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Screwworm Parasite 'No Longer Contained in Texas' as Trump USDA Doubles Down on Efforts to Blame Biden
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You know all those feral hogs Cody at Some More News has been freaking out over for like a decade now?
They're the vector.
That... they're almost certainly how the worm is popping up in multiple places that are too far away for direct connections to previous specific locations to make sense.
... I feel bad for Cody's blood pressure and hairline.
Anyway, beef ain't gonna be on the menu much longer, boys.
also feral pigs are vicious animals, very hard to take down if you dont kill them outright. besides screworms, they spread other disease through thier poop, they are pretty aggressive invasive animals. this is not to confused with the wild boar, which is a different species of pig that is native to eurasia.
I mean... I feel like a somewhat sane policy at this point would be to put the US's massive collective armory of privately owned firearms to use:
Declare feral hogs to be something approximating a national emergency, adjust hunting laws so that outside of major urban and suburban areas, and far enough away from roadways, you get a small stipend from the government for every feral hog you down and bring in to a local butcher.
Everybody has already been upgunning themselves into like 6.5 creedmoor and 300 blackout and shit for the 'zombie apocalypse' or 'the boogaloo'... aim them at hogs instead of fantasies of being some kind 'me and buddies' militia.
Like, we already have states that adjust the number of other species you can take down per season, per how much the estimated population in the area is or is not overshooting ecological carrying capacity.
Just ... every area with hogs? Dramatically reduce the legal ability to shoot anything other than a hog.
Require that a hog has to be literally placed into a body bag before you haul it away, require a picture from a phone with exif data including timestamp and geolocation be taken before and after you bagging it on site.
Maybe a farmer or rancher or someone with more hunting experience than myself could chime in with a critique of this general concept.
Just... spin it, market it as doing your patriotic duty to take out a hog instead of buck, or something.
The government could just set up to buy tails or something and the rest would sort itself out.
I think there's already people shooting these things with night vision and automatic weapons from helicopters though.
Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they'll actually have a shot when they don't cost more than the actual meat.
When grilled and smothered with bacon and cheese they're not bad at all.
I mean, a burger made mostly out of beans and flavoring, with bacon and cheese, that does at least have less meat in it than the same with a full chuck patty.
And probably most people that have cooked with fatty meat before can tell you that if you fry up some meat in a pan first, and then cook various other foods in the same pan, small amounts of that oil/grease cooked into various other kinds of food can enhance their flavor.
And its almost certainly much better to use basically bean burger... than using ground up newspaper or flour or breadcrumbs as extra mass for the burger... that was not uncommon during the Great Depression.
Call it the 'hybrid' between a standard burger and a fully vegan one, sorta like the hybrid as the intermediary between ICE and EV cars.
It is not gonna be easy to fully snap transition the burger consumption capital of the planet into not using any meat.... baby steps, baby steps.
I mean, I think I tried one once, thought it was ok, definitely didn't hate it... but yeah, yep. Going to be an interesting shock to the American diet.
I've been saying unironically need to figure out how to do the bug pizzas from CyberPunk 77 for a while now... because ... meat just is going to get more and more expensive...
I'll stop short of eating ze bugs, haha. Despite how min-maxed grubs are nutritionally, I'm too squeamish for that.
It feels like it's been the last decade or so that alternative products like the plant patty and things like hard seltzers have been formulated to taste significantly less awful than they used to. Or my tastebuds are changing, both can be true to some degree.
The way I see it, a bunch of crickets or ants or something, ground up into a paste and then sifted to get the crunchier parts of the carapace out...
How is that really different from the pink slime chicken nuggets?
Other than it probably requires less chemical treatment?
Just press those into the shape of a pepperoni slice, figure out how to cook em.