Following on the post immediately below, "Inflation: "US Justice Department probes meatpackers, attorney general says"", a repost from August 17:
From the journal Bioethics, July 22, 2025:
ABSTRACT
The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat. We then defend what we call the Convergence Argument: If x-ing prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, doesn't violate anyone's rights, and promotes virtuous action or character, then x-ing is strongly pro tanto obligatory; promoting tickborne AGS satisfies each of these conditions. Therefore, promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory. It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.
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Emphasis ours. Also by Crutchfield: "The Epistemology of Moral Bioenhancement"
Previously:
April 2022 - Beware The Alpha-Gal
August 2021 - Climate: Meet the NYU, WEF Associated Bioethicist Who Wants To Genetically Modify Humans To Induce Meat Intolerance
