Source: AG DAILY, 12/18/20


I remember the first time I heard about mammalian meat allergy, or what is sometimes referred to as the alpha-gal allergy. I was sitting at an Indianapolis restaurant with Ryan Tipps, my AGDAILY editor. I ordered the restaurant’s famous burger. Ryan avoided red meat and asked the waitress some oddly specific questions. He later shared with me the tick bite that changed his diet and life. The mammalian meat allergy is actually an allergy to the alpha-gal sugar often found in red meat.

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