Remember to check for ticks after your next stroll through the woods or long grasses.
  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    318·
    24 days ago

    I’m no vegan but isn’t this technically a good thing? Red meat has negative environmental impacts right?

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      252·
      24 days ago

      My first thought reading the headline was ‘the Earth is healing,’ LOL

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      23 days ago

      isn’t this technically a good thing?

      Far from it. There shouldn’t be anywhere near this many ticks as there are now. It’s a sign that the climate is changing and that is getting warmer overall.

      Where I live is considered to be the tick hotspot in all of Canada. 15 years ago it would be wildly rare to hear that someone had a tick on them. Now it’s rare to hear the opposite. Go for a hike in the trails nearby and you can easily walk out with at least a few dozen on you.

      And it’s not just the temperature itself. It’s that the climate is affecting everything in the ecosystem.

      We’re going to see crazy tropical infections and parasites migrating a bit more north every year, and we’re not ready for it.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      34·
      24 days ago

      Probably. In some situations where there are no predators and you have semi-wild herbivores roam (usually goats, they are the least picky eaters) to eat forest fuel to prevent forest fires, it might be an ecological solution. But otherwise, yeah, red meat is something to reduce, not sure if this will be enough.

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        24 days ago

        Not exactly goats, but kinda.

        The same thing applies to roe deer in most of Europe. It has to be culled due to a lack of natural predators. They would eat everything, ruin the ecology and then be on the roads increasing crashes and human deaths.

        And can’t really introduce wolf populations into populated European zones which haven’t had proper predators for ages.

        I’m against industrial meat farms, but not eating meat as a concept. There’s just no need for the type of animal torturing powerfarming that is so common in, like, the US. (Watch Clarkson’s farm for instance to see British farming.)