The goal of gaining public acceptance for eating insects instead of meat is now part of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) effort. The larger climate change objective is to “transition” the global food supply away from cows, pigs and chickens, and toward a more sustainable lifestyle of eating insects and bugs. Farmers in North American and Europe are facing massive regulatory changes as part of the Build Back Better or Green New Deal initiatives.
In the U.S. Joe Biden has pledged his entire administration effort toward the goal of reducing U.S. carbon emissions and protecting the planet. Part of that initiative includes the need to change the diet of Americans away from traditional farm proteins, and toward sustainable alternatives via bugs and/or insects like cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers.
A comprehensive marketing, branding and image campaign is underway to change the public perception toward an acceptance of sustainable algae and bugs as food sources. Public Broadcasting (PBS) is part of that imitative:
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Several U.S. food manufacturers now include insects and bugs as part of their ingredient list. It would be worthwhile checking the labels on the latest snack foods to identify the percentages of worms and bugs that may be included in your favorite salted snack.
Additionally, a significant investment has taken place in Canada where they are now generating 9,000 metric tons of crickets to replace traditional protein sources (link). The public/private partnership in London, Ontario, is now shipping crickets for use by North American food manufacturers. There has been minimal public pushback against the effort and the government appears to be fast-tracking insects as food alternatives for global shortages of grain and meats.
In the United Kingdom, the government is now taking public feedback on the use of insects in the food supply. According to a recent public notification from the U.K. Food Standards Agency, they are working toward an acceptable standard across the industry for insects and worms in the food supply.
From the notification: “A consultation on a proposed legislated transitional period under the novel food regulations for edible insects in England, Scotland and Wales. The proposal has been developed with input from Food Standards Scotland (FSS).” (more)
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As farmland across Europe and North America increasingly comes under enhanced “climate change” regulation from government, we can expect the speed of food supply transitioning to insects to increase exponentially.
There are a lot of government resources [EXAMPLE HERE] now dedicated to changing public perception. The western government alliance wants people to start eating bugs, and, more importantly, want people comfortable doing so as the energy and climate regulations increasingly limit food options.
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With PBS now joining the chorus of insect food promotion; and with the increasingly discussed pending global food shortage now looming; it would appear that western leaders are following the advice from the World Economic Forum and preparing their citizens in Europe and North America to accept insects as food.
As noted earlier, you may already be eating the insects and just not be aware of it. Apparently, people who are allergic to shellfish should be more concerned and diligent about the ingredients of the food they consume, as insects may generate the same allergic reaction.
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I’m not sure how everyone feels about this new effort to make bugs into food for humans, but everything about it seems weird. I will not be eating the bugs, worms, slugs, crickets, or any other creepy crawling critter regardless of “protein transfer efficiency.” Nope. Not happening.
Conduct your informed affairs accordingly.
Since we can’t trust the federal government to do anything wholesome for the country, we need to work at the state level, take a page from the California Nanny State playbook, and require any processed food made with insect or worm protein be identified as such in big letters on the label next to the product name, and also on restaurant menus that use such ingredients.
Let’s see how they do in the marketplace with a label “Contains Insect or Worm Protein”.
Since it nearly impossible to keep insects out of mass produced food products, the FDA already makes allowances for minute insect particles in our food.
Its only a small step up to increase the percentage enough to be included in labeling.
Probably use the scientific insect names term in place of the common names so the few people who actually read food labels won’t readily know.
If I know our Federal government, they will create various regulations to gradually increase the percentages of insects and worms added to various food products. Those companies not in compliance will be penalized via lowered social credit scores, diminished funding opportunities and regulatory fines.
Well manufacturers won’t have to worry about minute particles of bugs anymore, they will be immune from any sloppy practice of food hygiene, once bugs have been fast tracked and approved as a viable source of human protein.
