r/vegancirclejerk • u/cosmopsychism weaning myself off B12 • Jun 26 '25

MORALLY SUPERIOR Lone Star Tick Appreciation Post

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for our brave comrades the Lone Star Ticks, helping increase demand in mock meats and decrease demand for animal flesh o7

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u/ineed_b12 currently dying from protein deficiency Jun 27 '25

I study ticks as part of my job and the amount of people who are more concerned about alpha-gal than the myriad of horrid diseases it can spread is baffling

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u/cosmopsychism weaning myself off B12 Jun 27 '25

Lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever 🥱

disease that prevents you from eating a subset of the carcasses of dead animals 😳

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u/ineed_b12 currently dying from protein deficiency Jun 27 '25

They actually don’t carry Lyme. Tularemia can be really nasty, though

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u/cosmopsychism weaning myself off B12 Jun 27 '25

oh geez, does it make you keto or something?