- 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.)
I feel a bit bad for the normal vegans actually because they likely want to avoid even mentioning it do to the other type.
I do too. There are plenty of decent vegans who are afraid to even open their mouths and make gentle suggestions.
I treat the militant vegans exactly like I treat MAGAs. i.e. I completely ignore them when they start their bullshit.
true enough of many of bullshit. Its like when you have to start writing paragraphs because of the stupidity of the arguments. I had that this morning where someone wanted to bring actions in war as an example of a lack of dignity. Well duh. Name me a dignified war. So I was like. Ok. Yeah not taking this bait.
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.
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!
Good luck even hearing about it with all forms of social media being controlled by the administration and that’s where most people get their news. You’ll just hear “oh yeah, theres a bug going around” I’m prettu sure that Tiburculoses is a lot worse than we think.
With this administration? Very unlikely.
yuppers and all transit funding comes with the rider of no mask mandates allowed. They want more babies and less adults. Somehow too many of the current adults were educated and they want to fix that societal mistake.
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.
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.
Depression diet is coming and meat won’t be on the menu.
It’s ok. I still got my emergency rum ham.
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.
Beef is so much worse (both health and environment) than most other meats
why do you think that?
because of data. water usage and calorie conversion ratio on environment and fatty foods for diet. Im not going to do a web search for you as these things are well known and don’t go into places are only good for grazing or such as im talking reduction and not elimination. Just note Im only going to give so much effort toward any questions you want to pose as again this is not super controversial or hard to find information.
because of data
what data?
water usage and calorie conversion ratio on environment and fatty foods for diet.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Yup. Its to late now but for a week or few chicken meat prices were down and given the timing im almost sure if was from flocks being culled.
Umm … when chickens are killed because of an outbreak the carcasses are buried. It is illegal to butcher or sell any type of meat that’s part of a disease outbreak, whether it’s BSE in cattle or bird flu in poultry.
what happens is farms inside a certain area area that exactly is what happens but farms just outside the area that don’t have to kill their flocks realize that area may increase. Basically that they are in a danger zone. So you can slaughter and get the meat price right away or just thin your heard to reduce the chance of spreadage. Im not really sure the details but this is generally what I have been lead to believe happens and the chicken prices we saw for a week or few (can’t remember how long but it was at least two weeks) was 99 cent a pound breast which we have not seen for years around here. An interesting thing about it to is that it was not fraken chicken which also made me suspect its from egg layers. I know we had farms get nuked in the area.
I would absolutely make use of that with my freezer. And complain to my partner that we don’t have a chest freezer in the place one should obviously go.
we have two so that we can clean and thaw one once a year and of course also to store more.
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… 🤔
