When you let yourself get screwed over by worms.
Thanks I hate it
I don’t want it
“New World Screwworm within a mile from the Texas border”
Ted Cruz returning from one of his vacations?
Ted Cruz returning from one of his vacations?
Was there a biblical weather event in Texas I didn’t hear about?
dang that’s crazy maybe you should stop the wholesale industrial imprisonment, torture, modification,removed, and slaughter of millions upon millions of feeling beings?
can’t be me tho
they spent money on eradicating it because of livestock and capitalism but even if you ended animal agriculture today it would still be a problem that should probably be addressed unless idk you like the idea of flies that can lay eggs on some random wound or inside your eye and then you got maggots eating you
We can’t even get these people to stop doing those things to other humans the animals are fucked ngl
Makes me think about how a hyper-neoliberal politician (and probably future prime minister) spoke about Denmarks ever more toxic drinking water:
“I don’t understand why people care about this. It’s silly. We have clean drinking water right now, so why pretend like there’s an issue?”Peak neoliberal mindset. Well it’s not a problem this moment, so why make any investments?
China: Creates 100, 50, 20, and 5 year plans
Neoliberal West: Hey man, it’s not a problem right now. Why are you worrying about it?
It’s funny how this is sometimes sold as a success story, completely omitting how the screwworm used to be handled for a fraction of the cost in central America.
How? I read the “Sterile Insect Technique” was significantly cheaper?
I think they are still doing that, just a lot more expensive on a wider area within the US instead of narrow part of central America
To clarify for anyone reading: the technique is the same wherever you do it. What’s cheaper is that you can take advantage of the natural geographic chokepoint that is the ismuth of Central America to treat a smaller area. But these boneheads think… I dunno, somehow Nicaragua is freeriding on the US when we do treatment there instead of spending 100x the money doing it all over the continental USA.
The children of kali in Ministry for the Future spiked the American beef supply with BSE and in the novel, it didnt slow down American consumption of meat meaningfully. If cattle got infected, it would also probably not stop American cattle farmers or even end consumers except for pricing people out.
I’ve been vaguely following this story. Excited for it, I guess. Might as well have all the horrors.
