Posted on 05/19/2026 6:28:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
In the rarefied halls of Western Michigan University’s Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Professor Parker Crutchfield teaches medical ethics. One might expect such a role to instill reverence for human dignity, bodily autonomy, and the Hippocratic admonition to first do no harm.
Instead, Crutchfield has authored arguments for covertly drugging the population to improve its “morality” and, more recently, for actively spreading a tick-borne disease to make people allergic to red meat.
This is not satire. In the journal Bioethics, Crutchfield and co-author Blake Hereth published “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which posits that if eating meat is morally wrong, then humanity has an obligation to promote the proliferation of lone star ticks carrying alpha-gal syndrome (AGS). The condition triggers severe allergic reactions to mammalian meat, causing hives, gastrointestinal distress, anaphylaxis, and in some cases, life-threatening complications.
The reasoning follows a familiar progressive script: identify a preferred lifestyle — in this case, veganism or strict vegetarianism — declare it morally obligatory, then justify any means necessary to enforce it. Peter Singer’s animal liberation philosophy undergirds the argument, treating human dietary freedom as subordinate to abstract ethical calculations about animal suffering.
History teaches us the danger of such utopian blueprints. When intellectuals claim the right to reshape human nature for the “greater good,” the results range from re-education camps to outright democide.
Crutchfield’s earlier work reveals the full scope of his vision. He has contended that moral enhancement drugs should be administered secretly because people might resist having their wills altered. Better, he suggests, that they never know their desires have been chemically constrained.
This is the logic of totalitarianism dressed in scholarly prose — the enlightened few manipulating the many for their own benefit, all while claiming benevolence.
Consider the practical horrors. Alpha-gal syndrome is no minor inconvenience. It can render everyday foods dangerous and has expanded alongside the range of the lone star tick. Public health officials rightly warn against it. Yet these professors frame the disease as a feature, not a bug.
They even carve out exceptions for certain indigenous groups with cultural hunting traditions, while dismissing the deeply rooted meat-eating practices of European, African, Asian, and Middle Eastern peoples. Such selective cultural deference exposes the selective compassion at the heart of this ideology.
The proposal also betrays a profound disregard for God’s design. Scripture presents meat as part of the created order, not an inherent evil. After the Flood, the Lord told Noah, “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things” (Genesis 9:3).
Throughout the Old Testament and into the New, meat features in covenant meals, sacrifices, and the table fellowship of Christ Himself. To treat the consumption of responsibly sourced meat as a moral failing requiring biological coercion is to reject both natural law and biblical revelation.
That a medical ethics professor at a respected institution would entertain — even hypothetically — weaponizing disease against human populations should alarm every thinking person. Academia increasingly serves as an incubator for ideas that, a generation ago, would have been confined to dystopian fiction. Today they appear in peer-reviewed journals, complete with PubMed entries and academic prestige.
Western Michigan University has placed its medical students under the tutelage of a man who believes secret chemical and biological interventions are legitimate tools for social improvement. Parents, taxpayers, and future patients have every right to demand accountability.
When those entrusted with forming the next generation of physicians advocate for covert population-level manipulation, the corruption of the academy has reached a terminal stage.
Heaven's Harvest This episode underscores a deeper civilizational choice. Will we preserve the God-given dignity of the individual, including the freedom to eat what Scripture and nature provide? Or will we surrender to a new priesthood of bioethicists who view humanity as raw material for their moral experiments? The answer will determine whether medicine remains a healing art or becomes an instrument of control.
As the psalmist reminds us, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well” (Psalm 139:14).
Any ethic that treats the human body as a canvas for ideological tinkering — whether through forced medication or engineered disease — stands in rebellion against the Creator who formed us with purpose and liberty.
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Uh, NOT his call!
Grazing impact on grasslands (in addition to fire) is absolutely necessary to sustain the disturbance that keeps native grasses and forbs reproducing. It spreads inoculum for the soil. Eco-freaks bitch about cow farts, but mourn the loss of bison.
It’s insane.
Meanwhile, the idiots are causing the melting of the permafrost and its consequent massive release of methane for the lack of managed grazing and hunting PEOPLE used to do. Without animal impact, successional processes take over, and tundra yields to taiga of brush and crappy trees that retain a thicker snow blanket which INSULATES planetary release of geothermal heating. The lack of aboriginal people and the management they used to do is what is melting the permafrost, not a degree or two of “climate change.”
