The thinking goes like this. If we feed kids bugs, then maybe they will convince their parents to eat bugs too. As a parent, I’d like to respond to that. Go away and take your bugs with you.
But we eat bug parts all the time, they say. I bet we do, but that’s not the same as biting into a spoon full of mealworms or stabbing your fork into some crunchy grasshoppers. Are they edible? If you say so. And several schools in the UK are about to test this idea out on children.
Pupils at four primary schools in Wales will be fed “alternative proteins” such as crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, grasshoppers and mealworms. The project to change people’s diets starts this week.
The researchers hope their findings will provide information on how to make British children – and by extension, their parents – believe in the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects.
I have several issues, not the least of which is my narrow-minded paradigms about “dinner.”
- Incidental bugs are fine; bugs on purpose are a no-go.
- UK food already has a bad reputation. This won’t help.
- Vegans won’t eat them, so I guess we agree on at least one thing.
- As the article notes, some bugs are nasty and, even if edible, could cause allergic reactions or deliver bacteria into your body.
- Oh, and you are basing the need for adding bugs to the diet on “climate change,” which is a made-up thing.
The Changing climate is natural, obviously, but the global warming cult (rebranded as climate change) is a fraud-based political program.
They say, “Insects are supposed to be nutritious and have a lower carbon footprint than regular meat.” But the carbon footprint mythology has no legs upon which to stand, insect or otherwise. None of the climate models has come close to guessing anything correctly. Global CO2 continues to rise without any correlated effect to anything the Climate Cult has predicted.
Your energy solutions are more carbon-intensive than fossil fuels. Your shopping bag solution was more carbon-intensive than thin-film bags. Your motor fuel alternatives are more carbon-intensive than gasoline. Even your meat replacement strategy (fake meat made from plants) has a larger carbon footprint and does more damage to the environment than actual meat.
And let’s be honest. Making the government bigger is not good for anyone, including the planet, nor could a government of any size do anything but make matters worse on multiple fronts, including “climate.”
So, eat Bugs? Not unless its last name is Bunny, and you serve it with mashed potato and green beans. If that’s not is good enough, then I want to see Gore, Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros, Klaus Schwab, the Bidens, and all the usual inside the beltway DC suspects and their NGO and lobbyist funded bankrollers dining on insects daily for at least a year before they try that crap around here.
Watching Nancy Pelosi load a spoon full of some of the finest mealworms from one of her twin 15,000.00 dollar fridges: priceless
How about all the pro-abortion women and the LGBTQ folks. Insect meals for everyone, every day, in every way.
New Hampshire has a handful of left-winger groups scaremongering the environment. Where’s your bowl of bugs…yummy!
And none of that fake – I got vaccinated photo-op BS. Eat bugs on live TV, often. Do that for a year, and I still won’t eat your damn bugs because you’re already making a difference, and that’s more than enough for me. Your reduced consumption will also bring meat prices down, so thank you.
