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.
Haha, we’re fucked. Can I get a George Bush second plane meme?
Don’t worry folks! Trumps and Muskie are putting the best people in charge. Just the best. We’re all going to be fine.
These are woke DEI cows! We’re going to put a stop to regulations and vaccines! Bird flu is far left radical fake news. We’re gonna put tariffs on the farmers, and force white women to marry incels and have babies in response. This will surely fix things.
Please stop animal agriculture.
But I really hate sitting in a tree stand in the winter
This strain has a reservoir in wild birds
Caused by animal agriculture. It jumps to wild humans too…because of animal agriculture
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 actually kind of like it when someone on here goes out of their way to be a dick, because then I can find the users I want to slap user tags on easier.
Squids are carnivores, and you’re an anthromorphic squid. I can see why a vegan would be upset.
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.
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!
Cute that you think corporate Amerika will let people work from home again. If there is a pandemic you will never know about it because that will make red line go down.
There will be no lockdown, there will be no mandate, there will only be you continuing to go to work at usual with no protection or workers rights. Your only defense will be your immune system. If you get sick then it’s Gods will it for you to die since you were “too weak to survive.” An AZ senator put up a bill already to disband OSHA.
Remember, a smaller population is easier to control
Why the fuck do you think he pulled the US out of WHO and has practically dismantled and muzzled the CDC?
With this administration? Very unlikely.
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.
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.
but where did you get those? because i’ve found some LCA meta “studies” that i don’t trust which are usually the ones trotted out. i was hoping you had good data sources.
Pasteurization is done for a reason.
That won’t make it any cheaper when it follows the price of eggs
