A second human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the United States since the virus was first detected in dairy cattle in late March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

The infection of a dairy worker in Michigan expands the outbreak of the bird flu, though the CDC said the risk to the general public remains low.

The CDC told reporters on a call that it has not seen evidence of human to human transmission of bird flu and that it has tested close to 40 people since March, including the Michigan worker.

Michigan and Texas are among nine states that have reported bird flu in dairy herds since late March. Scientists have said they believe the outbreak is more widespread based on U.S. Food and Drug Administration findings of H5N1 particles in about 20% of retail milk samples.

    • voracitude@lemmy.world
      311·
      6 months ago

      Good luck with that. The largest economy in the world can’t even stop putting literal poison in the food. Where’s the will going to come from?

      It’s going to take nothing less than a wholesale collapse, and even then most of these chucklefucks - the ones left, anyway - will be looking to get back to the way things were at any cost.

      • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
        72·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, but the more people who recognize that animal agriculture needs to end and then act accordingly, the better. Same with any other justice movement: see the problem, take action to solve it.

      • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
        1223·
        6 months ago

        It’s going to come from people learning that unnecessary animal consumption makes us sick. Some people are/will be slower than others.

        • voracitude@lemmy.world
          241·
          6 months ago

          It’s going to come from people learning

          I’m sorry, I don’t know quite how to tell you this, but uh…

        • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
          84·
          6 months ago

          I’m an omnivore who respects and has some desire to be a vegetarian. You’re making vegetarianism look bad.

          • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
            410·
            6 months ago

            Would you have preferred it if I called them late instead of slow? Frankly I don’t care for your judgment either way, I’ve been a committed vegan for 5 years and I don’t really believe you either respect the movement or desire to be vegetarian, let alone are being turned off making the right choice for yourself because of how I make it look. It’s not an aesthetic.

            • stoy@lemmy.zip
              41·
              6 months ago

              You don’t get people to sympathise with you and your cause by insulting them.

                • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
                  61·
                  6 months ago

                  Downvoting the guy who said “you don’t get people to agree with you by insulting them”. Also, insulting me when I said I supported vegetarianism. Also calling the majority of humanity “slow”, while willfully ignoring that not everyone has the blessing to be able to afford everything they think is most ethical, nor the blessing to have the education to desire alternatives to meat.

                  You’re just an asshole, and you justify it by preaching about how long you’ve been a vegan. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you were a troll, but you’re worse. You’re an arrogant narcissist who can’t handle criticism.

                  • flicker@lemmy.world
                    5·
                    6 months ago

                    I agree they’re an asshole. But I do want to say I’ve been vegan off and on for… Jesus 17 years. Anyway, there’s this thing I noticed in some members of the community (not that guy) where their experience is so insular that they think everyone in the world knew 20 years ago that factory farming was environmentally disastrous but they just ignored it.

                    So they’re so burnt out on it that they become these crazy screaming judgey assholes. Then, add to that, that there really are the most remarkably assholish omnivores at almost every social event involving food. I was 22, and I got cornered at a work pot luck when a man found out I was vegan (I never ever mentioned it, I brought food! But someone finally dragged it out of me when I had to explain I couldn’t try their fried chicken) and he spent forteen minutes lecturing me on how not eating meat was an “insult to God” and how he’d eat twice as many animals because I was there.

                    …I was young and used to be too polite to get away from assholes like that. I’m better now.

                    My point here is, spending years and years of that makes you angry and bitter if you let it, especially if you’re a self-important jackass with a savior complex.

                  • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
                    12·
                    6 months ago

                    I haven’t downvoted anybody. I’m trying to be frank here. I didn’t mean to insult you, I’m just tired of walking on eggshells about the issue for the sake of people who talk to me the way you do. You’re mad because I rejected your judgment of me. Wow, what an asshole I am.

    • TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.eeEnglish
      48·
      6 months ago

      So how do you propose people get the b12 they need? Cover every meal in marmite, eat algae, or mass produce b12 supplements? Most foods that have high concentrations of B12 come from either dairy products or eggs.

      • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
        73·
        6 months ago

        Those animals are usually supplemented, just cut the middleman. Nutritional yeast is another good source of it

        • TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.eeEnglish
          23·
          6 months ago

          I already mentioned yeast, that’s what marmite is. Unless you mean just eating yeast directly? I don’t know about cows because I haven’t worked with them but I have worked with chickens which aren’t given b12 supplements and yet eggs still provide plenty of b12

          • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
            41·
            6 months ago

            Nutritional yeast is a great seasoning for food, it tastes good and is nutritional. And yeah, all the options you listed are better than animal agriculture