Posted on 08/31/2018 10:44:35 AM PDT by blam
This is an emergency. We need to eradicate this tick from the earth immediately.
Why in the world would any rational person think that?
Because you know...carnivore privilege.
Vegan fantasy
My boy has a friend who was bitten....causes complete meat allergy, really sucks.
Pork chops and bacon are red meat?
Can we genetically modify it to make people allergic to kale and quinoa so I never have to hear about them again.
Meat allergy? More likely an allergy to either something the meat was prepared with, or something injected for flavor, or hamburger mixed with soy. People allergic to soy can’t even use soybean oil, a very commonly used oil, if I’m not mistaken, though it’s usually the proteins in an allergen that cause reactions.
All kidding aside, pork is classified as a “red meat” as opposed to poultry.
The ads calling pork “the other white meat” is technically inaccurate.
tick ping
How soon before PETA demands all kids get “inoculated” with this stuff.
Shhh...Don’t let PETA learn about this or they’ll demand schoolkids be injected with it.
I hope people who have been bitten by ticks, and get antibiotics for it, are immune. My husband was bitten by a lone star tick. I pulled it off of him and took him to the doctor the same day. The doctor didn’t believe me that it was a lone star, even though I brought it with us, saying they aren’t found in our area, but he begrudgingly gave my husband a course of antibiotics, at my insistence. The next week, the paper reported an older man about 100 miles from us died from the Heartland virus, carried by lone star ticks. People are very casual about tick bites, but they are more and more carrying deadly diseases. Lyme disease has some hideous outcomes, from arthritis to dementia. I hate ticks!
I have a friend whose wife is (I swear) allergic to everything. It's a huge, consuming part of her life.
On top of that, she has breast cancer and her oncologist had to implant little "markers" to help guide the x-rays (or something).
She said, "OK, but the markers have to be ceramic. I'm allergic to just about everything else."
"Oh, don't worry. These are titanium. You'll be fine."
"I'm allergic to titanium."
"That's ridiculous! No one is allergic titanium!"
"I am. Seriously. Absolute fact. I know this."
"You've been misinformed. You're not allergic to titanium."
She switched doctors. Because: she's allergic titanium.
The next doctor said, "You want ceramic? Sure, we can do ceramic markers. No big deal."
“The key ingredient in Cetuximab is a specific carbohydrate that all non-primate mammals carry in their cell walls and tissues, Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or, if you’re pressed for time, alpha-gal.”
I was wondering why she wasn’t allergic to her own meat, and this article explained it.
I’ll have to read the whole articles more often, as opposed to the FR standards, I guess.
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