They're Pushing Bugs in Utah
A shocking surprise we discovered during our wonderful trip to Park City
Editor’s Note: This post is a bit of departure from my typical “Peeking Around the Corner.” We were in Park City, Utah where our family owns a vacation home (NOT us, but two of my siblings). Our niece got married there and we went f or the wedding. This post includes photos from the trip, plus some pictures that show how the WEF “eat the bugs” program is spreading.
I haven’t posted, or engaged much at all in comments or on Notes as reception wasn’t great and (the biggest reason) we never even thought about our phones during our drive and while at our destination.
Our trip to Park City was wonderful. How could it not be? The fresh mountain air, nature all around us, a beautiful small town with lots of eclectic shops and eateries.
The View Speaks Volumes
Our niece’s wedding took place on Payday Mountain in Park City. Guests had to ride to the venue via ski lift. It was the first time DS had ever been on a ski lift and he didn’t blink an eye. No idea why I’m making such a strange face in this picture. The boys to my left are two of our four boys (none of the girls were able to attend) and the beautiful girl, squinting in the sun, is our oldest son’s future bride.
Here’s a pic of DS and me right before heading over to the lift to take us to the mountaintop wedding venue. [He wore a blazer and I wore a fur shawl, it’s just not pictured here.]
After the wedding we had to slide (is that the right term?) down the mountain to the reception lodge. Yes, the ladies had to hike up their long formals and ride down on an individual sled that resembles a luge. You can control speed with a lever that is placed in an unfortunate position for those of us wearing dresses.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any pictures of the luge-thing (I was terrified, but it all turned out fine).
This is a picture of a beautiful waterfall we came across named Bridal Veil Falls. The photo doesn’t do it justice at all. I just wanted to hang out there all day.
We spent a day strolling around downtown Park City, shopping and stopping for afternoon drinks and snacks.
The day after the wedding, we headed back toward Texas, but rather than driving straight through, we took an extra day to stop in Aspen, Colorado. It’s a beautiful place and we had a great time there. But…
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They Are Pushing Bugs Everywhere — Believe It!
Of course, we had to get through the rest of Utah on our way to Aspen. We were sort of shocked to find bugs for sale — for HUMANS to eat — at a gas station along the way. Check out the photos below:
What a variety we saw there! Black crickets, “Crick-ettes,” and “Larvets.” Just so you know, these “Larvets” as they call them are the very same thing we feed our chickens for treats — mealy worms! We pay about $16 for a pound of mealy worms at our feed store. The store priced these tiny packets at $6. So, not only do the “Powers That Be” want us to eat bugs, they want us to pay exorbitant prices for them. But don’t worry, you can just eat the ants in your garden.
Don’t concern yourself with buying ant poison at your local hardware store. Ants are now food. Didn’t ya know? Just contrive a way to capture the little yummies and then look up a recipe. I’m sure there are plenty of great ways to prepare them.
Finally, there are scorpions (and other vile creatures) embedded in candies. Dessert, yay!
Kids acting up while on a long road trip? Just stop at a gas station along the way and buy them some scorpion suckers. Problem solved!
Resist and Rebel
The war on food — basically a war on humanity — is ramping up. You may not detect signs of it where you live, but it is there. Just this morning a friend of mine sent me a link to this article. The article shows how a group called, “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” aims to cut meat and dairy consumption to ZERO by 2030. Other goals include zero private vehicle ownership and a limit of three new clothing items per person annually by 2030.
One of the 14 cities in the article is Houston — a blue city. We live in The Woodlands area, which is only about 30 minutes north of Houston proper. I am grateful that we’re planning to move to our acreage in Idaho in a year and a half (or so), but I am increasingly anxious and feel we should make the move sooner — much sooner. Things are ramping up quickly.
Resist these C40 goals, even if they aren’t happening in your immediate area. It’s time we really rebel against this encroaching soft totalitarianism. I’m very concerned about those who have almost no food stores and are not or cannot grow anything of their own.
Resist and rebel. It’s the only way at this point.
They always start with the young children for indoctrination.
We've had a bug 'farm' and restaurant here in Wales for a few years. I never gave it too much thought until recently and passed it off as a quirky tourist attraction. It now seems a whole lot more sinister given the recent push towards governmental drive to consume more insect protein at the expense of traditional meat especially as any such product will probably be refined to within an inch of its life - who wants to eat heavily processed food? Children in the next village to me recently took part in a trial ...
"Children at four primary schools will be offered insect protein during workshops to gauge youngsters' appetite for "alternative protein. The children will reportedly be given a product called VeXo, a combination of insect and plant-based protein. The product is said to look like "conventional" mince. The i newspaper said researchers are hoping to use data from the study to learn how best to educate children about the nutritional and environmental benefits of eating creepy crawlies - such as crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, locusts and mealworms.
The investigation, which will use children aged from 5-11, is being led by Christopher Bear at Cardiff University. The study will use surveys, workshops, interviews and focus groups to explore young people’s understandings of alternative proteins - and as part of the research they will be offered a sample if they wish to try it, the Daily Star reports.
Mr Bear told the i: “We want the children to think about alternative proteins as real things for now, rather than just as foods for the future, so trying some of these foods is central to the research. Although edible insects are – for now – not sold widely in the UK, they form part of the diet of around 2 billion people worldwide.
"Much of this is in parts of the world where they are part of long-standing culinary traditions. And they are increasingly popular elsewhere.
Four primary schools in Wales will take part in the study. Carl Evans, headteacher at one of the schools, Roch Community Primary in Pembrokeshire. said that the issue was “important” but that it was “difficult” for youngsters to make sense of the issue."