No Insecticide just Insects Inside
Throughout our earlier world with rose-colored glasses donned, we remember mothers often exclaiming, “Eat all of your dinner. There are people all over the world starving”. In the case of specific detail, Ethiopia was often quoted. Of course, this never made sense, and there were times, especially when some awful tasting nutrient had to be thrown down one’s gullet, one wanted to say, “Well then, send them this slop.” But, it was a different time, a much more respectful time. Much displeased, we ate on.
I like to use a Chinese proverb for my family’s migration from Finland, certainly impoverished at the time, for opportunities available in Canada - “When one has three square meals per day, there are many problems in the world, but if one has no square meals per day there is only one problem in the world.” Of course in later life, I migrated once again to the USA. So, very much unlike today, in our youth, many of us ate what was placed on the table in front of us.
Because we’ve all matured, some more than others, like the late President George Herbert Walker Bush and his distaste for broccoli, we tend to consume what we like. Yet, the eco-politicians and crazed climate crusaders have gone back to an earlier time and are telling us what needs to be ingested.
It’s of course, insects. Like all moms in our younger days, they claim it’s healthy, it’s nutritious and, by god, it’s saving the planet.
Knowing that insects can be described, literally, as gross, offensive and disgusting, they’ve formed the bugs into chips, much like potato chips, and are starting out feeding them to children at schools. One thousand schools in Australia have introduced this program to their youngsters and it has expanded to Wales – and likely, coming to an instructional or indoctrinating establishment near you. Naturally, they did not tell the children what the crass raw material for the recipe looked like. The name on the bag appears as if “Cricket” is the brand name.
Insects are being introduced as a replacement for animal meats. Insects apparently do not belch or flatulate or release methane. The concentration of atmospheric methane is so small it is measured, not in parts per million (PPM) but in parts per billion (PPB) and further, dissipates much quicker than carbon dioxide. Yet, another bullying tactic is being thrown at the public.
I link an article from the Canada Free Press - see if it ‘bugs’ you.
To take this article a little further I link a story entitled “The Benefits of World Hunger” authored by George Kent, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, which was published in the UN Chronicle, a magazine of the United Nations. The United Nations took the story down, not long after publication, because of an outcry from shrewd and sensible people, but it was saved in the archival cloud.
Kent is the epitome of the elitist thinker, a man so full of pomposity and arrogance, he does not understand or have any sympathy and compassion for the suffering, misery, and anguish of the poor and the malnourished.
In the linked story, besides other incendiary opinions, he writes, “For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
Hunger of the commoner is not a concern of the elite or the authoritarian – i.e.: let them eat insects as they clean their toilets.
In 1775 founding father delegate Patrick Henry exclaimed, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Personally, I change the word liberty to “cows, pigs, chickens, moose, elk or whatever provides us with actual meat.