Already happening – For years, we have been using/eating red coloring identified as cochineal, carmine, carminic acid and Natural Red 4, in sausage, pastry, pink yogurts, ice creams, red juices, artificial crab, and some cosmetics-lipstick and blush, sourced from the “cochineal scale,” an insect often mistaken for a beetle (dactylopius coccus.) The insects are crushed, and the pigment is extracted. Not kosher, and not vegan but can cause allergic reactions so must be identified on the label. For once, you might agree with Starbucks who responded to customer complaints by removing it from their products and substituting lycopene-from tomatoes.
It will be labeled “Contains Sustainably Sourced Protein.”
The news media has this info safely hidden away for now, along with info about how Bill Gates and the Chinese are buying up the farm land. They suppress all info about how coal can be mined in an environmental way and converted to natural gas. They are conveniently ignoring the story of Sri Lanka, the world’s guinea pig for a total overnight “reset” of food production and distribution. The only way these insane people will be prevented from literally destroying civilization, due to widespread starvation, would be paid commercials blasted online and on TV informing the public about what the “elites” are up to.
Let them eat cake.. led to the bloody french revolution. what will “let them eat bugs” bring…
“Bugs, its whats for dinner!”
Cue Aaron Copland music.
It will bring nothing sadly. It will not be until gun confiscations and whites being hunted down in the streets for a revolution to begin. By then it will probably be too late. Most of us have become too soft and the enemy knows it. Make friends with your neighbors and the like minded.
So….. A biblical diet of honey and locusts is in our future?
Probably not honey.
You might be allowed a bee or two.
Until we learn how to ask and receive the honeybees approval for our theft of their honey … it will be considered animal cruelty or exploitation.
Perhaps forced onto our future yes, but even in the bible it wasn’t a command, it was a chosen diet.
I can see where the VEGANs have a play in this…
I have been been vegetarian for 50 yrs and also vegan, and bugs would never be part of my diet or any true vegetarian or vegan. Can’t believe we are even having this conversation, now.
Not to worry. Vegans and vegetarians must be included by providing “Beyond Bugs”. The plant based alternative to real bugs.
Every vegan I know so thoroughly HATES meat and meat eaters … that this is absolutely their doing. They just want to STOP the “Factory Farms” … IDIOTS
Any idea how they feel about “bug factory farms?” After all, crickets and worms are living creatures as much as cows or pigs are. Or do they just object to killing for food if the creatures are cute?
H.L. Mencken – What men value in this world is not rights, but privileges.
To a totalitarian like AOC, “the make them eat bugs” plan has everything.
She knows already that she’ll be among the privileged few who don’t have to eat the bugs.
But she’ll have the privilege (the joy) of ordering her betters to eat bugs.
And the Democrat voter base (god bless ’em), when they’re hungry enough, will eat AOC’s bugs and be grateful to her for their dinner; there are no privileges or rights in their world, only the eternal gratitude of a dog.
Roaches. Who does not like a juicy roach, medium rare, with hot sauce and algae salad? Yammy.
Deep fried and crunchy in a bag. The popcorn alternative!
NOT going to eat a bug in any case, but especially not one that’s resting on the tine of the fork, looking at me like a long-lost friend . . .
Jiminy Cricket . . . no way!
If Walt Disney was around, things would be different.
Jiminy Cricket was black. Disney is guilty of blaxploitation!! As were ‘The Beatles’. Damn you white crackahs!
I recall Jiminy as green and or brown.
If some black insect has been portraying him, it is blatant cultural appropriation!
Oh, wait…..that never applies to blacks.
The elites really do believe we are sub human. Anyone that cannot see this is all a coordinated effort by the globalists to depopulate, starve and enslave us is blind to the reality we are living in. All part of the Great Reset plan. We’ll grow our own food. Let THEM eat bugs!
What utter crap. I want to see the entire Biden administration sit down and eat an all insect dinner in front of the entire country. Bill Gates stay away from my chicken, pork, and beef as well as fish and bison. Get out of America or off the planet. I hope we all figure out a way to stop this because it is hurting more people then it will help the planet.
They will list cricket as Natural Gryllidae, cockroach as Natural Blattodea.
Gonna force it through the same way they are doing trans stuff, influence the children to accept it as natural and any resistance as hate and ignorance.
