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."
Samantha, since you were interested in our Provo Great Books Club, you can contact me at carlDOTericDOTscott at the google-controlled email site. We meet Wednesday nights 7-9pm mountain time.
Ive seen monkeys in Africa pull ants out with a stick then eat em. You have to eat alot of bugs to equal a 4oz steak. Thank God my neighbors and I have a barter deal. If i had property elsewhere id be heading there. Shine on! I subbed.
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betcha the algae paste is full of pesticides and herbicides, lol
The implications of what I read here and in the comments is horrifying. Kudos if you can get away from this country; but where is this not happening? I'm poor so have no choice. I will stay and resist and fight.
Sep 1, 2023·edited Sep 1, 2023Liked by Samantha Gluck
You have got to be kidding me??!! Scorpion suckers? Where was this travesty? Honestly. You look beautiful and really? No slide videos? Dangit. I imagine it kinda took away your dignity. Did you know that Hitler had parties and had a slide for the arriving guests? And...they plopped out at the feet of der fuhrer and his entourage. Thanks for the insight. And seriously, what was the name of the bug selling store?
Hey, that was fabulous. The beauty of the West always makes me weak at the knees and almost homesick.
If the bug thing in the US freaks you out, it may be advisable for you to avert your gaze from Europe entirely. Here the stated plan is to kill all the world's most efficient dairy and beef herds (they'll get to the sheep and pigs next), which enjoy a standard of animal welfare unequalled anywhere on the planet, so that we can all be forced to become vegans. The bugs? Preliminary step. That's just the beating we'll get until morale improves. Militant vegans will then object to the suffering of the gnats. Bugs? A fool's game!! Algae paste. That's where the money will be . . .
(Fun fact: if all dairy cows were British or Irish cows, we'd only need 1/3rd of the world's present dairy cow population to supply all the milk. Mistreated animals do not produce like that. Seriously, animals with low self esteem do not produce that much. Being a dairy cow here is a great career move).
We have made the decision. Time to go. We're selling up and moving to poor isolated rural Italy. With a fair wind within six months. The lifestyle, for people of our age, is certainly attractive. More importantly, we need to provide a refuge / escape plan for our children and grandchildren.
I can't help but think it's all different this time and much much more dangerous. The venial corrupt and ultimately murderous polilticians (of all flavors and descriptions) are pandering to an increasingly malign bunch of citizens who demand more and more totalitarianism and control.
But then again, to steal a joke from a favorite radio priest, I'm wearing my tinfoil hat at a jaunty angle today, so maybe it's that.
I will not comply with any of the bug eating nonsense! No more mandates. And Gluck, there is no way that Houston or any part of Texas will ban meat or gas powered cars. That is now against state law. No city or county can pull any shenanigans ever again.
I wonder whether the worms will be interested in eating the adrenachrome guzzling genocidal maniacs after they are cut down from their lynching.... ' you are what you eat'
They have been researching how to make human shit palatable since 2012. I'll find the articles if anyone's interested in shit eating.
Samantha, I believe the worst, most pernicious "Bugs" in Utah may be those used throughout the nation by various alphabet agencies to populate/feed the servers in the massive data farms there.
All of ASIA eats bugs, all of Africa is thankful for 'bugs'
French have been eating snails and chocolate covered ants, since the dinosaur era;
...
angloSaxon in north Britain were openly selling human-flesh as meat in 1100AD, its not like most of the civilized world were still eating human-flesh, and we're not even talking about 'starvation', we're talking about just cheap meat; Like eating horses prior to WW2 in USA was super common, hell even rats, possum, snakes,
...
Ever popular "Shrimp", scampi, are just 'insects of the ocean', there is something early strange about this push-back,
The elite have always EATEN 'bugs', land or sea, its the poor people who didn't get to eat the food of the rich, like escargot ( snails in butter )
That Salt Lake Area has been taken over by, you know, those guys. Southern Utah is mostly different. No bugs here! (I guess I need to add “yet”). Idaho sounds terrific. My neighbor is from there and speaks so longingly of it, I might have to take a trip there with her.
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."
Samantha, since you were interested in our Provo Great Books Club, you can contact me at carlDOTericDOTscott at the google-controlled email site. We meet Wednesday nights 7-9pm mountain time.
