Two medical researchers say tick-borne meat allergy should be allowed to spread because eating meat is “morally impermissible”

NOT PARODY: ‘Beneficial Bloodsucking’: Bioethicists Want Ticks to Infect People to Stop Them from Eating Meat – ‘We argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne [allergy] are also morally impermissibl

This is not a parody. Two bioethicists have argued in the prestigious professional journal Bioethics that we should breed ticks to cause more infections of a condition that causes an allergy to red…

Two medical researchers say tick-borne meat allergy should be allowed to spread because eating meat is “morally impermissible”

Last month, a paper by two American researchers from the Western Michigan University School of Medicine was published in the journal Bioethics. In their paper, they used the warped argument that “eating meat is morally impermissible” and so “efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS are also morally impermissible.” AGS, or alpha-gal syndrome, is