“I’m not sure how everyone feels about this new effort to make bugs into food for humans, but everything about it seems weird. I will not be eating the bugs, worms, slugs, crickets, or any other creepy crawling critter regardless of “protein transfer efficiency.” Nope. Not happening.”
Ditto. Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto.
It’s all about diminishment and humiliation. Mealworms for thee, but not for me!
We are dealing with demonic, possessed psychopaths. Psychopaths detest the weak. We need to stand up for ourselves or else.
Eating bugs and grubs? So … my repeated WARNINGS that the INSANE “green” lefties wanted us to live like Third World hunters and gatherers is completely validated. Sheesh … I may have to change the WARNING and say these MORONS want us to live like Piltdown Man … totally naked and afraid!
Once they’ve transitioned everyone to eating bugs, how long until a “bug shortage” happens and they then transition us to Solyent Green?
Eat bugs, drive electric cars or public transit, watch television, work and consume. The best slaves are those that do not know they are slaves.
Ummy soylent green, never go hungry after a pandemic.
If I linked correctly here is the NIH (not that I trust them) study on parasites in edible insects:mealworms, crickets, locusts, cockroaches.
Parasites were detected in 81% of the examined insects and 30% potentially pathogenic for humans. “Edible insects are an underestimated reservoir of human and animal parasites.”
I will starve before I am forced to eat bugs.
“Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for f***offs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” Hunter S. Thompson
PBS should have these words nailed up over their entrance.
Pushing insects as food is just another means of forcing people into government dependency. Anyone can raise and butcher cattle, hogs and chickens. People have been doing so for thousands of years. Even though some societies have always eaten insects, it takes specialized equipment and processes to produce anything that would be remotely relatable to the masses. You and your average neighborhood butcher don’t have the equipment or chemical engineering expertise to raise insects and convert them for human consumption (not that many people would voluntary consume it).
You first….
I will never eat bugs. It appears that the World Economic Forum / New World Order is trying to gradually get people accustomed to eating bugs.
In a way this is similar to how the big food manufacturers got people accustomed to consuming food and beverages with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar in the 1980s.
The push to get people to eat bugs is bizarre, creepy, strange, and weird.
The best way to avoid eating bug infused food is to eat whole, natural, unprocessed foods and to read the ingredients label while keeping in mind that food labels might try to obfuscate that the food contains bugs by using the bug’s scientific name, a pleasant sounding euphemism, vague terminology such a “filler”, or simply omitting the fact that bugs were included.
Foods with short ingredient lists with natural ingredients will probably be least likely to include bugs. Better yet, eat unprocessed food that wasn’t created from a list of ingredients such fruits, vegetables, grains, and meat.
Growing your own food or picking it directly from an orchard or farm that allows that is a great option as well.
Let the NPR idiots eat bugs. I’m not going to.
Soilent Green isn’t far behind
ALL Federal politicians and bureaucrats must go on bug diet for at least 6 months to show us DEPLORABLES how wonderful it really is. No NCO military will participate. OFFICERS AND PENTAGON – ABSOLUTELY. Just sayin’
New marketing ploy: If it’s good enough for your pets…
I won’t be feeding my dog (who lives to annoy me) any bugs!
I also stop my cat from feasting on the lizards he loves to catch. 🥴
I am just waiting to LMAO when I see the Liberal freaks here in CA bring in their lunch pail of insects to eat for lunch in the break room. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
They can burn in hell
The time for comedy is over let’s have a serious discussion. It’s time for the bozo’s to be removed from office. This next November we must replace the progressive AOC green new deal types out of government at all levels and push these ideas out of the realm of possibility.
People will riot and destroy governments over food. They better quit this now.
Will Peta save the bugs?
Notice the “warming planet” remark on the PBS America statement. As if it is a given. It isn’t.
“Where they burn books, they will sooner or later burn people”. – Heinrich Heine
Where they eat bugs, they will sooner or later eat people. – Gates, Schwab, Soros and the Soylent Corporation