Cows aren’t birds, stupid.
And therein lies the issue.
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?
Don’t mess with Texas, also don’t visit Texas or eat anything Texas produces.
Good thing there’s nothing astronomical happening in Texas next week that only happens once every decade or so in the US, which people might flock to Texas to stand in crowds to see before dispersing back home across the Southern US. 😅
The eclipse is happening in more places than Texas.
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.
I didn’t realise bird flu wasn’t transmitted between humans already tbh. I caught Swine flu (H1N1) from another human a decade or so ago.
It was already, but not from another mamal. Birds infecting individuals is not the problem, we kill a few millions (58 since 2022 in the states alone) birds to prevent the spread, a few hundred humans get sick, all is well. From mamal to another mamal is the problem, once it goes from human to human its over.
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 has been seized by the SCP foundation.
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.
Surely it only contains what was put into it though. If the cow eats food then it must have metabolized that food. Then you eat the cow.
So basically cows are an inefficient way to turn grass into calories. But since there are other plant foods we can actually eat that isn’t much of an argument.
Many reasons but this could have been avoided of they culled the whole beec supply when it was first detected
How wasteful
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 you’re against it on the basis that it’s unpleasant.
That’s not a logical position that’s just an emotional one. Just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean that it isn’t the correct answer. Also I don’t think they need our help, they’re perfectly capable of culling the animals on their own, since they already do, The cows are food stock after all.
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
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.
Hold on tight, here it cooooooommmnmeeeeessssss!!!
Oh no.
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.
We need to nuke Texas from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure we stop the spread.
Whaaat? A disease stemming from our exploitation of animals?? Surely that is something new and never heard of before!
Now, when you say “in contact”…
Someone gave this flu the wrong name.
…in bed
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.
Influenza is a type of virus, completely unrelated to coronavirus. And COVID-19 originated in bats, not pangolins.
It’s because they’re infected with avian influenza and ‘cow flu’ doesn’t exist afaik.
