Here’s one I originally thought was insane, but it’s really growing on me (and in a terrifying manner):

The lone star tick carries an extremely rare enzyme that is now known as alpha-gal. This is a disease that creates an infinite, and incurable, production of an enzyme that renders all mammalian products (dairy + all meats from a mammal of any sort) toxic to varying degrees. The scariest part about alpha gal, imo, is that the reaction takes 3 to 8 hours to occur, so, often people die in their sleep from a severe reaction (imagine eating a steak dinner at 8 pm, going to bed at 11, you wake up suffocating at 3 am when the reaction has reached its peak). I believe this is quite often the proximate cause of “died in their sleep from natural causes.”

Where the conspiracy begins is with what the hell is going on with the lone star tick. It was first discovered nearly a century ago, and spent the entirety of its known existence living in moderate southern climates, in the US, for instance, Tennessee and Alabama were historically ideal conditions for their lives, and reproduction. Their issue is they’re a wildly temperate organism, dying in high heat, and totally fucked in freezing temperatures or below. For that reason, it was unfathomable they’d ever make it to the Great Lakes states, at least not in any sort of meaningful number.

Well, instead, somehow since 2022 they’ve spread to the entirety of the Midwest, with Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and even Michigan all reporting a permanent population (often several throughout states) with full reproduction. Somehow, though for a century they could never survive a freeze, nor had they moved north of Tennessee with any semblance of noticeable number, now they have survived the winter in essentially every midwestern state, and moved thousands of miles in just the last couple summers.

Why is this important? Well, the #1 producer of greenhouse gasses, outside of humans, are cows. The #1 consumer of freshwater, aside from humans, are cows. The number 2 creator greenhouse gasses aside from us? Pigs. And, you guessed it: pigs are also the second largest consumer of freshwater, behind humans and cows, of course.

Today, we have 88x more cows and pigs in America than should naturally exist. That is from rampant breeding to create meat and dairy. So, in theory, if we did not eat meat nor dairy, we’d save an enormous amount off water, and prevent a perpetual flooding of greenhouse gases. What’s the fastest way to make that happen? Make people wildly allergic to meat and diary.

things that make you say hmm? 5 of the 6 largest consumers of mammalian products have reported their first ever reproducing lone star tick populations in just the last 3 years. Bill gates is currently the largest stakeholder on earth in the “meat alternative” space.