Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      Honestly, I feel like this is a big fuck you from mother nature, telling us that our industrial farming practices, that are contributing so heavily to climate change, are now worth fuck all. And I am very much not a vegan.

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        14 hours ago

        Bruh, I see more meat-eaters following and actively commenting on vegan pages and forums than vegans being annoying lol

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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          Can confirm IRL, too. I’m not vegan, but vegetarian. Cannot tell you how many rather stupid conversations I’ve had (initiated by omnivores that discover I’m vegetarian, which I don’t exactly advertise, but obviously there are times it comes up if you are sharing a meal at work, or with friends/relatives and so on).

          That’s even with me not really having any desire to proselytize or anything. It’d be one thing if I was upping the ante in response. But there is a certain kind of omnivore that seem to be deeply triggered by the existence of veg*ns. I mean, it really really seems to bother them.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, but all ticks can do that. The “meat allergy ones” are a species that is only moving now because of climate change, which in no small part is also caused by emissions from factory farming.