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Someone must have decided they weren't "essential". Big mistake.
Not essential. We can eat less beef. Better for health, the environment.
Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone must have decided they weren't "essential". Big mistake.
Not essential. We can eat less beef. Better for health, the environment.
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Someone must have decided they weren't "essential". Big mistake.
Not essential. We can eat less beef. Better for health, the environment.
Re: Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread
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It was failing long before this. The border used to be down by Panama.
The border didn't magically eradicate the flies on one side. Pushing the border down to the Darien Gap took work, but we did it before and can do it again. The real problem is the gleeful destruction of government capacity to do things like this.
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#78I'd never head of screwworm before, turns out it's not a worm, this page is pretty decent: https://cr.usembassy.gov/sections-offices/aphis/screwworm-pr... "A screwworm infestation is caused by larvae of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax. These larvae can infest wounds of any warm-blooded animal, including human beings. The screwworm fly is about twice the size of a regular house fly and can be distinguished by its gree…
The key to managing this pest [edit: after it breaches the isthmus program] is through active monitoring, treating infested wounds as well as conducting castration and dehorning in less active months. It’s not like cattle herds didn’t exist prior to the 1950s.