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Good news! You don’t have to wrestle with the ethics of eating animals anymore! (Your immune system will make the decision for you)
i already don't buy meat and I'm shit scared of this allergy mainly because carageenan is a fantastic sustainable thickener and gelatin alternative
Vegans have resorted to biological warfare!
Huh, I thought it was only the lone star tick that did that.
Edit: I just went down a weird wiki rabbit hole and found out that it's commonly mistaken for pork-cat syndrome.
My father got lymes disease (not the red meat version) and that scared me so bad as a kid I'm always extra vigilant against the nasty little creatures and now I gotta be even more so? Damn.
“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US
HAH
and globally
fuck
Went fishing with a buddy in the South. We were dressed to protect ourselves, and I was so paranoid with ticks, I even secured the opening to my boots and pants. Definitely saw them crawling. A bunch of shirtless hicks came up to us and asked us where our fishing spot was so they can try. I told them about the ticks, and they just shrugged and repeated the question.
I think about that a lot.
At this point I think I'm immune to ticks. I work outside in the woods often and my coworkers get tons of ticks. I rarely get them maybe once or twice a whole year and they are barely hanging on. My coworkers take a lot more precautions than I do, but still get way more than me. It's weird.
Anyway more red meat for me I guess
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was more of a generalized mammal meat allergy rather than just read meat.
I live in a tick-heavy region of the USA where allergy is now fairly common. As in, introverted homebody me with a small social circle, but I know at least 5 people who have contracted it. 20+ years ago, the first time I heard about it, there was a degree of skepticism in the general population, but it's at the point now where almost everybody knows someone who is affected by it.
If there's any good news to be had, some people have discovered that it lessens in severity or even goes away after some time (usually takes many years).
Yeah it kinda sucks, but I'm healthier now.
Genuinely feels like the next generation is learning how to take the threat of ticks seriously.
Maybe there is a god but I'm still not convinced she's on anybody's side.
That steak is overcooked.
There are approaches to resolving alpha gal syndrome:
Friends of ours have a dog with those issues. He can only eat fish and chicken. No bone for doggy! Most dog treats are off the list, too.
Curious Clinicians has a podcast on how this works. Family Practice & Internal Medicine chatting around a mic format.
Your tag to the article makes me imagine some 12 Monkeys style release of infected ticks at DFW.
Nice. Can we breed them?
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