The Elites Want To Feed Us Insects. Are you Buggin’?
How come all these conspiracy theories keep turning out to be true?
In the movie Snowpiercer, environmentalist over reaction has rendered the earth a frozen, lifeless wasteland. The last remnants of humanity hurtle round the globe in a perpetually racing locomotive. The carriages of this train, in a not so subtle allegory, are graded according to the perceived worth of their human cargo, with the lowest of the low massed in squalor at the back, and the upper class elites, lording it up in bacchanalian luxury at the front.
It’s grim. But on the upside, at least in the future, someone will be able to catch a train. So in some ways, they’re doing better than us.
Of course this being a movie, and not say, the real world, the lower orders rise up, and make their way through the carriages towards the front. Moving relentlessly onward, like a pissed up Glaswegian in search of the buffet car.
On their way they pass through the carriage which prepares their only food. ‘Protein bars’ which are distributed to them daily by the jackbooted agents of the upper class. The mob is disgusted to discover that these bars are actually composed of little more than insects, crushed into soap bar sized blocks.
Snowpiercer is a great movie. It’s bonkers fun, genuinely satirical, and there are even some surprisingly convincing arguments claiming that it is the distorted, twisted up sequel to kids’ classic Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.
But this movie, and that scene in particular kept coming back to me recently when I read that the European Union had just approved the use of insect protein in food.
Not wanting to be swept up in yet another baseless Q Anon 4 Chan Daily Mail (Boo Hiss) style conspiracy, I looked it up on the EU’s own website. And found a page entitled ‘Approval of fourth insect as novel food.’ Which can only mean they have already approved three insects as food, and we never noticed.
Now insect protein might be good for you. It might be nutritious and cost effective, with a long shelf life and come with a graph full of health benefits. I just don’t know. I’m no expert in food technology. But what I do know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is who will soon be eating it, that’ll be us, and who won’t, that’ll be them.
The ‘them’ in this case is the people who approved it. Ursula Von Der Leyen and her democracy repelling EU commissioners. I can bet you that despite their plans for the rest of us, these guys won’t be going anywhere near a wasp sandwich anytime soon.
The EU describes squished up insects as a ‘Novel Food’, a powder, and a food ingredient, that can be added to stuff. They assure us that all foods containing it will be labelled. But if you’re expecting a big sticker featuring a smiley cartoon cockroach, defecating on a Happy Meal, then I think you will be disappointed.
What I really don’t understand is how little attention this has all got. Especially when you spell it out in basic terms. Unless I’ve missed something here, this is the EU, saying that legally, the people of the EU, can be fed insects, as food.
But perhaps I’ve misread the public mood. Maybe in my opposition to feeding cockroaches to kiddies I’m an outlier. After all, The Guardian, that po faced bastion of right thinking , which clutched its pearls in pinch faced horror at the very thought of Britons being offered the choice of American style chlorinated chicken in supermarkets, seems all for it. And that’s despite the fact that chlorinated chicken is regularly enjoyed, without apparent mishap by 300 million Americans. While ants are predominantly eaten by, well anteaters.
But the thing is, not long ago, maybe two weeks tops, if you had said ‘The EU wants the plebs to eat insects’ people, (and by ‘people’ I mainly mean ‘people on Twitter’) would have accused you of believing in conspiracy theories. Spreading nonsense. Peddling disinformation. Making stuff up.
And of course no one wants to be labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’. It’s a ‘tune out’ phrase. We’ve been conditioned to tune out what a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is saying, dismiss their arguments, and file them away under ‘nut job.’ And if that fails and people are still listening to the dissenters, we are then encouraged to upgrade that file to ‘right wing nut job’, or the absolute buzz kill, ‘right wing racist nut job’.
And yet despite that, here we are. Maybe not chomping down on bug burgers and slug sausages, quite yet, but certainly about to be offered food with a six legged not so secret ingredient.
So when it comes to eating bugs, something dismissed as rubbish by our bosses a nano second ago, is now proven to be true. And it’s not the first time.
The more you look, the more you see examples of things that we were assured were very much the preserve of fruitcakes, loons, subversives and idiots, which turned out to be true.
And crucially I don’t mean true like, ‘oh that happens to be true and no one knew, and that’s a surprise to everyone’ kind of true.
And more ‘We knew that was true but we lied to your face about it because we thought we could get away with it’ kind of true.
Obviously COVID offers many of the most recent examples. And not just one or two. The history of COVID is a history of things that we were told were outrageous, bonkers conspiracies, that were in fact things our governments knew to be true. And then lied to us about.
COVID started in a lab. You what? Are you mental? What is wrong with you? It started in a food market, claimed all the scientists who two weeks before had been on an email exchange telling each other that COVID was likely started in a lab. And not just any lab, that lab.
Masks don’t work. You what? Are you mental? What is wrong with you? Anyone who doesn’t wear one is a selfish monster, intent on prolonging the agony of lockdowns for everyone else. Said the British Health Secretary, who admitted in his memoirs that there was no evidence whatsoever that masks worked, and it was all simply about making people comply with the new draconian, anti human rules.
Lockdowns will save lives in the long term. Everyone is equally at risk. Vaccines stop you spreading COVID. We have no plans to introduce vaccine passports. The list goes on and on.
Yes but COVID was a global pandemic blah blah blah. So we had to bend the truth for your own safety. Don’t you see? To protect you/granny/the NHS.
