The Matt Walsh Show Ep. 1693 - The Tick That Makes People Allergic To Meat Is Real & The Climate Cult Wants To Breed Trillions More
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Nov 18, 2025 Public health authorities are pushing for reduced meat consumption, with alarming proposals to induce meat allergies through ticks. Rising cases of alpha-gal syndrome raise questions about awareness and diagnosis among doctors. Meanwhile, Hollywood faces a dismal year in box office sales, signaling potential industry collapse. On a more controversial note, AI technology is now enabling the creation of avatars of deceased loved ones, sparking ethical debates about grief and memory.
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Pilot's Fatal Reaction After Tick Bites
- A 47-year-old New Jersey airline pilot developed alpha-gal syndrome after multiple tick bites and died after eating a hamburger.
- Doctors later identified AGS in his blood, marking a first reported fatality possibly linked to the tick-borne meat allergy.
Why AGS Causes Delayed Reactions
- Alpha-gal is a sugar molecule present in most mammals but not humans that can trigger delayed allergic reactions after eating mammal meat.
- Because the sugar is stored in fat, reactions can appear hours later, complicating diagnosis and linking food to anaphylaxis.
Bioethics Proposal To Engineer Meat Aversion
- Bioethicist Matthew Lau proposed 'human engineering' to induce meat intolerance, including meat patches to curb consumption.
- He explicitly suggested stimulating immune responses to bovine proteins as a behavioral-control tool to reduce meat-eating.
