“food insecurity, environmental pressures, population growth and increasing demand for protein among the middle classes.” I’m glad they are so concerned about the middle classes. We know the elites will continue to have their prime rib. But it concerns me that liberals used to be concerned about the poor. They don’t event MENTION the poor anymore. Their climate religion has replaced their concern to actually help people. It is a disturbing shift in what they emphasize.
Government policies to shift its citizens to eating insects for protein is yet another example of why progressives are detrimental to society. By definition, a progressive can never stand still because they will then lose their reason to exist. Therefore, they must continually push the policy ball forward with no regard as to the actual need for those policies. Thus we are forced to suffer from their continual
rants whether it’s man-made climate change, ESG, DEI, etc…BTW, I’m pretty sure that Pfizer and Moderna are working on that mRNA vaccine for insect allergies.
Livestock is a significant source of nitrogen emissions (dung/urine). As we assume you're in the EcoStatist Union (EU), you have seen this issue come to a head close to home in 2022 with the Netherlands. We noted the issue (with a YouTube link to some farmers giving their "thanks" at govt. offices) in our most recent post here: https://envmental.substack.com/p/sacrificing-humanity-on-the-green-16c
Lest you think this is confined to the EU, sorry. Here's a "taste test" done with new cricket chips on Australian school children back in the fall. Adorable Adelaide doesn't seem quite ready for a lengthy dissertation about the negative consequences of parasites in one's gut.
"They are going to get us on to insects, then. For our own good and the good of the planet. I did genuinely try to come up with some other plausible interpretation of this paragraph. There simply isn’t one."
You hit the nail squarely on the head here, Irina! This is what the left calls "nudging" here in the States, or "Eating the elephant one bite at a time", if you will.
The elitists on the left want to control what and how much we eat, how far we can travel, what temperature we keep our homes, what products we buy, the list of intrusions is truly endless.
For a pop-culture/fictional view of this, spend 2 or so hours watching the 1973 American movie titled "Soylent Green", starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. It's like "1984", but with an eco-twist on our future "Food Choices".
Dear Irina -- Please reconsider your mistrust of chickens. They are wonderful. We now have seven. One keeled over and died. Another was eaten by a fox. I mourned their loss - really.
Naturally, I did not drop to my knees and weep, but they were a part of the life of our home, and their presence was missed. As were their eggs! Really nice to take an egg out of a laying box and fry it up in a pan with some butter and salt and pepper. Yum!
We feed them with table scraps and chicken grains. I don't know abut the economics because I don't care. It is the right thing to do.
Insect flour? As a last resort? Yes, For baking a Christmas Stolen. No. My wife's pie shells?
I’m guessing the Italians and French aren’t going to be messing with their traditional recipes so easily... it is going to be pretty impossible to sell this to people as progress, but I’m sure there will be some “market” that will be set up...
“food insecurity, environmental pressures, population growth and increasing demand for protein among the middle classes.” I’m glad they are so concerned about the middle classes. We know the elites will continue to have their prime rib. But it concerns me that liberals used to be concerned about the poor. They don’t event MENTION the poor anymore. Their climate religion has replaced their concern to actually help people. It is a disturbing shift in what they emphasize.
Government policies to shift its citizens to eating insects for protein is yet another example of why progressives are detrimental to society. By definition, a progressive can never stand still because they will then lose their reason to exist. Therefore, they must continually push the policy ball forward with no regard as to the actual need for those policies. Thus we are forced to suffer from their continual
rants whether it’s man-made climate change, ESG, DEI, etc…BTW, I’m pretty sure that Pfizer and Moderna are working on that mRNA vaccine for insect allergies.
Great column. Informative and the PS was very entertaining. Also, be sure to cook your insects with electricity, not gas.
I'm waiting for them to add it to the flour we bake with as enriched protein.
Irina, well done and we'll add to it.
Livestock is a significant source of nitrogen emissions (dung/urine). As we assume you're in the EcoStatist Union (EU), you have seen this issue come to a head close to home in 2022 with the Netherlands. We noted the issue (with a YouTube link to some farmers giving their "thanks" at govt. offices) in our most recent post here: https://envmental.substack.com/p/sacrificing-humanity-on-the-green-16c
Lest you think this is confined to the EU, sorry. Here's a "taste test" done with new cricket chips on Australian school children back in the fall. Adorable Adelaide doesn't seem quite ready for a lengthy dissertation about the negative consequences of parasites in one's gut.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/kids-cricket-chips-taste-test/video/1ea1a13a61230ee5bac27c955c4d737a
"They are going to get us on to insects, then. For our own good and the good of the planet. I did genuinely try to come up with some other plausible interpretation of this paragraph. There simply isn’t one."
You hit the nail squarely on the head here, Irina! This is what the left calls "nudging" here in the States, or "Eating the elephant one bite at a time", if you will.
The elitists on the left want to control what and how much we eat, how far we can travel, what temperature we keep our homes, what products we buy, the list of intrusions is truly endless.
For a pop-culture/fictional view of this, spend 2 or so hours watching the 1973 American movie titled "Soylent Green", starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. It's like "1984", but with an eco-twist on our future "Food Choices".
Hi. From what I gather, the big problem is that they don't have to disclose in the ingredient list that insect flour has been added!
Also a good reason to stay clear of processed food.
Welcome to Dystopia. Strap in we're going for a ride...La revolution est ici!
ON BEHALF OF CHICKENS & SUSTAINABILITY
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Dear Irina -- Please reconsider your mistrust of chickens. They are wonderful. We now have seven. One keeled over and died. Another was eaten by a fox. I mourned their loss - really.
Naturally, I did not drop to my knees and weep, but they were a part of the life of our home, and their presence was missed. As were their eggs! Really nice to take an egg out of a laying box and fry it up in a pan with some butter and salt and pepper. Yum!
We feed them with table scraps and chicken grains. I don't know abut the economics because I don't care. It is the right thing to do.
Insect flour? As a last resort? Yes, For baking a Christmas Stolen. No. My wife's pie shells?
One must be mad to even suggest.
So in the EU: GMO bad, bugs good. Got it.
I’m guessing the Italians and French aren’t going to be messing with their traditional recipes so easily... it is going to be pretty impossible to sell this to people as progress, but I’m sure there will be some “market” that will be set up...
Going to need crop space to grow all that “renewable diesel” as well.
Meanwhile in North Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4