it will be 0 once the screworms decimate the herds.
The_v@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hmmm… Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?
98.5%, 99% or 99.5?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
As we know Mexico being endemic to the parasite has cattle
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Literally has nothing to do with Trump or Trump voters.
While the USDA has long been prepared and will just repeat their actions of last time—which the article implies they’ve already prepared for—it’s more a concern of what happened to Central/South America, or the fly’s geneology or reproductive behaviours that has caused the safe zone to slowly get overrun these past few years.
If you really want to point this to Trump, I guess you’ll need to find some sort of link to something the US did that somehow caused Panama and then Mexico to get re-invaded, about 6-12 months before he was in office.
The_v@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The moron cut a critical organization when a major threat was known to be migrating north.
The agency needed a massive influx of resources for an expanded effort to control it this year.
No the root cause is not his fault, but his dumbass decisions the the fucking morons who voted for him are absolutely at fault for the shitty response.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s…not how the sterile tactic works. Anywhere in the world.
For starters, you think they’re just going to release everything in winter because last fall there were a couple of cases in proximity of the border? It’s insect ecology. Always wait for late-spring to summer before anything. Most generational breeding starts peak-summer period.
When we do this for mosquitos in SE Asia, African Lakes, South America, etc. you prepare, then go it at the right time.
“We had a case in Texas now! Unleash the horde!”
Aaaand you’re fucked.
Again, the main concern is about how infestation breached through north of South America and Central America to get to North America. There were proxy cases to the US border over the last six months which obviously meant it’d be in the US come warmer months—and that’s been factored for—but why did it get that far up the continent over the last two years?
These are things way outside of Trump’s wheelhouse and apparently Lemmy users that only come in here for US politics articles. Hell. I can tell most of you didn’t even read the article, let alone look into it.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We lost containment because doge cut funding while beef snuggling in Mexico has ramped up, so it’s not just Trump’s fault. But he saw a brush fire and poured gas on it. Beef is going to a luxury for wealthy Americans. Just like pets are becoming. Somebody noticed that the bottom half of the country functionally does not participate in “the economy” so their solution is to eliminate them. Letting the screw fly run loose helps that goal. See also the repeal of environmental protections and regulations.
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
100%
Farm people always vote against their own interests - and it shows.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI
Favourite scene of all time. I don’t think Cleavon Little knew it was coming and was genuinely laughing.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you utterly dismiss farmers as incorrigibly stupid rather than trying to talk with them, they will never change. If you leave agricultural workers to the wolves while the fascists pretend to have their backs, will they support you or the fascists?
Did you know most of the majority-black counties in the USA are rural areas in the South that vote overwhelmingly for Democrats? Are they also ejeets that deserve to get their cows screwed?
What about the people who get screwworms in their injuries? That’s gonna be the poor bastards who get employed to work with the livestock. Who works in shitty underpaid farm labour? Poor whites, black people, immigrants. People who have few other choices.
Snobbery against rural areas is just classism. It’s how Republicans could get such a grip on them in the first place. Go ahead and only struggle amongst educated people in the cities and scratch your head when when your country stays fascist. Watch the rural-urban divide get wider.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
This is a really bad take on the situation dude.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They’re entitled welfare queens (that absolutely refuse to acknowledge their welfare because they’re entitled) that vote consistently against everyone’s best interest so they can keep growing garbage corn that we turn into garbage fuel that destroys engines. Fuck farmers. Monoculture bullshit fucking the soil.