#biosecurity

Video by me and Ainsley Seago trying to explain the important work insect taxonomists do

*from fruit, vegetables and the invasive pests they carry

Chickens can get bitten by mosquitos and test positive for the virus. Normally the virus itself doesnt make a chicken with a healthy immune system sick so there isn't any danger to people flocks getting depopulated if they test positive. It would just let scientists know that the disease is in the area and people should take extra precautions to avoid mosquitos.

There are many articles linked to in this post. The Bulletin articles cited above are free to the public for a limited time.

Oh, and Phase 3 is we hack lichens to generate human DNA spore clouds and add them to architecture as a passive form of DNA cloaking

As the climate shifts and global trade quickens, plant diseases are becoming increasingly frequent, severe and widespread. Each year, pests and diseases rip through global food crops, where they cause losses of up to 30% of staple crop yields, and dramatically alter the Earth’s natural forest ecosystems. It was plant disease that made the once-dominant “Gros Michel” banana nearly commercially extinct (Fusarium wilt), turned the towering American chestnut into a mere shrub (Cryphonectria parasitica) and is currently threatening the future of coffee (Hemileia vastatrix). “There is basically always a plant disease pandemic ongoing,” said Schornack. “But most people don’t know it.”

please note that with labels like flexitarian especially it's not about 'oh i never eat these things'; it's a sliding label with things like vegan and vegetarian and pescatarian where you can identify however you feel comfortable. some people just eat meat etc on special occasions or when they go out or when they don't have time/spoons to cook something nutritious, and that's perfectly valid!! whatever you're able to do has an impact that's felt and there's no pressure to do it to whatever standard we have of 'perfect' in our heads <3