• @yesman
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    747 months ago

    The problem isn’t that we pet birds, it’s that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

    This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

    *not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.

    • @[email protected]
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      287 months ago

      I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

      It’s because we spread HIV within our own population more commonly with sex than cannibalism

    • @[email protected]OP
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      57 months ago

      But domesticated birds are not good carriers of influenza, specifically. Unlime wild birds, they do get sick. Otherwise, I totally agree.

  • @Zehzin
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    337 months ago

    What wild birds out there letting you pet them?

    • @too_high_for_this
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      237 months ago

      The elites don’t want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home I have 458 ducks

      • @Cort
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        17 months ago

        It’s a shame passenger pigeon nets have fallen out of style. I imagine you could catch a lot of ducks with one of those

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      It’s fledgling season in the northern hemisphere, and lots of fledglings don’t naturally have a ton of fear of humans. Adult birds might also ‘let’ people pet them after a window strike; they don’t always look like a bloody mess so people don’t always realize how injured they are.

    • @Tabula_stercore
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      57 months ago

      There are no wild birds, because there are no birds at all. You can pet the drone once the battery has run out

  • @superduperpirate
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    197 months ago

    Let’s just hope Randy Marsh doesn’t go fuck a pangolin again

  • @[email protected]
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    127 months ago

    Are you implying that pandemics are created by the government and spread by governmental drones?

    • @Opisek
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      107 months ago

      They can be enemy drones, too.

      • pancakes
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        77 months ago

        Actually, foreign espionage is illegal so it cannot

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        When I’m talking about the government, I’m not talking about some shadow government like the Bundesregierung of German or the president of the US. I’m talking about the deep state government

  • @hakunawazo
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    7 months ago

    Pandemic, you say?

  • atro_city
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    97 months ago

    Isn’t the problem more that it’s now in cows and people in the US are refusing to stop buying it? Even worse, they are buying it on purpose?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      37 months ago

      I think there it’s more the overuse of antibiotics to speed up growth. Idk, I just ripped the info from a lecture. xD