A 47 year old airline pilot from New Jersey following a woods romp, found his legs covered with ticks wherein he sustained a dozen bites. He became sick, went to the doctor, and recovered after a short bout of discomfort. Months later, this man attended a barbecue wherein he consumed a large portion of meat. After so doing his body rebelled, and he perished.
The attending physician was puzzled by his death, so much so that he sent tissue samples for laboratory testing. The malady that took the man’s life was AGS, Alpha Gal Syndrome, a carbohydrate found in tick saliva that caused a severe allergic reaction to red meat. Such severe allergic reaction is called anaphalaxis.
Anaphalaxis requires medical treatment, ordinarily by administration of epinephrine. However, there is a more sinister aspect of this disease that is actually political in nature.
Some scientists, professors, and climate change advocates opine that meat allergies may in the long run be beneficial to mankind by reducing livestock hence shrinking the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Even some radicals have favored purposeful genetic mutation of insects to control acceptable human food choices.
This is why I don’t go hiking.
That definitely is some messed up shit
Famed playwright George Bernard Shaw was an adamant vegetarian. According to Shaw, “Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.” Living well into his 80’s, Shaw explained his longevity, “The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”
For my own part, I’ve always had a sense of moral guilt about animals, including the human ones, being carnivores. I find it outrageous that dogs, arguably the world’s greatest creation, are consumed as food within certain cultures. Shaw speculated that, “If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”
For five years, I lived as vegetarian, and I never felt healthier, relieved of the moral guilt of a meat eater. Yet, I am backslider and sometimes think a meal is not a meal without meat. Moreover, I quell in my mind a measure of guilt of ethical morality of being a carnivore, but today, guilt resurfaced, and I find myself pondering why can’t I follow Shaw’s example.
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Thinking of you Bikks. I hope you’re doing well.
Doing as well, Warden, as an octogenarian can expect to do. I hadn’t seen your byline for quite a while, and I wondered whether you had come to foul play at the hands of the ubiquitous white supremacists, ones you claim to be the embodiment of evil. Glad to see you are extant rather than extinct.