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   mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:34:24 JST mark

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   @mdm @owenblacker @cstross feed lots are disgusting and the reason I don't eat most meats

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     Administrator (mdm@mcnamarii.town)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:34:25 JST Administrator

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     @owenblacker @cstross

     This sentence...

     "Another possible route is the cows’ feed, owing to the fairly revolting fact that the U.S. allows farmers to feed leftover poultry bedding material — feathers, excrement, spilled seeds — to dairy and beef cattle as a cheap source of additional protein."

     ...is one of the main reasons why I don't eat meat in the US

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     Owen Blacker (owenblacker@dataare.cool)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:34:27 JST Owen Blacker

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross Zeynep Tüfekçi has been tweeting about it on birdsite. She published this piece a few days ago, which looks interesting https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:34:28 JST Charlie Stross

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     We've been expecting bird flu to lunge at us for 2-5 years—it's already been wreaking havoc on marine mammals and other host species and then got into the US cattle herd due to factory farms feeding diseased chicken corpses to cattle—but it's a big leap from "a few poultry farm workers got sick" to "government forming emergency response team, setting up emergency clinic for infected doctors/nurses" (which seems to imply human-to-human transmission is now happening).

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:34:29 JST Charlie Stross

     Welp, looks like the next global pandemic just dropped: https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!state/jharkhand-two-doctors-six-others-quarantined-amid-bird-flu-outbreak-in-ranchi-enn24042801155