this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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You'll never believe what happened next! Could we please bypass the clickbait in these posts? Thanks.
Blech. The opening to the article isn't any better, and they clearly buried the lede to keep you scrolling. Here's the gist:
Vultures eat cattle carcasses.
Anti-inflammatory cattle medicine Diclofenac is toxic to birds.
Price of Diclofenac falls in 1994, becomes widely used.
95% of vultures in India die over 1990s and 2000s.
Diclofenac banned in 2006.
Rotting livestock carcasses, no longer picked to the bones by vultures, polluted waterways and fed an increase in feral dogs and rabies.
Districts with no vultures saw uptick in human deaths. Districts with vultures saw no uptick. About 500,000 excess deaths across India.
What a fucking terrible article.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't this lead to issues with a sort of sky burial religious practice in that area as well?
Yep. Page 30 in the referenced study.