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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They aren’t arguing that eating meat is unhealthy, they’re arguing that it’s because animals are suffering, the meat industry causes environmental damage (allegedly), and they believe they would be (allegedly) making the world better and help people become more ‘virtuous’ by avoiding meat.
“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. “
A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after people claimed it was ‘morally’ justifiable to infect rouge scientists with lead poison ... as is bullets?
ABSOLUTELY!
Look into the “deep green resistance.”
I smell Bill Gates’ fingers in this pie...at some point.
They can’t do that... I didn’t vote for it!
Do they have a number of how many people they don’t mind killing ?
Luigi Mangione has entered the chat.
“They aren’t arguing that eating meat is unhealthy”
Ask a doctor and you’ll understand what I mean.
They already have at least one notch on their belts, from a guy who died from his allergic reaction. Millions more will die of malnutrition should the Left pull this off.
They practiced with Lyme disease. These two should have been tried, convicted and hanged for crimes against humanity.
The comic books are always right that mad scientists are the enemy of humanity.
Thanks for the AGS post. There has been an unusually high amount of ticks and bites this season in my area SE Lower Michigan. My wife is pulling ticks off our cats and dog every week.
YES
This would definitely be biological terrorism. If they choose to not eat meat themselves, fine. They don’t get to decide what other people eat and don’t eat. They should be locked up for making terroristic threats. No one forces allergies on the general public. I don’t care if you are convinced you’re justified in doing it or not. Jihadists and all the other terrorists think they’re justified in threatening and/or carrying out terrorism but they absolutely are not.
“scientists claimed it was ‘morally’ justifiable to infect people with a virus making them allergic to meat”
This was so obvious from the minute this red meat tick disease
first appeared. Commumists fiddling around with genetics.
Stupid people in positions of authority. Scientists, government agents.
Stupid people.
Apparently they have already started on their crusade. Ticks in boxes are being found all over. Some near bowls of dog food. (So Fido brings the ticks to you)
Ask a doctor and you’ll understand what I mean.
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Read my post and you can understand what I mean. These people are attempting to make the “ethical” argument” not the “health” argument. Doctors have nothing to do with the “ethical” argument.
Western Michigan, eh? Do they work with Pfizer (Kalamazoo)?
Arrest them for planning a biological terrorist attack, try, convict and imprison them.
Before they can proceed with their plan.
If you plan a bombing attack but haven’t carried it out quite yet, we get to arrest, convict and imprison you.
This is not one bit different.
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