Ive seen monkeys in Africa pull ants out with a stick then eat em. You have to eat alot of bugs to equal a 4oz steak. Thank God my neighbors and I have a barter deal. If i had property elsewhere id be heading there. Shine on! I subbed.
Hadn't noticed the bug-snacks myself, but glad you got to enjoy my neck of the woods! Bridal Veil, for example. Southeastern UT is even more amazing.
betcha the algae paste is full of pesticides and herbicides, lol
The implications of what I read here and in the comments is horrifying. Kudos if you can get away from this country; but where is this not happening? I'm poor so have no choice. I will stay and resist and fight.
You have got to be kidding me??!! Scorpion suckers? Where was this travesty? Honestly. You look beautiful and really? No slide videos? Dangit. I imagine it kinda took away your dignity. Did you know that Hitler had parties and had a slide for the arriving guests? And...they plopped out at the feet of der fuhrer and his entourage. Thanks for the insight. And seriously, what was the name of the bug selling store?
Hey, that was fabulous. The beauty of the West always makes me weak at the knees and almost homesick.
If the bug thing in the US freaks you out, it may be advisable for you to avert your gaze from Europe entirely. Here the stated plan is to kill all the world's most efficient dairy and beef herds (they'll get to the sheep and pigs next), which enjoy a standard of animal welfare unequalled anywhere on the planet, so that we can all be forced to become vegans. The bugs? Preliminary step. That's just the beating we'll get until morale improves. Militant vegans will then object to the suffering of the gnats. Bugs? A fool's game!! Algae paste. That's where the money will be . . .
(Fun fact: if all dairy cows were British or Irish cows, we'd only need 1/3rd of the world's present dairy cow population to supply all the milk. Mistreated animals do not produce like that. Seriously, animals with low self esteem do not produce that much. Being a dairy cow here is a great career move).
We have made the decision. Time to go. We're selling up and moving to poor isolated rural Italy. With a fair wind within six months. The lifestyle, for people of our age, is certainly attractive. More importantly, we need to provide a refuge / escape plan for our children and grandchildren.
I can't help but think it's all different this time and much much more dangerous. The venial corrupt and ultimately murderous polilticians (of all flavors and descriptions) are pandering to an increasingly malign bunch of citizens who demand more and more totalitarianism and control.
But then again, to steal a joke from a favorite radio priest, I'm wearing my tinfoil hat at a jaunty angle today, so maybe it's that.
I will not comply with any of the bug eating nonsense! No more mandates. And Gluck, there is no way that Houston or any part of Texas will ban meat or gas powered cars. That is now against state law. No city or county can pull any shenanigans ever again.
" who vant's to eat zee bugs?"
I'm hearing crickets!
I wonder whether the worms will be interested in eating the adrenachrome guzzling genocidal maniacs after they are cut down from their lynching.... ' you are what you eat'
They have been researching how to make human shit palatable since 2012. I'll find the articles if anyone's interested in shit eating.
' eat shit and die you bugs!'🤞😡😂
Samantha, I believe the worst, most pernicious "Bugs" in Utah may be those used throughout the nation by various alphabet agencies to populate/feed the servers in the massive data farms there.
Have a Blessed holiday !
All of ASIA eats bugs, all of Africa is thankful for 'bugs'
French have been eating snails and chocolate covered ants, since the dinosaur era;
...
angloSaxon in north Britain were openly selling human-flesh as meat in 1100AD, its not like most of the civilized world were still eating human-flesh, and we're not even talking about 'starvation', we're talking about just cheap meat; Like eating horses prior to WW2 in USA was super common, hell even rats, possum, snakes,
...
Ever popular "Shrimp", scampi, are just 'insects of the ocean', there is something early strange about this push-back,
The elite have always EATEN 'bugs', land or sea, its the poor people who didn't get to eat the food of the rich, like escargot ( snails in butter )
That Salt Lake Area has been taken over by, you know, those guys. Southern Utah is mostly different. No bugs here! (I guess I need to add “yet”). Idaho sounds terrific. My neighbor is from there and speaks so longingly of it, I might have to take a trip there with her.
Lovely photos. I have relatives descended from Danes in Utah.