- cross-posted to:
- vegan@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- vegan@lemmy.world
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.
“I always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Haha I’m in danger.
You can say it as a joke, but Ive got dairy cows…
Good luck now that you’ve said that. You’re going to be savaged by a certain type of vegan in PM. I was spammed by one this morning and I didn’t even mention animal products recently as far as I know.
(There are decent vegans, but then there are the asshole type who feel like they can berate and harass people into veganism.)
Oh yeah, getting told that you rape cows
I was once told that I was participating in “bee slavery” by consuming honey.
Because, you know, bees wouldn’t make honey unless we enslaved them to do so.
Trade offer: I provide you with housing in exchange for some of your honey
Hell, as a human I’ll take that deal. When can I move in?
My partner keeps saying we can’t get a beehive, I think a humanhive would be asking for too much.
Its funny. No one criticized me for owning cows. At all. The woodwork was empty. I get that there are militant assholes here, but every time i bring up my profession, things have been cordial.
We can all disagree on a lot of things, but the average vegan is not my enemy. Ive even given some tours of my facilities. Its just someone that thinks different thsn i do. Thats perfectly fine.
Good discourse and an open mind is all it takes. I eat vegan meals frequently. I also eat steaks and eggs and fish. I will never be the one to shut down sincere discourse. We all have to live in this world together. May as well learn from other perspectives.
I’m honestly surprised by that. Those types of vegans give me shit because I do not eat meat but I will have dairy. I am under a dietician’s care and she has it as part of my nutritional regimen but it doesn’t even matter to them when I tell them that I could literally starve if I don’t follow her instructions since that’s exactly what was happening before I met with her.
Squids are carnivores, and you’re an anthromorphic squid. I can see why a vegan would be upset.
I treat the militant vegans exactly like I treat MAGAs. i.e. I completely ignore them when they start their bullshit.
Try instead asking innocent probing questions that lead them to question their world view. They’ll never agree with you if they feel like they’re under attack, but if you seem curious and interested, and ask difficult questions they could come around over time.
Or you know, fuck em they made their bed. Either way.
Wait what? What would make a vegan change their worldview? Uhm bacon actually good, ever thought about that?
I feel a bit bad for the normal vegans actually because they likely want to avoid even mentioning it do to the other type.
You have to talk about it when ordering food or buying items.
I do too. There are plenty of decent vegans who are afraid to even open their mouths and make gentle suggestions.
Never been happier to be a vegetarian incapable of processing milk.
Edit: to be clear, I’m poking fun at your upcoming bankruptcy over a simple dinner of milk steak and jellybeans.
Pasteurization is done for a reason.
That won’t make it any cheaper when it follows the price of eggs
It’s tragic that people have already killed their cats with raw milk (and some cat food), apparently. I’m sure Brainworms will be looking out for everyone’s pets, too…
Shame that’s not how this virus works with it’s concern of jumping from avians and mammals, including humans.
That is one concern, if it’s also resulting in a lot of livestock being killed off that will now impact food prices of more than just eggs.
Being able to eat meat doesn’t mean you have to. Something that (perhaps slightly irrationally) annoys me about some people. They act as if a meal requires meat and then complain at how expensive food is to buy. Laughs in omnivore £15/week each diet. But by not being actually vegetarian I can still have things like Worcestershire sauce too.
Yeah and its annoying the vegans that are so militant they discourage meat reduction in diets. Beef is so much worse (both health and environment) than most other meats that getting a large amount of folks to give up or massively reduce beef consumption is way better than a much smaller number becoming vegan.
Just look at /r/vegan, even if you don’t eat/use animal products you are still not a vegan unless its for their specific reasons. If you do it for environmental reasons they decide you don’t count as a vegan.
I have to have whole milk and other dairy as part of my nutritional regimen as worked out by a professional dietician, so I’m glad I’m not in America right now.
Depression diet is coming and meat won’t be on the menu.
It’s ok. I still got my emergency rum ham.
Good thing beef was already so cheap
We need to figure out a way to turn beef into eggs so all the culled cows can make egg prices lower… 🤔
Nothing to worry about here, folks!
I’m sure donvict has things well in hand with the likes of Brainworms running things. And I’m sure whoever Kamala would have put in would have been just as bad, because I keep hearing they are the same.
Waiting for the next pandemic to really turn this year into a real shit fiesta.
Silver lining though is more work from home for most people!
