they were just endangering themselves, but the most likely way we get a more virulent bird flu strain is one of these idiots catching in while they also have the regular flu
And then refusing to isolate or wear a mask. While being unvaccinated.
They're basically dirty people.
I wouldn't be surprised if they started refusing to ever wash their hands.
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It seems so. I've been buying ultra-pasteurized which may be sufficient.
Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.
Think about how many cats aren’t being reported.
Like, if my cat drops dead I’m just burying her. No one would ever know.
If the 5 strays that hang outside my apartment died of it I’d just bury them too. No one would have a clue.
Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that's exposure or first symptoms). So, you're not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don't know why, and just bury it.
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RIP NYC
The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.
Down, right?
Down, right?
See, if you bury your head in the sand, the virus can't get you
Well, ya know, it's primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren't likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won't have to worry about the flu.
This is the kind of outside the box thinking that makes this nation great.
Well, inside the sand thinking.
Thanks Mr. President, mission accomplished (you can golf now we got this)
Maybe it will get people to start drinking plant based milk if the price of course milk skyrockets like it has with eggs. All the IGF-1 in dairy isn't good for you and could even be part of the reason for the rise in colorectal cancer (the amount of dairy we consume nowadays in nuts).
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Just do this:
- stop testing,
- stick a lightbulb up their rear
- put some horse paste in their feed
- disinfectant in their water
- ???
- Profit
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