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You just can’t make this stuff up.

A pair of so-called “bioethicists” from Western Michigan University published a jaw-dropping paper last year arguing that alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) — the red meat allergy spread by lone star tick bites — is actually a good thing.

They even titled the paper "Beneficial Bloodsucking."

The bioethicists believe that "if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS are also morally impermissible." They argue that AGS is actually a "moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat." And in their twisted view of the world, fewer farting cows means a win for the climate cult.

Of course, the idea that farting cows contribute to climate change is baseless, as methane emissions by livestock have a negligible effect on Earth’s temperature. So "killing all the 1.6 billion cattle on Earth" would cause a temperature change of about −0.04 C. That's it.

But forget about that because Western Michigan Medical Ethics Professor Parker Crutchfield and Assistant Professor Blake Hereth feel it's morally obligatory to promote the spread of tick-borne AGS.

These guys are tenured professors at a respected medical school, attaching their names to the idea that turning Americans into reluctant vegetarians via tick bites is ethically good.

How is that ethical?!

A direct rebuttal paper titled, Why It Is Wrong to Promote Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A Response to Crutchfield and Hereth appeared two months ago (ahead of the print edition of Bioethics, 2026).

Authors Rainer Ebert and Christian Koeder call the idea of deliberately spreading AGS “morally indefensible and counterproductive.” They point out that forcing a chronic condition on people won’t magically fix animal agriculture or the environment, and the ethical gymnastics required to label a tick-borne illness “beneficial” collapse under basic moral scrutiny.

The fact that Crutchfield and Hereth’s paper was published in the first place says everything you need to know about where parts of the “medical ethics” crowd are headed.

First it was “you will eat ze bugs” and now it's “maybe the ticks can work for us.”

If bioethicists succeed in normalizing tick-borne allergies as “morally justified” and “beneficial,” what’s next?

P.S. For all of you sending us the footage of ticks being dropped into fields and farms allegedly as part of some kinda psychotic Bill Gates evil experiment... please understand that we have absolutely no way of verifying those videos. We can, however, verify that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded experiments involving ticks, for instance:

• Grant INV-025721 (March 2021): $1,400,652 to Flyttr Limited (Oxitec) for 27 months for feasibility assessment of a self-limiting R. microplus for sustainable tick control (using the same "friendly" gene-driven technology as their mosquito and crop-pest projects).
• Grant INV-045130 (April 2023): $7,613,159 to Flyttr Limited (Oxitec) for 37 months to initiate development of a self-limiting tick for sustainable control of the tropical cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus.
• Grant INV-067588 (February 2026): $4,489,503 for safe, affordable tick-control treatments to reduce disease and support dairy production (no drug residues in milk).
• Grant INV-076017 (February 2025): $2,359,166 for tailored solutions to control severe livestock diseases in East Africa.
• Additional earlier grants supported surveys of tick communities, acaricide resistance, and a 2015/2022 expert meeting on cattle tick vaccines and control.
• MAHABA landscaping study to effectively controll ticks/tick-borne diseases)
• Over $1 million total to adapt the Nanotrap® nanoparticle platform (originally for malaria, Ebola, TB) to detect Lyme disease antigen in urine.

We can also verify that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has close ties to an NIH-funded malaria study that used genetically modified mosquitoes to vaccinate humans, which seems worth remembering.

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