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In reply to the discussion: Ticks That Can Make People Severely Allergic To Meat Are Spreading In The U.S. [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)19. These are the exact ticks that infest cattle, guess the ticks have evolved. Texas is changing into
plague lands. Warm water full of bacteria, flesh eating parasites.
'Cheat' Grass (wildfire tinder) full of chiggers if the cheatgrass spears don't pierce your skin and all the overgrown brush/weeds full of hungry ticks, left behind when cattle and sheep, trampled & stripped roots with native grass. full of hungry ticks.
Amazing what a short 150 years of grazing pressure did to our pristine lands.!! And how fast insects evolve.
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octoberlib
Aug 2014
OP
While the tick is real, I think this is their attempt at an April Fool's Day joke.
Hong Kong Cavalier
Aug 2014
#11
Thanks! I missed that. They're crazy enough to do something like this, though.
octoberlib
Aug 2014
#20
I didn't know this. I have problems with PETA's tactics but this list is troubling.
octoberlib
Aug 2014
#30
I'm waiting for the return of McCarthyism ...only this time it will be over who is a terrorist.
L0oniX
Aug 2014
#31
I live on eastern Long Island and know someone who has this. Poker buddy of mine.
KittyWampus
Aug 2014
#4
Lyme disease is a plague. We don't go camping anymore in Florida because of ticks.
L0oniX
Aug 2014
#21
These are the exact ticks that infest cattle, guess the ticks have evolved. Texas is changing into
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#19
sure today anything warm blooded moves through tick infested areas gets covered with ticks.
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#23
someone told me feral hogs are covered with ticks so bacon allergy may evolve soon.
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#26
Wow, never heard of this before. I've eaten red meat twice, I think, in the last
valerief
Aug 2014
#24
I once made vegan barbeque "ribs" from a recipe that used peanut butter.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#50
I believe my husband died of it, but it was deemed dementia. Ate raw beef (carpaccio) in the UK.
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#44
Thank you, and I'm sorry for your father; dementia isn't anything devoutly to be wished. That is
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#74
Tell your friend to watch the laundry detergent and soap. My son has this meat allergy . . .
kickitup
Aug 2014
#77
Ooooh!!! Think we could get a tick that would make people allergic to looking at smut?!?!?!
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#60