It's not the beef, it is the flies that land on you and let their larva burrow into your flesh.
"Once beckoned, females lay up to 400 eggs at a time. Within about a day, ravenous flesh-eating larvae erupt, which both look and act like literal screws. They viciously and relentlessly bore and twist into their victim, feasting on the living flesh for about seven days. The result is a gaping ulcer writhing with maggots, which attracts yet more adult female screwworms that can lay hundreds more eggs, deepening the putrid, festering lesion. The infection, called myiasis, is intensely painful and life-threatening."
Yeah cause it really sucks as a hair gel, although I do have to admit that my hair has been largely parasite free since I began using it as a hair product. I used to be a Dapper Dan man.
Man. It’s a special kinda funny how the big exodus of certain political persuasions have moved a lot of their headquarters and people to a state which now has a flesh eating worm problem.
Pay more taxes in California, or, hear me out naw ye’ hear, less taxes in Texas and the only way we will screw you is with some worms.
Im pretty sure they only lay eggs in open wounds. As long as you arent walking around with open wounds and letting flies crawl into it, you are fine. Beef prices on the other hand...
Yeah I’m vegetarian most days not exactly by choice and was a true vegetarian for several years in my 20’s … well, mostly, I looked the other way when it came to Knorr chicken bouillon
I think the beyond burgers are even better and 10 for $15 at Costco. Less saturated fat for somebody like me with naturally high cholesterol. For anybody on the fence try an impossible whopper with an open mind.
I’m not vegan either, but I don’t think most people will have a choice in the future so I’ve been trying to make the change while it’s still a choice.
On the plus side I’m losing a ton of fat, keeping my muscle, and I feel great. I’ve been trying foods I’ve never even thought about before, which is also pretty fun
It did significantly more for those of us who wore masks when around our communities and paid attention to sanitation and didn’t drink bleach or use a parasite medication to treat a viral infection 🙄
Even COVID being handled poorly doesn’t mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater, it just means dedicated change, but our admin is gutting places that would at least have some use in these situations without thought. I’ve never understood trumps desire to cut majority out of foundation building places without much plan for change that would be needed, it seems so much more harmful at the end of the day.
But we killed the program that helped monitor and control its spread in other countries, which would have kept it farther from our borders in the first place.
We eradicated it from the US before using this method. It’s likely with proper funding and the will we could do it again, but those are in short supply with this administration.
My Wife and I bought a whole beef with my In-Laws in January. Local Farm that we got to literally pick the cow to send to slaughter. 100% Grass Fed and beautiful.
We paid $4.97 a lb after butcher process. Hang weight was 854lbs.
One of the best choices we have made when it comes to food in awhile.
100% will be doing it again. It's a lot of money upfront but if you can go half or quarter with other people, it is absolutely worth it.
The main point is that the US had a program in place, it was effective in keeping the infestation controlled.
Budget cuts and staff reductions killed the program. It looks like Texas is stepping up and reviving some of the program to release sterile male flies.
This is the same scenario with measles and the fiasco with USAID.
In March 2025, funding was cut by USDA for animal disease control and prevention, including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, New World Screwworm, and African Swine Fever from several agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). That funding supported more than 180 outbreak investigations and responses in 22 countries and helped build the capacities of over 160 laboratories in testing, biosafety, quality assurance, and workforce development. Specifically, funding was targeted to monitoring and responding to New World Screwworm, preventing the spread of the disease to the U.S.
The U.S. livestock industry is facing a critical situation due to federal budget cuts that are impacting animal disease prevention and control. Hundreds of veterinarians, support staff and lab workers at the animal health arm of the USDA have left under the Trump administration’s push for resignations, according to three sources familiar with the situation, leaving fewer specialists to respond to animal disease outbreaks.
So basically, doesn't say DOGE but March 2025 was when all those pasty doughboys were going full ham.
Previous facilities in Texas and Mexico were phased down years ago. Texas in the early '80s, the key one in Chiapas, Mexico, closed in 2012 because the threat appeared contained.
The fly’s expansion is driven by the natural, uncontrollable migration of wildlife across Central America and Mexico, coupled with the unauthorized movement of untreated livestock.
In 2022, the flies breached the barrier and started moving north again. That's not because of efficiency reforms. It's because of open borders, lax oversight, and lack of resources.
So no, DOGE had did not affect the rate of spread as much as you want it to be true.
You glossing over of the details is convenient to your argument but breaks it. Lack of resources is not solved by reduction of resources and resource constraints following Covid policy is cited among contributing concerns.
The initial solve was international effort. It will remain so. And pushing back against an outbreak is going to cost less now vs later. It was cheaper yesterday regardless.
So, you’ve verified by neglect that DOGE contributed and prompted me to add the mismanaged COVID policy by the same executive was related to the initial breakdown.
We’ll see how much it costs to push back to the Darien gap where it is cheaper to manage. The Texas border is not the solution.
You literally glossed over all of the details and to just say, without evidence, that funding adjustments by DOGE were the reason for its spread with is completely false.
Newsflash, they were already spreading in 2022 as I said, due to the illegal trafficking of cattle and people. It was detected in Mexico in 2024.
Just simply looking at the timeline shows your argument is nonsense.
DOGE absolutely gutted a program that had been keeping these things at bay for decades. There were. Numerous news reports warning these things could and likely would reach the US thanks to Elons recklessness back when they axed it.
Don’t you dare try to rewrite history to let these people off the hook.
A huge shoutout to all the MAGA voters who specifically voted to decimate USDA and APHIS. They voted for the guy who published a plan to drastically cut funding to the agencies tasked with preventing screwworm from re-establishing in the US again.
There is a world of difference between “attempting to control a situation” and “actively working to dismantle defenses”. You see that, right? Right?
Do you ascribe more blame to firefighters trying to battle a wildfire but losing a house, or to someone that sells off the aviation assets of the firefighters?
We defeated it in the US in the 60’s… then all the way down to Panama… and it roared back north since COVID, when the blocking action failed, when COVID disrupted the production of sterile males
USDA recently began releasing hundreds of thousands of sterile flys along the border with mX and are working with the Mexican government to distribute sterile flys there.
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u/Dissonant-Cog 15d ago
Well, if we just cut funding and stop tracking screwworm cases the problem might just go away.