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GeekyBear ◴[] No.44434645[source]
The standard practice for commercial crops is to bring in commercial hives of bees for pollination season that are shipped together via truck from crop to crop and region to region.

https://sweetharvestfoods.com/the-commercial-honey-bee-trave...

That sounds like a great opportunity to spread the resistant parasites from hive to hive and region to region.

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drtgh ◴[] No.44435737[source]
OffTopic: Something similar to fishing vessels,

Fishing vessels are spreading parasites at hyper-accelerated speeds. This happens when they clean the guts of infected fish at sea without prior treatment and when they discard untargeted fish in the same way; The parasites disperse exponentially, within a loop, when such parasitised food spreads through the trophic. This has already happened on a planetary level.

Also, to note, I think that if they start droping frozen guts into the sea as a treatment, our main defensive barrier at home (to froze fish some days before consumption) will eventually disappear when the parasites adapt (ie. not freezing them long enough until they die due neglect, would progressively disperse freeze-resistant strains in the wild).

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ponector ◴[] No.44437721[source]
First time I hear someone is freezing fresh fish at home. Everyone I know tries to eat fresh never-frozen fish.

I thought the main barier is to apply intense heat to the fish, not to freeze it.

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1. dzhiurgis ◴[] No.44438544[source]
In NZ if you do your own fishing you freeze guts and frames so you don't stink your rubbish bin and you drop it back to ocean on your next trip. Keeps chilly bin cold too.