‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis

www.theguardian.com ‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

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Remember non vegans, your lust for meat and the resulting impact on the climate will eventually force you to stop eating meat. You played yourselves.
- Remember non vegans, your lust for meat and the resulting impact on the climate will eventually force you to stop eating meat. You played yourselves.
  FYI: This ☝️. This is why people don't like vegans. It has nothing to do with your dietary choices or choosing to not use or consume products derived from animals - seriously, no one gives a shit; you do you. It has everything to do with the militantly self-righteous, condescending, preachy, holier-than-thou attitude, the constant proselytizing, and the demonizing/name-calling/general shitty behavior that comes with the former.
  Sincerely,
  A vegetarian who doesn't make it my whole personality
  Edit: Every single direct reply to this has further illustrated the point I was making. Maybe instead of being preachy and condescending, you just lead by good example. If people see and want what you have they'll follow. Otherwise, you're just shooting your own cause in the foot with your abominable behavior.
  
  bohoo stop blaming our consumer habits that are destroying the planet
  
  This 🙌
  
  Good thing I don't care what carnists (including vegetarians) think of me 🤷🏻‍♀️
  
  Not everyone can afford to be vegan yknow?
  So why don't you get off your high horse privileged ass and consider that this vegetarian person is obviously trying to mitigate some damage by not eating meat.
  
  Found the pick-me vegetarian.
  
  People hold strong, defensive opinions about all kinds of things, funny how you don’t react this way to those too.
  It’s pure carnism defense mechanisms in action. If you ever wonder how MAGA supporters can be so detached from reality, remember you’re doing the same thing.
  The truly self-righteous position is thinking you have a right to their bodies.
  
  Isn't similarly militant and self-righteous when someone feels this way about trans rights or abolishing slavery?
  
  comparing slaves and trans people to animals is gross.
  
  Why?
  
  it's how people justify slavery
  
  But my point is that animals should not be treated "like animals" either. They should be included in the social contract and afforded a basic minimum of respect and autonomy, not enslaved and exploited.
  
  treating animals like animals is absolutely appropriate
  
  I put the phrase in quotes to indicate the meaning of treating someone poorly. Treating animals poorly is not appropriate.
  
  opinions will vary on what constitutes poor treatment of an animal, but i think everyone would agree that "Treating animals poorly is not appropriate."
  
  Nooooo. I have to reduce veganism to a dietary preference instead of a rights movement so it's easier to dismiss it because a vegan was annoying or whatever one time!
  
  While i understand that it is human nature to not want to listen to people who are talking down to you, or who say things that make you feel bad about yourself and your choices, i don't think "someone made me feel bad so I'm going to continue to destroy the planet" is a valid excuse to avoid reflecting on personal habits and their consequences.
  But it's a good reminder in how to speak to people. If youre dealing with someone in the maga cult you could try to say 1 liners at them but you probably aren't going to get them to actually listen to you. Same applies to trying to talk to omnivores or vegetarians
  
  Always an excuse...
- Remember vegans, we will just harvest it from cloned meat.
  
  Remember non vegans, cloned meat will trigger your nearly acquired meat allergy the same as hoof-grown meat. It is, after all, meat.
  
  More likely that those with an allergy can pay more to eat specific lab grown meat that doesn’t trigger the allergy.
  Since it’s already happened
  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/alpha-gal-syndrome-tick-meat-allergy/629649/
  Since last fall, Revivicor has been quietly sending refrigerated packages of alpha-gal-free bacon, ham, ground pork, chops, and pork shoulders to people in the alpha-gal-syndrome community. These packages were free, but Revivicor has told the FDA it is exploring a mail-order business. And so a biomedical company has found itself an accidental purveyor of specialty pork products.
  
  If this lab grown "meat" can be created in petri dishes or whatever without animal exploitation and suffering then it will be vegan by definition.
  Edit: Ah it's not lab grown meat but genetically altered animals that they farm. :/
  
  People will eat insects rather than stop fucking with animals. The lengths y’all go to are insane.
  
  Insects are animals
  
  I think that is what they are saying. People would rather eat insects, which are animals, rather than just go vegan
  
  You'd rather eat a bean with 6 pairs of legs instead of a bean with no legs?
  the "insect farming" idea is mostly hype to get subsidies, as the demand is absent, the subsidized insect farming will just end up as concentrated feed for the usual vertebrate animal farming operations.
  
  I wasn't commenting my opinion at all, actually
  
  Are you not
  People
  ?
  
  I said that the other person was saying that. I did not provide an opinion on eating insects.