Next time a mosquito lands on your arm for dinner, let it be.

That's what Aymeric Caron, a French TV presenter and animals rights activist believes anyway, according to The Independent. He recently urged people not to kill mosquitoes, but instead let them bite them and drink their blood, or as Caron puts it, "blood donations".

Caron adds that insects sucked human blood to obtain protein for their eggs, which is "embarrassing for anti-specists who realise they are being attacked by a mother trying to nourish her future children".

"One can consider that a blood donation from time to time to an insect who is only trying to nourish her children is not a drama," Caron says.

Let them eat, Caron believes.

An anti-specist believes that all species should be treated equally.

He goes on to say that animal lovers should allow insects to bite them, except in continents like Africa, where they would risk contracting deadly diseases like malaria.

To avoid being bitten, Caron suggests using natural mosquito repellents such as citronella or lavender oil.

However, Caron's PSA is not sitting well with animal-welfare groups in the UK. Toni Vernelli, the head of Animal Equality, said she would draw the line at "parasites that carry malaria and kill millions of people a year".

Stats from WHO about malaria are alarming. In 2017, there were an estimated 219 million cases of malaria in 87 countries, and 435,000 deaths. Scary numbers.