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.