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DIRECTOR OF BIOETHICS AT NYU: "People eat too much meat… There’s this thing called the Lone Star tick, where if it bites you, you will become allergic to meat…"
"That’s something we can do through human engineering."
This sounds like bioterrorism dressed up as bioethics.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH@NicHulscher
PEER-REVIEWED PAPER SAYS GENETICALLY ENGINEERING TICKS TO SPREAD MEAT ALLERGIES IS “MORALLY OBLIGATORY” Western Michigan professors claim that CRISPR-edited ticks should be used to spread alpha-gal syndrome as “moral bioenhancement” to FORCE humans away from eating meat. This sounds like bioterrorism dressed up as bioethics. CDC estimates that as many as 450,000 people in the United States may already be affected by alpha-gal syndrome. Think about what is being proposed here: deliberately developing genetically modified ticks to spread a potentially life-threatening meat allergy that may already affect nearly half a million Americans.
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