Screwworms and Exploding Grain: This Week’s Ag Disasters | Rising Anxieties
Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation
Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | anxieties are rising yeah and anxieties are rising yeah and anxieties are rising a lot |
| 0:11.2 | about some things that you might not even be familiar with that i am not particularly familiar |
| 0:16.0 | with and one of them and this is really big as far as the industry is concerned, is New World Screw |
| 0:23.7 | Worm. This is their latest disease. You know, every year we have a new dreadful disease. |
| 0:29.5 | And of course, you will end up being the ones who will pay for it to get controlled. |
| 0:36.1 | Controlled. This one is just in Mexico now, but it's getting closer every day, |
| 0:40.6 | and they're a wreck. They really are. This is from Ag Daily. The growing outbreak of New World |
| 0:46.2 | Screwworm in Mexico has triggered serious concerns for U.S. agriculture, first detected in Chiapas, |
| 0:52.9 | I hope I'm pronouncing that right, in November 24, |
| 0:57.0 | New World's crewworm has now breached containment threshold, spreading more than 127 miles |
| 1:02.4 | beyond the secondary buffer zone into Washaka and Veracruz. |
| 1:07.0 | This means that it's getting closer and closer to the U.S. border, which, you know, like, diseases |
| 1:13.4 | don't really respect borders. I'll just take a quote here. The way that you control it, |
| 1:20.3 | or at least they think that you do, is to release sterile flies. I think that's sterile male flies, |
| 1:27.1 | to control the wild screwworm populations. |
| 1:30.9 | So there's all these screwworms out in the world, and they breed a whole bunch of other |
| 1:35.2 | screw worms, this whole world is so sick, that are sterile. And then they mate with the screw worms |
| 1:42.0 | who are out in the wild, and then that stops it, |
| 1:45.3 | though apparently it doesn't stop it. |
| 1:46.9 | It has been the primary tool in keeping the pest at bay, this article says. |
| 1:52.3 | Apparently it's not doing a great job. |
| 1:54.1 | The Panama facility, that's where they breed most of the, or maybe all of them, of these |
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