Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 
Peter GleickWhat perverse karma is it that #climatechange is expanding the range of a tick named after Texas and causing people to lose the ability to eat BBQ?
Aaron@petergleick schadenfreude will rot you out from the inside
mike morris@petergleick
So... excessive meat production fuels climate change; climate change fuels Tick increase and migration; Tick increase/migration causes meat allergies; demand for meat drops.
Gaia mechanism at work?
climate voter/Alarmist@petergleick Ticks doing their part to cut carbon emissions.
DoomsdaysCW@petergleick Not just red meat, but dairy as well.
@petergleick I could live without red meat, but I love goat cheese. 😞
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride-onphan! 🏳️⚧️@DoomsdaysCW @petergleick JOKES ON THEM, I'M ALREADY LACTOSE INTOLERANT 😭
Bellycan@petergleick Kevin Bean expanding to 7 days.
Kevin Bacon changed his name to Kevin Bean (and here’s why)
Franceska Mannmother nature wants people to go vegan
kralcttam ☕️@FranceskaMann @petergleick Yep. My uncle got alpha-gal allergy from a tick, and his diet and health improved.
Mick 🇨🇦@petergleick between this and Screwworm it’s as if nature, having realized we’re not going to make the change for ourselves, has begun intervening *directly* to end a major source of GHG emissions.
Anthony Brian Mallgren@petergleick Don't worry; G-d is just playing dice with the universe. Once he beats the house, we'll all be in good order.
clutch_lever@petergleick the irony is delicioous
CathyBikesBook@petergleick I don't think this is a good thing. More people being sick in a country that has shit healthcare is not a good thing. Also considering how we are in the midst of an economic crisis, people aren't going to be able to afford to go vegan. Forced veganism isnt a good thing.
tkissing@CathyBikesBook @petergleick Nobody *needs* red meat though, especially in the US where many foods are "fortified". You can get most if not all your iron, zinc and B vitamins from a bowl of raisin bran with milk (even soy milk in many cases).
@CathyBikesBook @petergleick nobody complained when it was forced on poor people. When prisons stopped serving cuts of meat and replaced it with soy based alternatives people cheered. Same with schools, it saved money and lowered taxes. Grocery stores closed and got replaced by box stores in new developments, fresh meat don’t travel well on the bus for two hours. If we took it from them it wasn’t a right, was it?
Anthony Sorace@CathyBikesBook @petergleick I don't *actually* want people to get sick to improve their diet, but this is a bad argument.
On the healthcare angle: true in the sense that it'd create an additional burden on the system as people get tested and try to fight it, but reducing red meat consumption will overall reduce load on the system and improve health.
On the economic angle: beans, chicken, and eggs, for example, are all cheaper per gram of protein. Beef typically doesn't crack the top 10.
~* Sarah@CathyBikesBook eating meat is so much more expensive than being vegan. Unless you're just doing a 1:1 replacement for meat with Beyond Meat products, you'd save a bunch of money becoming vegan (or even just reducing your meat intake and replacing some of that meat with beans).
panu@petergleick
I'm not sure if I should be saying this since I don't endorse human suffering in general, but oh boy isn't this just genius!
I'm not sure if I should be saying this since I don't endorse human suffering in general, but oh boy isn't this just genius!
RealGene ☣️
Paul_IPv6obviously a sign that pork bbq is the true bbq and beef is an aberration? :)
Lynn D@paul_ipv6 alpha gal syndrome is an allergy to ALL meats, and products that come from mammals. No matter what the pork industry is trying to make people believe, pigs are mammals, so forget them ribs, carnitas, and pork belly. @petergleick
@petergleick @dasparky Red meat's a good start, but what we really need is one that creates an allergy to auto exhaust.
Hisses with Geese 🌱
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@petergleick I started to stop eating BBQ three years ago. It started to taste bad to me.
Dopes The Frogman@petergleick what's interesting is that Bill gates bought a bunch of land, while alleged boxes of these ticks were dropped off in different parts of the country. Most likely he'll use that land to shill his plant based "meat" when enough people caught Alpha Gal Syndrome. We've dropped believing in coincidences.
Flaming Cheeto@petergleick get ready for a culture warrior to claim that lefty veganistas are purposely spreading alpha -gal ticks
Brie Mmm@petergleick @PizzaDemon I'd gladly set some of them free here in Europe.
lwbrown52@petergleick irony is alive after all