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This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

www.vox.com This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

Why cases of alpha-gal syndrome are on the rise.

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Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.

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- There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It's disproportionate from my experience in person.
  
  I wonder if it means anything.
  
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  Lemmy's userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.
  
  So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.
  
  Disclaimer: I eat meat
  
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  The average lemmy user is more educated and empathetic to the impact of the industrial meat industry than the average person?
  
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  We're all ticks here
  
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  Meh. I’m not vegan. I just thought it was an interesting connection. Possibly another example of nature fighting back.
  
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  Lemmy is a foss anti-coporate project, what kind of demographics do you expect to see here ?
  
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  Lemmy is a vegan trans leftist echo chamber
  
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- I suppose. but I worry about those who cannot biologically process a vegetarian diet no matter the supplements they take. If they get bitten by the tick, they're fucked
  
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  You'd have to be pretty damn unlucky to not only have one rare condition affecting your diet, but also get bitten by the makes-you-vegetarian-bug
  
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  I do hate that this is downvoted as your comment seems to have been targeted out of rash and inflammatory reaction to your comment
  
  Your comment is logical and I believe people who don't choose to be vеgаn shouldn't be forced into it
  
  I'd hoped this response to comments would have stayed on reddit but apparently not
  
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  That's a thing? I mean, non-meat products are... well, an absolute fuckton. Obviously I know there's stuff like gluten or fructose intolerance, allergies, etc.,but the spectrum of "things that aren't meat" just seems too large for somebody to be incapable to live without it. Like, you would have to be absolute stacked with rare medical issues affecting your dietary options.
  
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- Ecoterrorists finally figured it out.
  
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Ticks are terrible; creepy just as little things that get on you, but then they also carry all sorts of diseases which really drives up the paranoia after every hike

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- Read anything about Lyme disease and you’ll never feel safe again.
  
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A friend of mine got this. It took forever to pin down what was wrong (basically it was like having IBS but didn’t know why). After learning about it he asked his doctor to test for it and they were like “lol, no way but sure okay” and lo and behold..

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- What did they test for, exactly? Meat allergy?
  
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  Yes, you can test for antibodies that indicate what allergies you have.
  
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I'm deathly allergic to chicken, turkey, tuna, ham, and a few other meats randomly. Life is so shit now. They hide meat products in literally everything. It's FUCKED.

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- I don't think I've ever seen meat being hidden in stuff. Milk, though? Fucking everywhere. Just 1% milk powder in everything so they can get those dairy subsidies.
  
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  Meat derivatives are in a lot of products. Seasonings, sauces, etc. can hide a lot of those. You can order like a teriyaki tofu dish, for example, and most of the time you'll be fine. But you'll eventually run into a variety here and there that uses dashi or oyster sauce in the ingredients. Or you get kimchi and have to worry about the same thing with fish sauce. You get a bag of BBQ potato chips, there's a chance it contains chicken. Order a cheese pizza, the sauce may still contain tiny bits of sausage. Even a vegetable soup may still use beef or chicken stock.
  
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This happened to me about 5 years ago. Wasn’t too bad. Just had hives and awful gut pain. Enough to make you not want it but nothing life threatening.

Since I’ve figured it out, I’ve had beef or pork accidentally maybe two or three times. Feel awful for about a day.

I don’t miss red meat too much. Thinking about going full vegetarian.

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- Man fuck that. I eat veggietarian pretty often but i love the occasional burger or steak.
  
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- I have it. It took years to get diagnosed and it was making me SICK. I’ve had reactions from breathing the air where they’re cooking meat. It’s no joke
  
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Vegans: "Write that down! Write that down!"

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- An ex of mine was a vegetarian, and when she heard about Lonestar ticks, she said it would sure be funny if she put one on me so I would have to be a vegetarian too. That was the moment she became an ex.
  
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Huge methane emissions reduction thanks to a little tick

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- And we'd still have poultry and fish in the end.
  
  Not the worst thing that a tick could be spreading at all.
  
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  Considering it usually coincides with Lyme disease, I'd say it's still pretty damn bad
  
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This species is also suspected to carry a spirochete bacteria in the same genus as Lyme disease bacteria. It’s symptoms are very similar to Lyme. The infection is named STARI, short for Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness. My spouse got it in 2010 and has never been the same since.

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Vegans: How can i learn this power?

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Praxis

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Everybody gangsta until Texans become allergic to BBQs

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