These “ethicists” are seeking to kill people for the mere pleasure of ignorant self-aggrandizement.
Death to the World unless the World takes him out first
How “final solution” sounding of him. Remember it was Doctors, Lawyers, Philosophers, religious leaders (Ethicists) and Military elite who brought about Germany’s final solution.
I am very tired and wary any “educated elite.”
He’s educated beyond his intelligence................
Same here.
General Augusto Pinochet had the right approach in dealing with freaks like this so called intellectual.
When did lone star ticks develop this capability?
I grew up in the Ozarks and the lone star tick in particular was commonly the one that would get on us and sink its head in.
Never had anyone in the family have any issues with it, and we always ate a lot of beef.
Suddenly now, we are being priced out of beef and seeing fear porn everywhere about beef allergies caused by these ordinary ticks, all coinciding very conveniently with the global warming econut war on cattle.
Was this something introduced to the country to destroy business? Covid, citrus canker, lethal yellowing, emerald ash borers, zika, bird flu, swine flu, and an host of other diseases and pests etc. And most though not all of these problems seem to be coming from one country in particular.
The ‘perfessor’ thus proves that inside every commie, there’s a tyrant screaming to get out. Commies can never mind their own business.
That’s why America needs to go full Pinochet.
The underlying problem is annimal rights ideology, which goes against a core belief of all three of the major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). It’s one if the few things they all agree on: its okay to eat meat.
Crutchfield is a ghoul. I looked up some of his other papers. Here is one about “Slow Code” where he suggests physicians half-heartedly resuscitate patients and that patient’s family “understand” it’s for the best.
“Should the “slow code” be resuscitated?
Abstract
Most bioethicists and professional medical societies condemn the practice of “slow codes.” The American College of Physicians ethics manual states, “Because it is deceptive, physicians or nurses should not perform half-hearted resuscitation efforts (’slow codes’).” A leading textbook calls slow codes “dishonest, crass dissimulation, and unethical.” A medical sociologist describes them as “deplorable, dishonest and inconsistent with established ethical principles.” Nevertheless, we believe that slow codes may be appropriate and ethically defensible in situations in which cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is likely to be ineffective, the family decision makers understand and accept that death is inevitable, and those family members cannot bring themselves to consent or even assent to a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order. In such cases, we argue, physicians may best serve both the patient and the family by having a carefully ambiguous discussion about end-of-life options and then providing resuscitation efforts that are less vigorous or prolonged than usual.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22047113/
In addition to “Beneficial Bloodsucking” (for attacking the entire human population), here are a few of Crutchfield’s publications on his insanely demonic ideas:
“Moral dilemmas and slow codes” (2025)
“Welfare, Abortion, and Organ Donation: A Reply to the Restrictivist” (2024)
“Mental Privacy, Cognitive Liberty, and Hog-tying” (2024)
“Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics” (2024)
“The Duty to Edit the Human Germline” (2022)
“The Duty to Protect, Abortion, and Organ Donation” (2022)
For allowing Crutchfield to be one of its professors, Western Michigan University should have its academic accreditation revoked and its campus sown with salt.
The Bioethics journal, edited by Ruth Chadwick and Udo Schüklenk, should be declared a terrorist organization for publishing these articles.
Hitler was a vegetarian. He might want to recalibrate his moral compass.
He should have stuck to car radios.
The problem with going full Pinochet is the likely hood of going full Pol Pot or Stalin.
Following this path goes against everything the United States stands for. We have a Constitution that was designed for a moral, informed, and united people. We are not this type of citizen(in general) no longer.
The only way I see for us to return to the Constitutional path is to return to God and the Constitution as well as following the law thus removing the corruption.
Until we can bring ourselves back from this abyss, we are skating on thin ice indeed.
The problem with jihad or crusade is that it will be ultimately led by corrupt people.
My dog was bitten by a tick last year and now has anaplasmosmis. He is now on meds and will be on them for the rest of his shortened life.
Do I want revenge, am I angry? You bet.
I’m not ready to pass out burning torches and pitchforks yet. Do I expect justice to be done? Not in this life.
I don’t think spreading that is as easy as doomers are making it sound. Yes, it can trigger the reaction in certain people, but I’m not convinced it isn’t a multifactor issue, where the tick spreading vector is just one part of what is required to create this allergy in a person.
Slow codes were done on Pedes units back in the 70s. Both staff and parents had difficulty with DNR for children, a slow code got around it.
Talking about children with no chance of recovery.
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