Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.
“I always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Never been happier to be a vegetarian incapable of processing milk.
Edit: to be clear, I’m poking fun at your upcoming bankruptcy over a simple dinner of milk steak and jellybeans.
You won’t be laughing when it crosses over to the soybeans!
Depression diet is coming and meat won’t be on the menu.
Being able to eat meat doesn’t mean you have to. Something that (perhaps slightly irrationally) annoys me about some people. They act as if a meal requires meat and then complain at how expensive food is to buy. Laughs in omnivore £15/week each diet. But by not being actually vegetarian I can still have things like Worcestershire sauce too.
Yeah and its annoying the vegans that are so militant they discourage meat reduction in diets. Beef is so much worse (both health and environment) than most other meats that getting a large amount of folks to give up or massively reduce beef consumption is way better than a much smaller number becoming vegan.
Just look at /r/vegan, even if you don’t eat/use animal products you are still not a vegan unless its for their specific reasons. If you do it for environmental reasons they decide you don’t count as a vegan.
It’s also on reddit, what do you expect?
Beef is so much worse (both health and environment) than most other meats
why do you think that?
Why would you think that beef is good for the environment?
I didn’t say that
because of data. water usage and calorie conversion ratio on environment and fatty foods for diet. Im not going to do a web search for you as these things are well known and don’t go into places are only good for grazing or such as im talking reduction and not elimination. Just note Im only going to give so much effort toward any questions you want to pose as again this is not super controversial or hard to find information.
because of data
what data?
water usage and calorie conversion ratio on environment and fatty foods for diet.
but where did you get those? because i’ve found some LCA meta “studies” that i don’t trust which are usually the ones trotted out. i was hoping you had good data sources.
I mean I have never looked into the studies that are the basis for the data but while I think its possible in the details I really doubt the overall would be wrong. Water usage and calorie wise it pretty much falls in line with smaller animals using less for each calorie. I really doubt people are hyping crickets capability to convert plants into cricket vs cows making plants into cow. Its common sense enough that Im not looking to determining how well the studies were done as I don’t do that for most things as most people don’t who still work a job enough to eat and such. Conversely if you know about bad studies I would not mind you giving me what you have. I have just done a quick search using terms like misleading and scam and such and nothing seems to come up.
It’s ok. I still got my emergency rum ham.
Pasteurization is done for a reason.
There is a paper out about reactivation after pasteurization sadly.
I’d be interested in the specifics of that - as far as I’ve seen it’s been shown to be very effective.
im confused. I thought this was a joke but is this conversation about pasteurization stopping lactose intolerance???
Well, it started with my misunderstanding of the original post talking about “not being able to drink milk” and thinking they perceived the benefit being that they wouldn’t catch bird flu from milk (which has been a concern). They later clarified they were thinking about the cost involved.
That won’t make it any cheaper when it follows the price of eggs
It’s tragic that people have already killed their cats with raw milk (and some cat food), apparently. I’m sure Brainworms will be looking out for everyone’s pets, too…
I have to have whole milk and other dairy as part of my nutritional regimen as worked out by a professional dietician, so I’m glad I’m not in America right now.
Shame that’s not how this virus works with it’s concern of jumping from avians and mammals, including humans.
That is one concern, if it’s also resulting in a lot of livestock being killed off that will now impact food prices of more than just eggs.
Yup. Its to late now but for a week or few chicken meat prices were down and given the timing im almost sure if was from flocks being culled.
Umm … when chickens are killed because of an outbreak the carcasses are buried. It is illegal to butcher or sell any type of meat that’s part of a disease outbreak, whether it’s BSE in cattle or bird flu in poultry.
what happens is farms inside a certain area area that exactly is what happens but farms just outside the area that don’t have to kill their flocks realize that area may increase. Basically that they are in a danger zone. So you can slaughter and get the meat price right away or just thin your heard to reduce the chance of spreadage. Im not really sure the details but this is generally what I have been lead to believe happens and the chicken prices we saw for a week or few (can’t remember how long but it was at least two weeks) was 99 cent a pound breast which we have not seen for years around here. An interesting thing about it to is that it was not fraken chicken which also made me suspect its from egg layers. I know we had farms get nuked in the area.
I would absolutely make use of that with my freezer. And complain to my partner that we don’t have a chest freezer in the place one should obviously go.
we have two so that we can clean and thaw one once a year and of course also to store more.
