• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    The thing is, in this case you can get infected from ingesting cow milk from a cow that was infected. Once it gets into our food supply it can cause something like a flu bomb that’s going to kill a lot of people at once.

    Vegans might have a better chance of surviving in this case.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      We just test the cows so we’ll spot it quickly and hopefully it won’t spread.

      The threat is a pathogen that either we don’t even know is spreading, or we don’t know how it is spreading. A mutated H5N1 for example.

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        5 months ago

        But if we test, then maybe we’d have to not produce milk from positive cows for a short amount of time. Then someone might find it a little bit difficult to get milk for their morning cereal, and that would be a minor inconvenience.