I'll bet PETA is behind this!
Yea, they bio-engineered these ticks to do this so we all have to become vegetarians!
They've weaponized insects!
I don't think them folks at peta are smart enough to do that.
Besides, don't they relize that plants "feel" pain? If they don't, then explain why PBS did an entire show on how a cerain plant can defend it's self from bugs. It "feels" the bug on it and knows which way to react. That's what the show was about.
Go stick that in your vegetarian diet!