Fortunately you're healthier when you don't eat dead animals
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That's why you cook them first...
Are they not dead when you cook them?
Not lobster. Mmmmm. Well, shell fish.
My neighbors watched in horror one year when I grilled a lobster alive. They asked in terror : "Did you just put that lobster in the grill alive? I looked at them and said back: Ah yep! You buy them to kill them to eat them.
I just say that to upset the vegans, lol. Love, Live and Eat Meat.
I wonder if you would be like this if you'd get bit by this tick.
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.
Imo I think these ticks are cooking and we should breed them and release them into high beef consumption districts.
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Ironically they mostly live in and around Texas.
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.
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It’s been decades in planning by Big Vegan
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.
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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.
Well, it's expanding its reach because of climate change. Same with armadillos.
good news! guess where everyone i've met who had it lived.
"Theirs only one man who would DARE give me the rasberry. LONE STAR"
My wife loves beef but if she ever stopped eating it, I would call her my Alpha Gal
A NJ man died from it the end of last year. https://apnews.com/article/ticks-alphagal-death-meat-allergy-0db604bb7419a3b3b1b7c2639e40af1f
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And dairy!
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