{"id":83268,"date":"2026-06-03T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83268"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:51:33","slug":"outrage-over-ticks-meat-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/outrage-over-ticks-meat-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage Over Ticks, Meat Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Mondon Mail\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after scientists claimed it was &#8216;morally&#8217; justifiable to infect people with a virus making them allergic to meat. Researchers\u00a0Parker Crutchfield and\u00a0Blake Hereth from\u00a0Western\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-d5524330-5ed1-11f1-b854-4bc9576ff137\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/michigan\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Michigan<\/a><\/span>\u00a0University published an inflammatory paper in 2025, making the case that society had a moral &#8216;duty&#8217; to spread ticks that were infected with or engineered to carry alpha-gal syndrome (AGS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">AGS is a real medical condition transmitted to humans through tick bites, causing victims to suffer allergic reactions when eating\u00a0red meat, including beef, pork and lamb, dairy and other products derived from mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mondon Mail\u00a0[caution tabloid]: A recently unearthed study has set off a tidal wave of outrage after scientists claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}