Posted on 06/03/2026 1:57:43 PM PDT by algore
A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after scientists claimed it was 'morally' justifiable to infect people with a virus making them allergic to meat.
Researchers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth from Western Michigan University published an inflammatory paper in 2025, making the case that society had a moral 'duty' to spread ticks that were infected with or engineered to carry alpha-gal syndrome (AGS).
AGS is a real medical condition transmitted to humans through tick bites, causing victims to suffer allergic reactions when eating red meat, including beef, pork and lamb, dairy and other products derived from mammals.
The symptoms can range from a mild case of hives or stomach pain to severe and even life-threatening cases of anaphylaxis - where blood pressure suddenly drops and the person becomes unable to breathe as their airways swell up.
Crutchfield and Hereth claimed that it was morally wrong to eat meat because of the suffering animals endure and the environmental damage that the meat industry allegedly causes.
They argued that the only reason society should not be spreading ticks to infect people with AGS today is that scientists do not currently have an easy and effective way to do it on a large scale.
However, they added: 'But it is feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If we are right, then today we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation.'
Their main findings were that promoting genetically modified ticks to spread AGS would make the world better and help people become more 'virtuous' by avoiding meat.
They also claimed that this process would not violate anyone's rights, despite proposing to intentionally infect the population with a life-threatening infection.
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Aka terrorists.
For LIFE? How about executing some of the Mother .eff rrs?
Look up Crutchfield and Hereth. Major gaydar alert.
Yet more proof that all leftist/globalist filth must somehow be removed from all participation in civilized societies and put somewhere where they can no longer do the human race harm.
Nailed it.
How is this not a crime against humanity? Why are there no prosecutions of these vermin?
In a just world, scientists would be looking to CURE this affliction.
Why have so many Americans contracted A-gal recently?
Why is this in the news at this time.
No reason to investigate MRA vaccines, right?
Anyone who actually engages in or even attempts to engage in such a program should be executed. Immediately and without prejudice. I am serious.
Kalamazoo ... trying hard to be East Madison
Sure don’t understand people wanting to do something like this “in the name of science”. I just don’t get it unless they are suggesting biological warfare, but to do it to keep people from eating meat sounds crazy to me.
I doubt the plaque, more likely a mass grave, the communist preferred burial method.
The chicken shouldn’t have affected you if it was alpha gal.
News on the alpha gal problem might cause people to reduce red meats in their diets which would have an effect on beef prices on the markets. Middlemen who have been charging huge prices on beef in the store might find no one will buy their meets.
,,, eight billion people on the planet and these two terrorists get to be the judges.
This is known as a “deflection”.
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