No. I’m sorry, I don’t see. If you turn from the truth in the face of a mere virus. What hope do we have of you holding firm to standards of transparency and honesty in the face of greedy opportunity, or evil men?
All these examples reveal the contempt our elites have for the rest of us. They lie to us with impunity. And when their lies are revealed they simply shrug and say so what? It’s no big deal. It’s a nothing burger.
It’s not like we think they’re lying to us. They are lying to us. All the time.
And the claim that they’re lying to us for our own good? That’s just another lie.
So is it any wonder we are the teeny tiniest bit sceptical when they tell us that if we don’t give up our cars, remove the boilers from our homes, and start eating insects, then the world will explode? That unless we actively make ourselves poorer, lower our living standards, and ration our happiness, we will literally destroy the planet?
Just this week The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, represented by the Five Creepy Librarians of the Apocalypse. Moved their ridiculous Doomsday Clock forward another 10 seconds.
If you ever wondered what the freaky misanthropes who head the joyless Doomsday Cult that spawned Greta Thunberg look like. Well here they are, for everyone to see, in all their banal, joyless, blank faced glory. Standing next to some nightmare version of the clock off Countdown.
It’s nonsense of course. There is no ‘Doomsday Clock’ it’s just made up. Like Harry Potter, The Clangers, and polar bear shortages. But I guess fearmongers gotta monger.
No one here is saying that climate change isn’t real. (It is.) But what smells like bullshit, is the claim that the world is literally on fire. (It isn’t) And furthermore, the only way to put it out, is to douse the flames with your money.
I’m not a climate change sceptic. I’m a Climate Apocalypse sceptic. A manageable problem is being presented as The End Times. It’s leverage. After all, who wouldn’t accept some life style changes if it meant preventing Armageddon?
And that brings us back to the bugs.
Why do they want to normalise eating insects?
Well here’s a conspiracy theory for you.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve been told that humanity is literally on the brink of annihilation. The 1970s Malthusian nightmare that claimed there were too many people on the planet, that we’d soon run out of food, and everyone would starve, proved to be wrong.
We were told the world would end, but it didn’t. Thanks to human ingenuity and actual science, (not to be confused with The Science) we can now grow more than enough food to feed everyone the planet. Even though the human population has about doubled since then. It’s genuinely amazing. Because humans, when we put our minds to it, can be pretty amazing. The main reasons anyone faces real famine today are usually war, or poor governance.
But that is all set to change because as well as banning gas boilers, holidays and Haribo, there is also a big push to ban, or at least severely limit the use of, fertilisers.
Yes. They want to ban the stuff that we invented, so that we could literally feed the planet.
Greenpeace, have called for it and our own government are looking into it.
When it comes to fertilisers there are actually two sides to the argument. And I would be remiss if I didn’t give them both a fair hearing.
Yes, nitrogen based fertilisers enable people across the globe to feed their families. Have helped eliminate, for the most part, the mass starvations of the past. And allow developing nations to spend more of their resources trying to compete on the unequal playing field of global trade, and less on burying their peasants.
But on the other hand the ammonia which nitrogen based fertilisers emit can cause stinky old pollution. And the people who run the already rich countries, don’t like pollution.
So sorry poor people, and anyone who enjoys not starving to death. Fertilisers have to go.
You might waste away from malnutrition. But at least your last breath will taste sweet, and ammonia free. It’s a trade off.
And that’s where the beetle juice smoothies might come in.
Once our bosses have wrecked the world’s agriculture industry. And that’s a real possibility, look at what happened when they banned fertilisers in Sri Lanka.
They will need to find alternative food sources.
And that’s when we’ll be lining up to gratefully receive all the cricket protein we can get.
There’s a reason that eating witchity grubs in challenges on TV shows like I’m a Celebrity and Fear Factor are the trial, and not the reward. It’s because most people think that eating insects is disgusting. And would gag at the mere thought if it.
But they don’t care, they’ve been trying to normalise bug munching for years. And now, right across the EU, it’s becoming government policy.
And once we’ve become normalised to swapping beef for bugs in the name of saving our burning (it’s not burning) planet, what’s next? Better get used to being cold. To energy rationing. To having lockdown style restrictions imposed on our freedoms.
I genuinely question if I’m falling through the looking glass here. But when you think about Net-Zero, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the clearly stated ambitions of organisations like the WEF, it seems apparent, that ultimately, they don’t just want to take away your favourite foods and replace them with a Bug Mac and flies.
They want to take away your voice, your agency, your energy, your money, and through the ever increasing power of ‘independent’ committees, global agreements, and supra national organisations like the EU that slowly render democracy obsolete, your vote.
I know that’s pretty strong stuff. Sorry. But honestly, don’t mind me. I’m probably just another dupe, spouting more nonsense anti-vaxxx, low information, swivel eyed, fruit loop conspiracy theories.
And when has one of them ever turned out to be true?
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, honestly, you're as cynical as me. Loved the rant hope it made you feel better.
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a probable right wing, swivel eyed, racist, fascist, nazi, transphobic, homophobic Karen xx
I enjoyed this post. I do have opinions about this, one of them being, (and not to be reductionist) I think boils down to the agricultural industrial complex implementing a solution (chemical fertilizers, industrialization of agriculture, consolidation of raising ruminants) and not understanding, thinking about, caring about---the downstream consequences to people, urbanization, environment, the humane treatment and relationship with the animals we eat, etc. too reductionist?