Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
I see the vegans are escalating their tactics.
We’ll convert the bloodmouths, one way or another! The next plan is mosquitoes that make you allergic to cheese.
The condition, known as alpha-gal syndrome, has proliferated from just a few dozen known cases in 2009 to as many as 450,000 now.
Alpha-gal (galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose) is a sugar molecule found in the cells of all mammals except humans and some primatesWell, at least we can still eat each other, it seems. The rich be lookin’ mighty tasty as of late…
If it were up to me, eating the rich would be considered vegan
Well, they have no soul, no emotion, are not human, and seem to feel no pain.
Dig in.
Forget the alpha male; this is the year of alpha-gal.
Jokes aside does it impact the love of dairy and eggs too?
Dairy, but not eggs. Sufferers can still eat chicken and fish.
And humans and some other primates.
Thank god. I just discovered the magic that is pickled eggs and I refuse to give them up.
“to areas previously too cold”, huh… i wonder what happened…
The planet keeps {Chinese hoax}'ing.
Nature will always win.
Yep, don’t fuck with nature.
Meat production is a major contributor to climate change. This is almost as if nature is acting in self defense.
This year has been insane. I have pulled a dozen off my wife, myself and my child, and probably another dozen off my dog. Luckily none latched on so far.
Meat allergy? Unpleasant but ironically good for the environment.
After reading the article I hope they seek out and bite Donald Trump. Wouldn’t that be hilarious if this caused him a meat allergy?
He would starve from hamberder deficiency
He’d live way longer if he stopped eating McDonald’s
Only if statins have been invented. 40 years ago he’d have been cooked, but now the cholesterol riddled assholes live for-fucking-ever
McDonalds would have to admit that there’s actually no real fish in a filet o fish.
Unfortunately for this, the Alpha-gal allergy is only in response to mammalian proteins. Fish and birds are fine. Unless the filet o fish is secretly cat.
Yeah, Lyme Disease can potentially cause that. It’s weird they’re saying “meat allergy” and not lyme disease, but lyme is pretty bad and can cause lifelong complications (post-treatment lyme disease syndrome)Edit: guess I’m wrong
The lone star tick actually usually does not carry Lyme, you are thinking of deer ticks. This is an entirely different condition that is caused by an allergic reaction to the lone star ticks saliva which your body confuses with carbohydrates found in most mammalian meats leading to a long term meat allergy.
Maybe its Mother Nature way of making us stop consuming beef and all become vegan? I mean nature finds a way. The cattle industry is a huge contributor to climate change, so maybe this is a good thing.
Of course if this was to affect everyone, you see how quickly the government would fund a cure. Interesting novel idea…going give that a think.
There are many levels between not eating beef and going full vegan.
So it sounds like it affects far more than just being alergic to meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
I’m not sure I’d call that syndrome a good thing and I’m not sure I’d wish it on anyone.
It wouldnt be pushing people to veganism, considering there are plenty of animal products you could consume even if youre allergic to meat.
Also there are a lot more types of meat than beef. I eat meat often and hardly ever eat any beef
Also there are a lot more types of meat than beef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
The alpha-gal molecule is found in all mammals except catarrhines (apes and Old World monkeys), the taxonomic branch that includes humans.
Sounds like you could still eat fish, human and chicken (and other bird) meat as usual.
Bring on the lizard meat
You jest, but I can assure you that alligator is delicious.
That why nature gave us birdflu. So take chicken off the menu as well. That just leaves apes and ourselves.
It’s like nature is telling us to switch to a seafood and the rich only diet.
Not, entirely correct. Alpha-gal syndrome is not a meat allergy. Gelatin, Glycerin and Magnesium stearate all contain high levels of it and are found in products as diverse as makeup, candy, shampoo, vape juice, energy drinks and toothpaste. High levels of alpha-gal are found in Milk and Milk products. All mammalian meat, organ meat, lipids and derived products. You check labels for the rest of your life if you have this and you’ll probably still come into contact with it out in the wild. You get Fish, Eggs and poultry. That’s only guaranteed if you buy the meat on its own, free from seasoning and cross-contamination. You don’t eat in a restaurant anymore, unless it’s sushi.
My wife has had to follow a low FODMAP and gluten free diet for the last 6ish years. It’s miserable and I wouldn’t wish such a vast allergy as this on anyone. I know there are plenty of haughty taughty vegans in this thread making jest, but these kinds of allergies fucking suck and I guarantee vegans consume shit that has these compounds without even realizing, since like you said, it exists in far more than just basic meat-based foods.
It works against dairy, too
As an act of revenge on the ticks, we will switch to insect protein.
It’s certainly the strongest argument for gaia hypothesis in decades
Oh I think that a solid theory. Maybe why we are busy killing ourselves off. Maybe Gaia knows us humans are the major problem with all the shit going on and wired us to kill ourselves off.
We’re wired to kill ourselves off. She’s just sick of us fucking up the environment with industrial farming methods.
Add in birdflu and man we could see a new era of man kind all being vegetarian. Btw I was working on a novel that contains birdflu and found a way to incorporate this into it.
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They don’t refer to it as Lyme because it’s a different issue. It just happens to also be spread by ticks. Lyme disease and Alpha-gal Syndrome are different things but are sometimes comorbities since both are commonly spread by ticks.
