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Re: A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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Post by symian »

hagbard_c wrote: post #154
symian wrote: post #54

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We are in the midst of a great extinction event. It’s the only extinction event caused by one species. We are quite bad for the planet’s ecosystem and things like factory farming of cows and pigs cause great suffering. Having far fewer humans on the planet would be a great benefit to other species and to humanity.

We're not in the midst of a great extinction event and even if we were it would not be the first one caused by a single species. Probably the first one was caused by the appearance of Cyanobacteria some 2.7 billion years ago which started to make use of sunlight through photosynthesis. A few hundred million years later the produced oxygen started seeping into the atmosphere and boom, nearly all anaerobic life on the…

Ok, it’s the first mass extinction event caused by a single species in the last 1.99 billion years. We are shitting all over the planet. It’s not a matter of warm or cold but of toxifying the entire planet. It’s a matter of what type of environment we want to live in. Merely existing is dehumanizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Re: A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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Post by drdexebtjl »

AdamN wrote: post #156
drdexebtjl wrote: post #97

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Citation needed. We ought to have learned after the Covid “herd immunity” policies that killed hundreds of thousands around the world, that infectious disease control should be grounded on actual research, and not on simplified world models. Researchers currently recommend treatment.

They recommend treatment because the mandate is to keep the animals alive, not whether or not it's good long term for humans. Many doctors and vets though are against the mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming (literally as a prophylactic so they get the antibiotics just in case) but it's not having much of an impact it seems.

> the mandate is to keep the animals alive

By whom?

> mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming

This is a completely different issue. No one's doing mass prophylactic treatment against this fungus, and even if we treated every single cat in the world, there are 60 times more chickens. Industrial farming is on a completely different scale.

> doctors and vets

Unless they're citing research supporting their opinion, it's as irrelevant as any other non-specialist.

Re: A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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Post by pizzafeelsright »

nosioptar wrote: post #124
pizzafeelsright wrote: post #110

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Keeping an animal that defecates indoors and allowing it contact with food prep area is obscene.

I defecate indoors. Should I not be allowed bear food prep areas?

I am certain you don't step in the toilet bowl and walk on your countertops after.

Re: A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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Post by pizzafeelsright »

542354234235 wrote: post #129
pizzafeelsright wrote: post #110

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Keeping an animal that defecates indoors and allowing it contact with food prep area is obscene.

Children?

Children was their hands, diapers get changed, and rarely get on countertops.
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