Posted on 08/31/2018 10:44:35 AM PDT by blam
Who doesn't love a juicy burger? About 5,000 Americans. And not from dietary preference, but because a single bite could cause hives, shortness of breath, or even death. It's not something they were born with, it's something their body was taught to reject, by an uninvited little wilderness hitchhiker. The following is a transcript of the video.
Imagine that you're a red-blooded carnivore. You love burgers, steak, pork chops, bacon. But one day, out of nowhere, red meat starts to make you physically sick to the stomach. It sounds like science fiction, but it's real, and it's spreading.
It's spreading to people like Amy.
Amy Pearl: My name is Amy Pearl, and I'm a producer for WNYC.
She has what is called a mammalian meat allergy.
Amy Pearl: I have a tendency to not mention it at restaurants, because I feel like if you say to a server, I'm allergic to meat, they're gonna be like, I'm spitting in your food.
Any meat that came from a cow, a pig, or a lamb, will make Amy sick. Very, very sick.
Amy Pearl: Like I just had hives on my hands and my feet, and like all over my torso. I was nauseous, and I felt like I was fainting, I felt like the world was ending, I felt like I was gonna pass out and I couldn't really breathe.
Thousands of Americans are suffering like Amy, but until 2009, this sort of allergy went undiagnosed.
Amy Pearl: I think I made an appointment with my regular physician, but he immediately was like, there's no such thing as a meat allergy, has to be something else.
That changed with the cancer drug, Cetuximab. In a clinical trial, one in four patients developed severe allergic reactions to the drug.
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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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