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"H5N1 is adapting to new mammalian hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00245-6

In case it's not clear by now, biosecurity measures either aren't being taken seriously or are useless. Considering the various responses that I've seen over the last year, with my confirmation bias of course, serious biosecurity is bad for the animal farming business short-term profit goals.

#h5n1 #birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #birdFarming #eggFarming #cowFarming #goVegan #fluHyperobject #hyperobjects

Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising

H5N1 is adapting to new mammalian hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans.

Feb 12, 2025 at 6:32pmWeb
Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶFeb 12, 2025

It's super annoying how hard it is to point out #hyperobjects

"Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00116-X/fulltext

Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶFeb 12, 2025

From the same paper mentioned above:

The authors stop at a reducetarian concept and call it "flexitarian". It doesn't have to stop at flexitarianism. The fact that animal flesh and fluids aren't necessary becomes more self-evident the less they are consumed and replaced with plant-based foods (preferably less processed).

#goVegan #avianInfluenza #birdFlu #zoonosis

Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶFeb 12, 2025

To make the hyperobject point clearer, various parasites (including viruses) exist in the world.

As human societies expand and as certain humans expand "their" living stocks, the total biomass of humans and domestic animals expands. Those are hyperobjects too!

Viruses aren't interested in individuals, viruses are interested in tissues and cells, in "biomass".

What I'm trying to say is that humans have expanded a couple of fleshy biomasses across the surface of the planet while crowding out wild ones and destroying various ecosystems.

To make a parallel with the famous quote: "as our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.",

As our biomass expands, so does the circumference of parasites interested in our biomass.

The various forms of fucking around with non-human animals going on now are the bridges across that circum-border.

Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶFeb 12, 2025

How my post may look like:

(some reading https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/hyperobjects-by-timothy-morton )

Hyperobjects By Timothy Morton

Morton's book is a queasily vertiginous quest to synthesize the still divergent fields of quantum theory (the weirdness of small objects) and relativity (the weirdness of big objects) and insert them into philosophy and art, which he notes are far behind ontologically speaking (page 150). Morton’s wager is that for the first time, we in the Anthropocene are able to see snapshots of hyperobjects, and that these intimations more or less will force us to undergo a radical reboot of our ontological toolkit and (finally) incorporate the weirdness of physics.