I feel sorry for the cows, they did not vote for the MAGA shitheads.
DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S
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Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 53 minutes ago
COWS, any kind of livestocks, it also include pets and most warm blooded mammals.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
They voted for MOOGA.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
And we think beef is expensive now!
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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Mavvik@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I love this. Im firmly in team veg but still haven’t given up meat. It may come one day, but for now im happy with about half my meals being vegetarian.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
What’s your favorite simple and easy vegetarian recipe that’s filling?
I’m not vegetarian, I love me a good cheeseburger every once in a blue moon and always will, but I don’t eat a lot of red meat and I’ve been trying to eat less and less meat in general. I’m not going to pretend eating meat in today’s world is ethical, but neither will there be a noticeable difference if I stop buying my pound or two of chicken and a filet of fish every month. I grew up on a meat and potatoes diet and while I’ve learned a lot since then I’m still not great at cooking filling vegetarian meals, I feel like every time I cook completely without meat I end up absolutely starving in an hour, even if I have protein from other sources.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I dunno if this will help anyone, but I realized salads are way more enjoyable for me once I started mixing buldak sauce with my dressing.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Being a vegetarian won’t save you from maggots eating your skin though.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
It already got too expensive for me to justify, so any more doesn’t really change the calculus 🫠
The_v@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 1 hour ago
it will be 0 once the screworms decimate the herds.
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
100%
Farm people always vote against their own interests - and it shows.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 7 hours 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
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 hours 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 4 hours 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.
BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 hours ago
Kurzgesagt did a good episode on screworms.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Conservatives only know how to do one thing while governing which is to close their eyes, press the gas pedal and dare the road to swerve as the charge ahead with no clue what is going to happen.
Ironic we call them “conservatives”.
grue@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The only thing “conservatives” ever conserve, ever have conserved, or ever intended to conserve, is hierarchical power. Conservatism only happens to line up with “preserving that which currently exists” in the sense that, when conservatism was initially developed, the system that currently existed was monarchy.
spacegoat@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re called conservatives because they should all be in conservatorships. That being the case, I think they should be called asylumists.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 hour ago
There could be scary things out there in the dark, best not to see them.
grte@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Well don’t worry, this administration has a tried and true solution. If you stop checking for screwworm, it’s not there.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 6 hours ago
We Saved MONEY!
-Ranchers whose Taxes INCREASED!
ClownStatue@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Exactly. Every one of those fuckers will happily vote R again after their herds all die off, because “RepUbLIcnS er BeTr for du EcoNiMeE!”
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
All those little doge twerps deserve the absolute worst.
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Looks like they are screwed.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Quit worming into the comments
BillyClark@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I just saw this yesterday, and that article had an estimated yearly impact of how much money farmers/ranchers would lose every year if screwworm comes back to the US, and IIRC, it was something like $900 million.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 hours ago
That’s not even enough for a ballroom.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
‘Murica is a laughing stock, and rural’ Murica somehow managed to be even more stupid
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
When something is eradicated, but comes back, how does that work? Was it only eradicated because of ongoing efforts from this agency?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
the new world screworm was eradicated in NA up until 2023, when the program ended due to covid disrupting things.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Basically. We had previously driven the screw worm south of the darian gap and we had been keeping it there by continuously dropping sterile flys across the region to prevent them from breeding. But the mitigation measures were cut to save money so now we’re back to having screw worm in the US.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
This comment needs to be at the top. This was an intentional choice made in the first trump administration to just…stop doing the cheap thing that had been working for a generation. Now the exact expected outcome has come to fruition.
somename@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
It was pushed out of North America by releasing large amounts of sterile flies, so that they’d mate and die without producing new generations. They pushed the range of the fly down slowly, until they hit Panama.
That is a very narrow strip of land connecting North and South America, allowing for a ‘wall’ of sorts to be made, by continually releasing batches of the sterile flies from sites in the area.
With Covid disruptions, and associated cuts to the department though, they’ve been creeping past the barrier, and there wasn’t a funding increase to push them back down. DOGE accelerated this by firing a bunch of the people involved.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Interesting, thanks for the answer!
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It was stuck in South America, and eradicated from North America, with the Darian Gap as the barrier IIRC.
But it’s been spreading north since like 2023. There’s been a kind of inescapable dread that it would come to the US eventually, but it happened faster than was expected.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because the Republicans ended the program that kept them away
butsbutts@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
mm tasty parasites
XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
Making America eat less beef by killing all the cows. 4D chess Mr President.
Kzad_Bhat@chaos.social 8 hours ago
@fossilesque lets all take this moment to hold our hat in our hands and look demurely at the ground to thank #TheSedionistFeloninCharge and his #FascistSouthAfricanImmigrant for making things so GREAT.
resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m always for shitting on what doge did. It was pretty bad. In this particular case, the screwworm was making its way back towards the US before trump was back in office. Cutting funding almost certainly made it harder to prevent this, but it was probably coming anyway.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Yeah, IIRC the main "breach" happened during Covid as a result of the disruption caused by the pandemic, it's not something whose root cause can be blamed so easily on Trump. There was a program operating down in Panama to prevent the fly from spreading up through the narrow isthmus there by releasing sterile males and the supply chain disruptions broke it for a year or two, resulting in the flies getting through to Mexico where it's a lot harder to eradicate them.
Trump's cuts and chaos sure haven't helped the situation, though, and with dedicated effort it might have been possible to turn back the tide before now.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Making America Great Again! like it’s 1965!
Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
/s
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
In fairness they’ve been spreading Northward yearly for several years, we knew they were coming and eradication efforts have been underway for a while to try to blunt it. But, with the idiots currently in charge, just assume those efforts have been botched until proven otherwise.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since.