If you bothered to read the article, you’d have known this was Alpa-gal Syndrome, not Lyme.
lyme is caused by deer ticks and its a bacterial spirochetes, theres actually a whole cult against chronic lyme which is a pseudoscientific belief thats incurable.
Not only the environment, the overall Americans health too. Each year, 700 000 Americans are dying from heart diseases.
heart diseases
There’s more than one? Is this like Second Breakfast?
It would be way easier to be a cardiologist if there were only one.
Of course not, next thing you’ll say is that there’s more than one type of cancer!
Yes. Yes it is.
But I’m made of meat!
Vegans:
Honestly, I feel like this is a big fuck you from mother nature, telling us that our industrial farming practices, that are contributing so heavily to climate change, are now worth fuck all. And I am very much not a vegan.
You could join us before the ticks make you :)
Ticks can give you fuckers shitty diseases too, so hop off your soapbox buddy.
Yeah, but all ticks can do that. The “meat allergy ones” are a species that is only moving now because of climate change, which in no small part is also caused by emissions from factory farming.
I knew they were behind this.
Vegans are so damned annoying. They’re worse than the ticks.
Go eat some carrion, you will fell better
Bruh, I see more meat-eaters following and actively commenting on vegan pages and forums than vegans being annoying lol
Can confirm IRL, too. I’m not vegan, but vegetarian. Cannot tell you how many rather stupid conversations I’ve had (initiated by omnivores that discover I’m vegetarian, which I don’t exactly advertise, but obviously there are times it comes up if you are sharing a meal at work, or with friends/relatives and so on).
That’s even with me not really having any desire to proselytize or anything. It’d be one thing if I was upping the ante in response. But there is a certain kind of omnivore that seem to be deeply triggered by the existence of veg*ns. I mean, it really really seems to bother them.
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“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”
Well, that’s a horrifying image.
Took us vegans a long time, but after hours in our labs we finally are ready to roll out our bio weapon.
Damn you, vegans! I’ll see you in hell!
Shakes fist angrily while collapsing from my simultaneous asphyxiation and heart failure.
And prion diseases.
Yes please! They have good music in hell. Also, in heaven there are only Christian Karens, pedophiles and antivax babies, you know how fucking annoying all those screaming babies are. And then complaining Karens on top of that.
Our insect creations acting like over-sized nano-bytes, go forth my children, save the planet.
NOOOOOOOOO!
Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.
Yeah we just need to proliferate wild guinea hens and other tick predators to knock their populations down. I’d rather the entire eastern US look like Kauai (random feral poultry) than have ticks take over.
Opossum are native, eat ticks and do not carry rabies. They are heros!
Maybe… but there were so many examples of disastrous consequences for introducing a non native species to control a pest (biological pest control), like thr cane toad in Australia, or ferrets in New Zealand, etc…
“When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death”
So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?
One of my friends got hit with this. They will have a violent allergic reaction even if they eat fries cooked in beef fat.
What kind of maniac cooks fries in beef fat?
That sounds like a recipe for cardiac arrest.
McDonald’s
Steak n’ Shake
That’s actually extremely common. Belgian fries (the original French fries) are originally cooked in beef fat. But nowadays it’s often a beef/plant based fat mix instead. It’s actually quite hard to find vegan fries in Belgium.
The alt right health grifter sphere is currently obsessed with the evils of “seed oils.” Tallow is supposed to be magically better for you.
A couple of steps away from the raw milk drinkers and the “rebel canners.”
McDonald’s does, assuming they haven’t changed that recently.
McDonalds’s hasn’t done this in over 30 years. Unless you think 30 years is recent?
I’ve been told that more recently than the 2000s, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t really do much research into it. Sorry that I offended you by being wrong.
McDonald’s stopped using beef tallow for fries in 1990. I suppose that might be relatively recent if you are an elf.
That confirms the maniac assessment. Look at this guy:
Ronald has quite the theme song, too…
Well, the upside is less meat consumption is good for the environment I guess.
The syndrome is not caused by a pathogen but spurs an allergy to a sugar molecule found in mammals and an array of other things, from toothpaste to medical equipment.
Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.
A particular horror is the prospect of brushing up against vegetation containing a massed ball of juvenile lone star ticks, know as a “tick bomb”, that can deliver thousands of tick bites. “They are so tiny you can’t see them but you have to take it seriously or you’ll never get them off you,” said Forsyth, who now carries around a lint roller to remove such clusters.
thats fucking terrifying. imma stay inside
Many years ago my dog brought in a tic bomb, and got into bed with me. I awoke to my left arm and hand covered in so many sesema seed sized tics I could not even see my skin.
It took hours to get them off me and my dog.
I dodged a bullet cause I didn’t get any illnesses, nor did my dog.
I’m still freaked out though.
I wonder if the tick bomb babies are less likely to transmit anything because they probably haven’t fed on anything yet? I would think they’d have to feed on a mammal to get the compound into their saliva.
Straight nightmare fuel, Jesus Christ mate…
This happened to me once (with deer ticks, not lone star) while I was having a nice walk in the woods high on shrooms. Worst trip of my life.
Why did I read this in bed
😱 😱 😱 !
Funny, humanity contributing to the reduction of the climate crisis by increasing the number of ticks causing people to become allergic to meat, meaning less demand for meat, meaning less greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere as cattle becomes less profitable.
Life, uh, finds a way.
