A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry

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A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry
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Wasn’t there a disease going around that made people sick when eating red meat?

Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.

There’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.

Not always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don't have a ton of data.

But I'm often full of shit! Look it up yourself.

You are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don't hold it against yourself!

For a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.

Yep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.

Alpha-gal syndrome. It's not that common that it will affect entire populations.

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