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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hmmm... Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?

98.5%, 99% or 99.5?

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100%

Farm people always vote against their own interests - and it shows.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 94 points 1 month ago (18 children)

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 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://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.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 100 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And we think beef is expensive now!

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

It's aways a great time to join team veggie!

Membership is open! Join for a single meal, or go hardcore and fully vegan! There's no rules, you're still on the team if you go veggie one meal a year or every single meal for the rest of your life. It's flexible!

We've got tasty daals, chilis, curries, pan-seared mushroom steaks, a million flavors of hummus, tofus, pulled BBQ seitan, juicy vital wheat gluten roasts, and so much more!

It's also cheap! Homemade hummus is incredible and light on the wallet! You'll discover a world of extremely tasty foods!

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 94 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Conservatives only know how to do one thing while governing which is to close their eyes, turn off their headlights, press the gas pedal and dare the road to swerve as they hurtle ahead into the darkness with no clue what is going to happen.

Ironic we call them "conservatives".

[–] grue@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The only thing "conservatives" ever conserve, ever have conserved, or ever even 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.

Make no mistake: under any system but monarchy/dictatorship, "conservatives'" single purpose will always be to transform it into monarchy/dictatorship as switftly, radically, and even recklessly as they can possibly manage.

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[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

They’re called conservatives because they should all be in conservatorships. That being the case, I think they should be called asylumists.

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[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since. likely it wouldve been restored under harris, A GOP wh will never restore something like this. they always end using budget cuts to fund TAX CUTS.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden's USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching "we fucked up" thresholds in 2022.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the now classic answer to "Why is this happening now?" Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he'd get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency

I would say funding it at 4x is pretty urgent

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[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We do a fair job at banning some of their people too

I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

'Murica got exactly what' Murica deserved

There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn't new

It has always been fucked. It wasn't founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble

It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else

The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We Saved MONEY!

-Ranchers whose Taxes INCREASED!

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 20 points 1 month 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!”

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I feel sorry for the cows, they did not vote for the MAGA shitheads.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago

They voted for MOOGA.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

COWS, any kind of livestocks, it also include pets and most warm blooded mammals.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Shit, I'm a worm blooded mammal!

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 month ago

Well don't worry, this administration has a tried and true solution. If you stop checking for screwworm, it's not there.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Daily reminder that the US government is a doomsday cult. This is is by design.

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

That's not even enough for a ballroom.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 29 points 1 month ago

Kurzgesagt did a good episode on screworms.

https://youtu.be/zxq60I5RSW8

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is so much more horrifying than I realized. Humans can get it too. Here's a CDC article on it if you dare. https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Symptoms can include

Feeling maggots (larvae) move or seeing maggots within a skin wound or sore, or in the ears, nose, eyes, or mouth.
Painful skin wounds or sores that worsen within a few days.
A foul-smelling odor from the site of the infestation.
Bleeding from open sores.

Yeah, that doesn't sound fun.

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Murica is a laughing stock, and rural' Murica somehow managed to be even more stupid

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[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago

All those little doge twerps deserve the absolute worst.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

Working as intended.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

When something is eradicated, but comes back, how does that work? Was it only eradicated because of ongoing efforts from this agency?

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 18 points 1 month 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.

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[–] somename@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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. That kept the flies contained to South America.

With Covid disruptions, and progressive cuts to the department, 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 and slashing budgets further.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] angband@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

And with climate change, it could possibly spread further north than it used to, before it was eradicated in the US.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Big brain billionaire syndrome

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

awesome! for a moment i was worried famine wouldn't be one of the things this administration would bring about.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like they are screwed.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Quit worming into the comments

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[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

If you don't know about the parasite, I really like this Kurzgesagt video explaining it (YouTube link)

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