This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.

There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It’s disproportionate from my experience in person.

I wonder if it means anything.

Lemmy’s userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.

So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.

Disclaimer: I eat meat

I don’t think many on the left are vegan or vegetarian, I think that those two groups tend to live in the left spectrum. They’re far outweighed by those that do eat meat.

I’m confused by this and totally open for evidence that proves otherwise, but literally everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan is a bit more or…insanely more on the conservative side.

I don’t know any liberal vegetarian or vegans.

I am left wing but I’m not vegan and I’ll never be vеgаn and that is my personal choice

I don’t mind if others are vеgаn or vegetarian but when you start bullying people off a platform for not being vеgаn then that’s when I do mind

If I do see any of that bullying I do report it and I suggest you should too

/positive connotation

The average lemmy user is more educated and empathetic to the impact of the industrial meat industry than the average person?

We’re all ticks here

Meh. I’m not vegan. I just thought it was an interesting connection. Possibly another example of nature fighting back.

Lemmy is a foss anti-coporate project, what kind of demographics do you expect to see here ?

Lemmy is a vegan trans leftist echo chamber

These damn vegan echo chambers. They’re talking about vegan recipes to try out

I could think of worse echo chambers

Lemmy.world atleast is a space to discuss things positively but I’d rather it not become an echo chamber

Source: me being a leftist who says trans rights are human rights

Ecoterrorists finally figured it out.

I suppose. but I worry about those who cannot biologically process a vegetarian diet no matter the supplements they take. If they get bitten by the tick, they’re fucked

You’d have to be pretty damn unlucky to not only have one rare condition affecting your diet, but also get bitten by the makes-you-vegetarian-bug

I do hate that this is downvoted as your comment seems to have been targeted out of rash and inflammatory reaction to your comment

Your comment is logical and I believe people who don’t choose to be vеgаn shouldn’t be forced into it

I’d hoped this response to comments would have stayed on reddit but apparently not

It’s a shame, but tribalism is built into our species; the moment someone gets even a whiff of ‘us vs them’, it comes back into the forefront.

That’s a thing? I mean, non-meat products are… well, an absolute fuckton. Obviously I know there’s stuff like gluten or fructose intolerance, allergies, etc.,but the spectrum of “things that aren’t meat” just seems too large for somebody to be incapable to live without it. Like, you would have to be absolute stacked with rare medical issues affecting your dietary options.

Ticks are terrible; creepy just as little things that get on you, but then they also carry all sorts of diseases which really drives up the paranoia after every hike

Read anything about Lyme disease and you’ll never feel safe again.

A friend of mine got this. It took forever to pin down what was wrong (basically it was like having IBS but didn’t know why). After learning about it he asked his doctor to test for it and they were like “lol, no way but sure okay” and lo and behold…

What did they test for, exactly? Meat allergy?

Yes, you can test for antibodies that indicate what allergies you have.

I’m deathly allergic to chicken, turkey, tuna, ham, and a few other meats randomly. Life is so shit now. They hide meat products in literally everything. It’s FUCKED.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen meat being hidden in stuff. Milk, though? Fucking everywhere. Just 1% milk powder in everything so they can get those dairy subsidies.

Meat derivatives are in a lot of products. Seasonings, sauces, etc. can hide a lot of those. You can order like a teriyaki tofu dish, for example, and most of the time you’ll be fine. But you’ll eventually run into a variety here and there that uses dashi or oyster sauce in the ingredients. Or you get kimchi and have to worry about the same thing with fish sauce. You get a bag of BBQ potato chips, there’s a chance it contains chicken. Order a cheese pizza, the sauce may still contain tiny bits of sausage. Even a vegetable soup may still use beef or chicken stock.

Damn, maybe that’s a regional thing. You know, food regulations and stuff. I’ve definitely seen a couple examples of what you’re talking about, but I’ve never seen it as common.

This happened to me about 5 years ago. Wasn’t too bad. Just had hives and awful gut pain. Enough to make you not want it but nothing life threatening.

Since I’ve figured it out, I’ve had beef or pork accidentally maybe two or three times. Feel awful for about a day.

I don’t miss red meat too much. Thinking about going full vegetarian.

I have it. It took years to get diagnosed and it was making me SICK. I’ve had reactions from breathing the air where they’re cooking meat. It’s no joke

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