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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@helianthropy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>helianthropy</span></a></span> </p><p>In some ways it's similar to global warming. There's adaptation (dealing with climate chaos and warming) and there's mitigation (reducing GHG emissions). </p><p>Mitigation is more effective and less effortful overall, but adaptation is easier early and grows exponentially difficult over time.</p><p>People in this civilization tend to prefer adaptation over mitigation. Part of that is because it's reactive, so it doesn't require using our brains to plan ahead and organize. But it's also because of people having optimism: collectively - optimism that "someone will figure it out" and individually - "it won't affect me, I'm special!"</p><p>Mitigation for both global problems, Anthropogenic Global Warming and the rise of the "Pandemicene", requires an end to animal farming. </p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pandemicene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemicene</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/zoonosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoonosis</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/animalFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animalFarming</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/goVegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goVegan</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/bigMeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigMeat</span></a></p>
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p>"How Close Are We to the Avian Flu Outbreak Escalating Into a Pandemic?"</p><p><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-close-are-we-avian-flu-outbreak-escalating-pandemic-49241" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-c</span><span class="invisible">lose-are-we-avian-flu-outbreak-escalating-pandemic-49241</span></a></p><p>A nice and readable article. I'll only quote one paragraph:</p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>Where are we now? As Dr. Jeremy Faust, a Harvard Medical School physician, warns, “our current circumstance is akin to a game of Russian Roulette — and there have never been more bullets in the chamber.”<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/birdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birdFlu</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/avianInfluenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avianInfluenza</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/mooFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mooFlu</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/zoonosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoonosis</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/zoonoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoonoses</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pandemicene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemicene</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/animalFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animalFarming</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/goVegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goVegan</span></a></p>
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p>A seminar on Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) by an expert: </p><p>"The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza - Prof Thijs Kuiken"</p><p>The useful part is probably the quick history of H5N1 and its HPAI version. Spoiler: it's because of bird farms. The whole presentation has a veterinary and epidemiological angle, it's not by vegans or for vegans. </p><p>Note: the presented data is outdated now in terms of how much more the virus has spread, but the rest is solid. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD8sLFfvo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD8sLFfv</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p>Keep these bits of information in mind for the near future when the conspiracy clowns will come out claiming that it's a "lab leak" or some other red herring. </p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/HPAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HPAI</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/h5n1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>h5n1</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/bridFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bridFlu</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/avianInfluenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avianInfluenza</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pasteurization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pasteurization</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/milk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>milk</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/mooFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mooFlu</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/rawMilk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rawMilk</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pandemicene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemicene</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/epdemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epdemic</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/zoonosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoonosis</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/panzootic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>panzootic</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/goVegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goVegan</span></a></p>
RebelGeek99<p>It's a little over 2.5y out from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> adopting a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/letitrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letitrip</span></a> approach to an airborne pandemic. My <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> feed is brimming with former healthcare, science, and education colleagues feasting inside restaurants, partying at packed concerts and bars. What almost never makes it into the socials are the texts about how they're almost too ill to show up to work, how half their vacation was spent with a bad cold, or how they can't do anything because their kids are sick again. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemicene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemicene</span></a></p>
Jonas Hellö Pr.D.<p>As hard as people struggle with something as simple as to understand why meat is bad, or why they should change their ways for the climate, I really have no trouble understanding why pandemic issues are difficult for the majority.</p><p>But for the pandemic *aware* crowd, why you all are not vegan is beyond me.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/govegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>govegan</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SARS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARS</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/pandemicene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemicene</span></a></p>