War on Meat: Has Tick-borne “Thought Experiment” Become Full-blown Biowarfare?
You may recall an article by a couple of bioethics professors that appeared a few months back in a science journal and caused more than a minor kerfuffle for proposing that it might be beneficial to the planet to spread lone star ticks around. Why? Because these ticks spread what is called the alpha-gal syndrome (AGS). It takes its name from galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a sugar present in the meat of most mammals. The immune systems of tick-bite victims can develop allergic antibodies to the meat-sugar and can then have a severe allergic reaction when they eat red meat (beef, pork, lamb).
The two “ethicists,” Western Michigan University professors Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, published their proposal, entitled “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” in the October 2025 issue of the journal Bioethics. “Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible,” say the dangerous duo. They continue: “It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.” They’ve drunk the climate cult Kool-Aid. Preventing the spread of this plague is “morally impermissible,” and promoting its proliferation is “morally obligatory,” because reducing meat consumption will supposedly reduce our carbon footprint, which will supposedly reduce global warming. When their article caused a public backlash, the authors hid behind the excuse that it was merely a philosophical “thought experiment.”
Lone Star Ticks
However, the lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) and the AGS meat allergy they cause are not mere thought experiments; they are very real. They have rapidly spread to 27 states, from Texas to Maine. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as many as 450,000 Americans may be affected. But some experts say the CDC number is “almost certainly an undercount” because most health providers are not familiar with the disease, its symptoms, and the testing protocols for it.
In recent days and weeks, health authorities in Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, Delaware, Missouri, and Ohio have alerted the public to the emerging threat. “A once-rare allergy that can cause severe reactions hours after eating red meat is dramatically rising across the United States,” according to researchers at VCU Health and Virginia Commonwealth University. “The condition, known as alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), is typically linked to bites from the lone star tick and is increasingly recognized as a growing health concern in many regions of the country,” reports VCU Health, while Vinay Jahagirdar, M.D., a gastroenterology fellow at VCU, says that “alpha-gal syndrome is unlike any other food allergy we treat.”
Conspiracy Theory?
So, in light of the extreme “morally obligatory” mindset of many climate cultists, the rapid and curious spread of the lone star tick threat, and the decade-long propaganda campaign against meat, can we spare people from the “conspiracy theorist” label for suspecting that this new pestilence might have been engineered? That it might have come from the same type of gain-of-function research that erupted from the Wuhan Lab to infect the world? The jet-setting billionaire globalists of Davos and their Beijing comrades dine on (and invest in) luxury wagyu and Kobe beef ($200-$500 per pound, and even as high as $1,000) while lecturing us about the need to drastically cut our meat intake. We’re thinking, for example, of World Economic Forum heavyweights such as Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Forrest, Oliver Bäte, and Bill Gates, to name but a few.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations have been among the most aggressive promoters of an anti-meat diet. Here is just a smattering of the many anti-meat, pro-bug, pro-vegan articles, reports, and videos from the WEF:
- “Will you be eating insects soon?”
- “We must eat less meat. Could these three alternatives help save our planet?”
- “5 reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change”
- “Good grub: why we might be eating insects soon”
- “Burgers, bugs and the shift to a new way of eating”
- “Worms for dinner? Europe backs insect-based food in a bid to promote alternative protein”
- “This London insect farm is changing the way we eat”
- “Fancy a bug burger? A Swiss supermarket is selling food made from insects.”
Then, of course, there’s the infamous WEF video “8 Predictions for the World in 2030.” Besides forecasting that in 2030 “You’ll own nothing, And you’ll be happy,” it also said that “You’ll eat much less meat … an occasional treat, not a staple. For the good of the environment and our health.”
Accompanying this elitist propaganda drumbeat is a rollout of “dietary guidelines” by government wokists throughout the world and their foundation-funded think tanks calling for massive cuts in animal protein (eggs and dairy as well as meat) and transitioning to bugs, plants, and fake, lab-grown “meat.” (See here, here, here, and here.)
Follow the Leader
China is supposed to be the leader that we follow. Communist dictator Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have been getting kudos from the green globalists and the loony Left since 2016, when the CCP’s scientists issued guidelines calling on the Chinese people to reduce meat consumption by 50 percent by 2030. But even with Hollywood biggies Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron pushing the message, the Chinese people don’t seem to be heeding the CCP guidelines; meat consumption continues to rise.
Nevertheless, the greenies are always happy to sing the Beijing regime’s praises. It is a replay of the same hypocrisy regarding China’s ridiculous pledges to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases under the UN’s 2015 Paris Agreement hoax, even while the country continues breaking those pledges and continuing its breakneck pace of adding coal-fired plants that are demonized and verboten elsewhere. Beijing has been on a coal binge for a decade and a half, and in recent years has accounted for 90-93 percent of new coal-fired plants constructed worldwide and over half of the coal-fired power generated globally.
Conflict of Interest
None of this bothers Allianz CEO Oliver Bäte, a rabid greenie as well as a member of the ultra-elite Trilateral Commission. In an expletive-laden rant at the WEF’s 2026 Davos gathering, Bäte blasted business and political leaders who are backing off ESG (environmental, social, and governance framework) and extreme NetZero policies due to public backlash. And, echoing other globalists, he said that “the role model here is China.”
Is it perhaps that Bäte’s business judgment in these matters is being blinded (and tainted) by the fact that the German-based financial services giant, with over $2.5 trillion in assets under management, is deeply in bed with Beijing? Allianz was the first wholly foreign-owned life insurer in China in 2021, after partnering with CITIC Group, “a primary collaborator of the PRC government’s intelligence apparatus and the PLA [People’s Liberation Army].” Like other globalist corporations, Allianz intends to expand its footprint and profits in the Chinese market, while helping the CCP (as George Soros put it) “own” the New World Order.
Not Far-fetched
So, could it possibly be that the globalist-communist elites are losing patience with their lecturing, hectoring, indoctrinating approach with the uncooperative masses of unwoke, unwashed booboisie who stubbornly cling to their steaks, burgers, ribs, and barbecue grills? Would they possibly have resorted to “enhancing” certain “beneficial bloodsucking” vectors to speed the reduction in meat consumption, as suggested by Crutchfield and Hereth? Sound far-fetched? Then, maybe you should watch the video interview by Veronika Kyrylenko and read the transcript of her interview of researcher Kris Newby, author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, which presents credible, disturbing evidence that Lyme disease may have been bioengineered in government laboratories. This is one of many pressing issues that our elected officials must investigate. If you’re not ready to give up your red meat, you’ll get on them about it — and soon, because the lone star ticks keep spreading.
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