Eat Bugs they are telling us.
The ecoreligion (that is even being pushed by the Pope's minions) keep pushing old fashioned living aka sustainable development: that supposedly we should go back to living in the same simple ways as our ancestors: which to anyone familiar with the rural poverty in the third world means hard work, not enough food, etc.
So the elites have an answer to this: Bugs!
A quick google will show oodles of academic articles pushing the idea (under the religion of the great reset).
we are assured: that bugs have long been a source of protein since ancient times.
But notice: often the articles have language equating the huge numbers of societies eating bugs (broad use) as if it was the same thing as these societies eating bugs all the time as a major source of calories and protein.
Dirty little secret: Often the bugs were eaten once in awhile: but they were not a major source of protein and calories. But reading the articles published by worshipers of bug eating you might not realize that.
I won't swear that hungry farmers won't eat them during the "hunger season" shortly before the harvest, but you know, they also eat dogs. Hungry people will eat anything, which is why the Chinese markets are reported to sell all sorts of strange animals for rich city folk to eat because they are nostalgic for the good old days on the farms when they ate anything that moved so they wouldn't starve to death.
But insects as a major source of food?
This is not a spontaneous thing: a quick google will show this idea is being pushed by academics who are prosyletizing the Green Religion.
Nearly all of them start the same: blaming covid for disrupting the food supply chain (uh, it wasn't covid: it was the economic shut down, but never mind)...and then saying we need to eat bugs instead (uh, this would require building this industry almost from scratch, which will take years, but never mind).
So the articles almost identically push this line of propaganda to deceive readers into thinking this was once and should again be the normal diet.
so eat bugs or else sinner!
and maybe that is the point: it is a way to humiliate you and shame you, not because it is acutally a solution to world hunger.
The biggest problem with eating bugs is the "yuck factor".
Indeed to get over the "yuck" factor, you have to process the bugs so they don't look like bugs.
For example, the "Crickets" being fed to Australian kids are cricket chips...
Uh, notice something: it's mostly wheat flour.
Ingredients:2 1/2 cups all purpose baking flour
1/2 cup Cricket Flours: 100% Pure Cricket Powder
and if you want to make the flour yourself, this site has instructions.
But notice something? You still have to buy the bugs from suppliers (who feed the growing bugs with robots). And then buy them after they were highly processed (or do all that work yourself).
and don't'believe the propaganda about spoiled westerners not wanting to eat bugs, so we will have to force them encourage them to do so.
Food aversion is a big problem all over the world: Those of us who worked in public health knew we had to use foods that locals would eat: and this meant knowing about local preferences, taboos, and if the food was similar to what they were used to eating. (place MRE joke here).
We ran into this in our nutrition village, where moms were taught how to grow high vitamin veggies and raise high protein animals (mainly chickens for eggs) to supplement the diet of their children who were developing malnutrition.
I remember one article touting using fish powder in the local porridge, which sounded great until the authors admitted no one would eat it.
However, high protein non alcoholic beer using yeast powder was a cheap way to supplement protein for toddlers in our area. It was simliar to the local beers of the local folks, so it was accepted, and the moms could make it by putting a small amount of the powder into bottles and then waiting a day or two for it to brew.
Which brings me to another question:
Why all the hype about edible insects but none about lowly yeast?
Article about yeast as a cheap protein source has a long discussion about this option. LINK.
Yeast protein biomass (single cell protein, SCP) is a bioavailable product which is obtained when primarily using as a culture medium inexpensive various waste substrates including agricultural and industrial wastes.
With the growing population, yeast protein seems to be an attractive alternative to traditional protein sources such as plants and meat.
Moreover, yeast protein biomass also contains trace minerals and vitamins including B-group. Thus, using yeast in the production of protein provides both valuable nutrients and enhances purification of wastes. In conclusion, nutritional yeast protein biomass may be the best option for human and animal nutrition with a low environmental footprint.
Yes.
and we know westerners will eat yeast extract which is added to may foods , and even eaten directly as Marmite in the UK....
or if you are from the Land Down Under, a Vegemite sandwich
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