Bioethicists at Michigan Medical SchoolArgue It Is “Morally Obligatory” to Release Engineered Ticks…

May 16th, 2026

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Bioethicists at Michigan Medical School Argue It Is “Morally Obligatory” to Release Engineered Ticks That Make You Allergic to Meat

They want to release these on you. On purpose.

You are not going to believe this one, but every word is sourced and footnoted.

Two professors of medical ethics at Western Michigan University’s medical school just published a peer-reviewed paper in a major academic journal arguing that it is, quote, “morally obligatory” to release genetically engineered ticks on the American public so that more of us become permanently allergic to beef, pork, and lamb.

The paper is called “Beneficial Bloodsucking.” It was published in the journal Bioethics in 2025. The authors are Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, and they teach the future doctors of America in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Here is what they actually wrote. They call the disease-carrying tick a “moral bioenhancer.” They say we have an obligation to “expose others” to alpha-gal syndrome, the meat allergy spread by the lone star tick.

They say we should “undermine attempts to cure” the allergy. They say AGS is not even a disease, so it does not need a cure.

Their plan is to use CRISPR gene editing to redesign the tick so it can survive in more environments, including cities, possibly by hitching rides on rats.

They cite the gene-edited mosquito programs already operating in other countries as their working model.

Their justification is that eating red meat is morally wrong, and since you will not stop on your own, the credentialed class at a state-affiliated medical school is going to make the decision for you.

They argue this is not a violation of your rights, just a tolerable, quote, “infringement,” same as a vaccine mandate.

Nobody is going to ask you. Nobody is going to put it on a ballot. One of the same authors previously published a paper in the same journal titled “Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert,” meaning forced biological modification of the population should be kept hidden from the population.

This is not a parody site. This is not a tweet.

This is a peer-reviewed paper sitting in the flagship journal of the bioethics field, written by tenured professors at a medical school, available right now on PubMed.

The Founders had a phrase for the principle these professors just casually walked past. It was called “consent of the governed.” Apparently, a tick does not need your consent.”