The Persuasive Bite of the Tick that turns Carnivores into Vegans
- Paul Watson
- il y a 8 heures
- 2 min de lecture
By Captain Paul Watson
Hiding in the grass, possibly lurking in your garden is a tiny little creature that has the power to turn a carnivores into herbivores.
The tiny garapata called the Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) can be identified by the lone star pattern on its back.
Moving northward from the Lone Star State (Texas) thanks to climate change that many of its victims deny, this tiny little tick has a very persuasive bite that can convert a steak eating, hamburger munching, pork chop loving good old boy into becoming a reluctant vegan.
Once confined to the South and Midwest, it has now invaded the Northeast United States.
Is this nature striking back or a nefarious conspiracy by vegan-promoting fanatics to reduce the population of meat eaters? Was this a dark plot where alpha-gal was incorporated into the covid vaccine to cripple MAGA? Not surprising that conspiracy theories abound considering that it is a tragedy for meat-eaters and cause for celebration amongst vegans.
Alpha gal is not of course in any vaccine. It’s simply a carbohydrate or sugar called galactose-alpha-1-3 galactose (alpha-gal) that the Lone Star Tick acquires from sucking the blood of mice, rabbits, deer, or other woodland animals.
One tiny bite can infect a human with a condition called alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) that causes a human body to force an allergic reaction to meat or other animal products.
Alpha-gal is also spread in Australia by the paralysis tick (ixodes holcylus). Australia has the highest infection rate followed by the USA. Cases of alpha gal syndrome have been found in 17 countries although not as prevalent as in the USA and Australia but in all cases associated with a tick bites.
Alpha-gal syndrome cases are practically epidemic now. A hospital in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts has demonstrated a 42% positive for testing of alpha-gal from tick bite victims.
Sales of steaks and hamburgers in Martha Vineyard restaurants are down and barbeques from Texas across to Florida have become places of panicked concern with participants cautiously armed with epi-pens.
And if a severe allergy to meat is not a sufficient blow to MAGA masculinity, studies have demonstrated that the condition can be more severe if accompanied by alcohol.
Chicken wings and beer, steaks and whiskey; talk about a nightmare for meat eaters.
Perhaps mother nature has found a solution to the excessive consumption of animal flesh by an excessive number of human beings.
There is no cure for alpha-gal syndrome, but the best possible preventive measures are protecting tick eating animals like possums, bats, chickens, lizards, chipmunks, wild turkeys and guineafowl, some of which the usual suspects are inclined to shoot as “vermin.”
Vegans are gloating, animals are happier and MAGA masculinity is imploding.
Maybe, just maybe, there is a God, and she’s smiling down on her until now defenseless lamb.