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I see the vegans are escalating their tactics.

"to areas previously too cold", huh... i wonder what happened...

Well, the upside is less meat consumption is good for the environment I guess.

Nature will always win.

Every time I go hiking with my dog I pull one of these little bastards off his fur. I cover him in permethrin, as well as every inch of my clothing, shoes and hat, so I'm not SUPER stressed about it, but it's still annoying. A couple days ago I found one in his tail floof (he's a golden so it's a giant poof.) The tick was near dead already by the time I got it untangled from his fur thanks to the permethrin though. Usually I spot the ticks on him either because they're on his head (where they're easy to spot immediately), or because they got tangled in his fur and couldn't jump off. I've never once seen one bite him thankfully.

It's wild to me because I have only seen other kinds of ticks twice so far this season, but otherwise it's all lone star ticks, which are not supposed to be the most common where I am. They're definitely more prominent this year though. Of all the tick diseases, alpha-gal terrifies me the most, so I'm not thrilled by this increase in lone stars.

Funny, humanity contributing to the reduction of the climate crisis by increasing the number of ticks causing people to become allergic to meat, meaning less demand for meat, meaning less greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere as cattle becomes less profitable.

Vegans:

Meat allergy? Unpleasant but ironically good for the environment.

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”

Well, that's a horrifying image.

The syndrome is not caused by a pathogen but spurs an allergy to a sugar molecule found in mammals and an array of other things, from toothpaste to medical equipment.

Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.

A particular horror is the prospect of brushing up against vegetation containing a massed ball of juvenile lone star ticks, know as a “tick bomb”, that can deliver thousands of tick bites. “They are so tiny you can’t see them but you have to take it seriously or you’ll never get them off you,” said Forsyth, who now carries around a lint roller to remove such clusters.

Meat production is a major contributor to climate change. This is almost as if nature is acting in self defense.

Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.

Took us vegans a long time, but after hours in our labs we finally are ready to roll out our bio weapon.

Don't worry. The meat industry will find a cure fast

This year has been insane. I have pulled a dozen off my wife, myself and my child, and probably another dozen off my dog. Luckily none latched on so far.

One time I saw a lone star tick crawl into the headphone jack of my phone.

I tried everything I could think of to get it out, to no avail. Then I googled two things:

• What eats ticks?

• Guinea hen mating sounds

After fifteen seconds of guinea hen sounds, I watched the tick crawl out of my phone... and immediately disappear.

One of my friends got hit with this. They will have a violent allergic reaction even if they eat fries cooked in beef fat.

And so their task force begins…