saw this yesterday

 

 

 

This bug’s bite could turn you into a vegetarian

 

 

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No — really.

It’s called the “Lone Star tick.” But unlike the Lone Star State — Texas — it will not whet your appetite for barbecue.

Thanks to the tiny creature, a tide of involuntary vegetarianism is rolling up the Eastern seaboard, where it is the likely cause of thousands of cases of severe red meat allergies.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/10/this-bugs-bite-could-turn-you-into-a-ve...