• Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 days

    “Red meat” is annoyingly misleading.

    It’s anything with alpha-gal, including a lot of medications and vegan ingredients. This isn’t “exciting” or “ethical.” To anyone excited about this (as I’ve seen in many threads regarding this) - push regulations on industries if you want animal ethics but don’t celebrate life-threatening allergies; you come off as a dick.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 hours

      Yeah some Vegan Pro-Lifers are pretty short sighted liked that. I mean I get it they think it’s like murder murder, but it’s also super ineffective to be so hostile. Even more when it’s so hostile as to think an uncontrolled pandemic is on your side …

    • tehn00bi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      I lived in an area affected by alpha gal ticks. I personally knew several people affected by it. There is nothing nice about this.

      • vinnymac@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        If Trump just happened to find one of these ticks embedded in him, I wouldn’t be upset about it. I might even have a BBQ and invite him

    • protist@retrofed.comEnglish
      2 days

      I’ve read that since alpha-gal is found in the skin cells of cats and dogs, it can even cause severe respiratory allergies around pets

    • neuroneiro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 days

      Where can I learn more about which medications & vegan food or clothing are affected?

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1 day

      I’m definitely not one of those, but kind of playing devil’s advocate, you have to acknowledge that the more people there are who can’t/won’t take certain meds/ingredients, the more pressure there is on the industry to make alternatives, and this could be a genuine silver lining in an otherwise really shitty situation.

      The whole gluten-free craze created a ton of market pressure to produce good, tasty gluten-free foods. This was genuinely fantastic for people with coeliac disease, suddenly there’s a ton of options for them to eat at mainstream places! The gluten-free movement (no pun intended) may have been dumb, and maybe it caused some harm (did it?), but it definitely caused a significant amount of good, even if by accident.

      I know it’s not the same situation and it’s still obviously wrong to be happy with what these ticks do, but you can still take the good with the bad.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        Current markets seem happier to let poor folks suffer, unfortunately. And generic meds that are produced in countries with little regulation/oversight especially aren’t going to get magically reformulated to needed specifications if they lower profit margins. Even if there was market pressure, the medical solutions would likely be restricted to those who could afford name branded, specially formulated medications.

        • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21 hours

          At this point, the hyperich are so ungodly rich (in dollars) that it makes more sense for them to make everyone else even poorer than it does for them to acquire even more superfluous superwealth.

          Elmo’s net worth (~$900B) is set to be more than 3x the total net worth of Austin, TX ($268B). Reducing Austin’s worth by $1B has more impact and acquires him more influence than increasing his by $1B.

          Welcome to the 2020s, which are simultaneously worse than cinematic dystopias and absolutely more mundane than they are.

          I’m just grateful this pathetic excuse for a species hasn’t figured out immortality yet. If it ever does, I’ll think about permanently opting out. The only everlifers will be the hyperich while everyone else becomes disposable slave labor.

      • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        24 hours

        Living in the past. They dont make things to solve problems anymore. They make things to create problems. So, I’m assuming, people with this will just go on a list of inferior humans for culling.

  • datavoid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 day

    God damnit I hate AI, and I hate not knowing if this article was AI assisted or just written by someone who is extremely poor at pattern recognition and reading rooms.

    • protist@retrofed.comEnglish
      1 day

      You’re basing this on what? It’s bad, therefore it must be a conspiracy?

      It’s likely it existed for generations, but the cause was matched to the effect for the first time in 2002. There had been clear outbreaks prior to that where there had been no cause identified.