“Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb.”
Fortunately you’re healthier when you don’t eat dead animals
Ironically they mostly live in and around Texas.
There’s been an entire ass radiolab on this one since a decade ago:
it’s been very well known anywhere within a few states of texas for like a decade, and it’s definitely spreading. The US government needs to get it’s shit together and then wipe that tick off the face of the map the same way they were handling the screw worm flys and the mosquitoes that carry west nile and the other ones that carry dengu fever.
I dunno. We might find a lot more vegetarians in the future.
Imo I think these ticks are cooking and we should breed them and release them into high beef consumption districts.
It’s been decades in planning by Big Vegan
My step-dad got bit by one of these. He can only eat chicken now and it sucks.
He can’t eat rice or beans or fruits or veggies?!?
It’s so scary that a bite from something the size of a pea can drastically change your life… Does he remember when being bitten and how long it took him to start having side effects?
huh. i know a dude who got bitten by one and he’s had to swear off all meat products, even poultry and fish. he was in cooking school learning vegan cookery when i met him.
WUUUUUT???!
Yeah, it’s becoming more common as the carrier ticks are able to expand due to climate change and more people are outdoors. There isn’t a good solution/treatment yet either, and it effects people differently. For some it’s a 3 month allergy, for many, it’s permanent.
Stay inside or douse yourself with cancer chemical bug spray
Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen
almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about “carcinogens” and youll be so much happier
Yes it does. But thats also a strawman used by large corpos to pour Roundup into our groundwater. Well guess what, we are paying for it now.
Sure, and the fish as well while the frogs turn gay
Right up until the cancer gets you anyway.
My wife loves beef but if she ever stopped eating it, I would call her my Alpha Gal
Somewhere there is a vegan breeding these ticks and laughing maniacally.
They wouldnt be too smart if they were, because it’s not a meat allergy, it’s an alpha -galactose allergy, which is a sugar present in most mammals that people eat, but also many other foods, like carageenan, which is in many vegan products and medicine.
Nothing our little genetic engineering lab can’t fix, crispr is so cheap this days. Ugh, their lab I mean, their hypothetical lab.
yep, it’s possible. It’s called the “Lone Star” tick
Go figure that a tick with a name reminiscent of Texas would make you unable to enjoy a steak.
good news! guess where everyone i’ve met who had it lived.
Well, it’s expanding its reach because of climate change. Same with armadillos.
"Theirs only one man who would DARE give me the rasberry. LONE STAR"
A NJ man died from it the end of last year. https://apnews.com/article/ticks-alphagal-death-meat-allergy-0db604bb7419a3b3b1b7c2639e40af1f
Oh good, I’m in danger
And dairy!
Yeah, a lot of people are learning about this the hard way and it appears to only be getting worse! The tick population has seen a huge “uptick” in recent years!
Do people on the east coast just not care about the diseases ticks carry? I feel like nobody is doing anything about ticks or the diseases. Back in the 80s they used to fly planes a few hundred feet over my house and open the back bay where a cloud of deet would come come pouring out. We’d stand out on the porch and watch and run inside before the cloud hit the ground. They did all that for mosquitoes.
I seen a weird story where a helicopter was dropping boxes of ticks in fields.
so i googled alpha gal tick and this is the first map i found. it is not authoritative it came off social media. but i remember when the map didn’t include the west coast and lone star ticks were way further south.
so that might be why they don’t care, because they don’t know they need to care.Turns out that horrific for the environment and it’s easier to just tell people to stop killing opossums.
Opossoms don’t really eat many ticks. The methodology of that study was flawed because they only fed them ticks.
so it turns out Statesians eat nothing but donuts. in this proposal to the IRB i would like to investigate…They are predators of mosquitoes and ticks, they aren’t supersoldiers of pest control like the study implies they are however a limiter in the ecosystem along with other animals people tend to kill and not think much about. It’s cheaper and easier to educate about not killing x than to eradicate a species and eat the consequences.
Well I used that as an example of the effort expensed not that it was a good solution. Similar to how opossums aren’t a solution. It’s been mentioned a number of times now they don’t help as much as first thought. Sounds like chickens or guinea fowl are better
They care, but there isn’t a ‘lot’ that can be done. These ticks range is expanding due to climate change, and even with proper precautions (sprays, clothing, monitoring) it still can happen. Lyme disease is a big thing in on the east coast, so they do know about ticks.
Would be a shame if this ended up in the water supply
Would be a shame if this ended up in the water supply
It certainly would. It’s not a meat allergy, it’s an alpha-galactose allergy. Alpha-gal is present in all foods and ingredients made from beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, and other mammal sources, including gelatin and milk. Certain seaweeds also contain alpha-gal, along with most Vegan product alternatives. Alpha-gal is found worldwide among the inactive ingredients and materials of medications and healthcare products, and it is generally not required to be labelled.
Based on the snarky tone, I have to assume you’re one of the vocal vegans that people hate because of the superiority complex that exudes from even simple comments like this. You should probably do a basic amount of research before commenting and proving you haven’t done any.
They’re either an obnoxious vegan or 13 years old.
You should probably do a basic amount of research
On lemmy? Lmaooo
Not even Lemmy, just Earth
You read the parent comment as completely serious and used it to rail against an assumed or imagined vegan boogeyman. Sounds tongue in cheek to me. I’m still waiting to see this “obnoxious vegan” everyone’s talking about. I know they exist, but all I see are angry meat eaters complaining about them
Go ahead and take a look at the vegan communities around the fediverse, don’t even need to go to the Reddit cesspool, they come along with everyone else… and let me know if they look like they’re not serious about that type of thing.
Holy hell, another one? I just found one of these creatures yesterday. My comments still reek of the responses to them.
What a wild way to interact with people… have a nice day
e: i read this as calling me a creature. after reading some of your comments i think i missed
No no, not you.
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That’s some pretty terrible assumption skills you got there, mate. I’ve seen stormtroopers with better precision than you.
Now, that is a terrible thought.
Terrible thought is my middle name. Abbadon “terrible thought” Johnson
