Killing the planet, one COP convention at a time.
Nothing says “believe us” like doing all the things they say we must give up. They fly in private jets, eat steak and drink from plastic water bottles. Obviously, if they really thought CO2 was planetary poison, they wouldn’t be acting this way. Unless, of course, they are narcissistic overlords who believe CO2 is bad, but that the rules don’t apply the them. There is that…
Where is the cricket-burger?
COP27 Hypocrisy: Globalists Munch Down on Meat as They Push Bug Diet for the ‘Proles’
Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart
If you are saving the world it’s fine to ship that salmon in from the Atlantic:
Beef medallion with mushrooms sauce, chicken breast with orange gravy, and salmon with creamy sauce and chives are some of the menu options that world leaders, diplomats, bureaucrats, and industry bigwigs will be chomping down on at the COP27 meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt this week.
Scottish author and political commentator Neil Oliver said: “They’ve come to lecture us about eating less meat while they sit down to menus featuring beef, chicken, salmon, and sea bass and cream sauces. This is not leadership that we are seeing now, it’s desperation, it’s trolling us proles on a galactic scale.
“The policies that they are preaching are condemning hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest to poverty, starvation, death on a global scale and at the same time, in their cynicism, they are ensuring that the populations of their own countries are plunged into fuel and food poverty for the first time in generations.”
Apparently, there were a few genuine vegan and animal activists who spoke out about how bad this was. Good for them. But the UN fan-club was probably too busy enjoying an hour and a half of bottomless cocktails for £110 each.
PS: But Angus Beef and mushrooms at $100? We Australians live like kings.
h/t John Connor II
Just a couple of days ago I broiled about 8 oz. of beef, with mushrooms and red onions**. It cost me about $5.00, not counting the electricity for the oven and washing the dishes.
Had I been at the Big Party, I would not have had to do the cooking. An unfair world this is. 🙂
**Red onions have quercetin that helps Zinc cross the cell walls.
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John mentions this: (my bolding here)
My good lady has deteriorating health, and I’m now doing so much more around the house, and cooking is part of that, and I haven’t had a flop yet. I could wake her or pester her ….. how do I do this? But I have a search engine, and I’m actually trying things we’ve never had before. I got hold of two lovely, thick, (around two and a half inches) and quite large Steaks and I was going to grill them ever so slowly in the electric fry pan, having done that once before, cooking them at the absolute lowest fry pan heat setting I could, barely even warm, and I did them for four hours, and they came up sooooo tender. This time, Barbara suggested using them in a casserole, so I again used the search engine. I found a lovely recipe.
However (again highlighting perhaps male ignorance when it comes to cooking, and ingredients) the recipe called for ….. sweet onions. Huh I didn’t even know about sweet onions. I knew there were white, brown and red, and the red ones were also called Spanish onions ….. but sweet onions
So again, I went looking, and learned more about onions. I ended up using red onions, technically not in that sweet category, but hey, could it end up too far different, and I had some red onions in the crisper in the fridge.
I made a marinade and let it stay like that for three hours, and then slow cooked it in the oven (fan forced at around 120C) for four and a half hours.
Oh yum.
Some might say a waste of perfectly good steak, but this was almost divine.
Man, cooking is so much fun, way more than barbecue. And you get a whole complete (and different) new appreciation for dare I even say it, the housewife!!! (the one who does all these things automatically, knowing it all without having to ….. ‘look it up’)
Next major (experiment) is Haricot Oxtail, something I gained an appreciation of during my time in the RAAF, a meal most would say yuck to, but was actually a truly wonderful experience to eat, probably because that yuck factor is there, and it comes as such a surprise. The Haricot part is the Beans, and nowadays they call them Navy Beans, and go look that up for another surprise. Reminds me of a certain scene from Blazing Saddles.
Trust the UN to take away a newfound joy in life. I’ll bet the search engine won’t have 6 million entries on how to cook bugs.
Tony.
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Dont now if you use one already but slow cookers are wonderful things in winter. Lots of recipes and the classic one pot wonder that you just turn on and come back hours later to a wonderfully tasty dish.
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Nice report, Tony. My wife also had health issues toward the end, but I’ve done the cooking all along – she brought the bacon home – so to speak.
Because of where I live, a vegetable garden is mostly misplaced optimism. Except for onions, most years. There are many types, and I learned about them from a commercial site in Texas. At my latitude (47° N), I concentrate on long-day-length types.
https://dixondalefarms.com/
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How does one spell hypocrisy? C-O-P- -M-E-E-T-I-N-G-S
NSW is distributing insect-based crisps bags to schoolchildren. Politicians eat beef.
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No matter. As long as the meat is halal.
I’m pretty sure you can not sell bugburgers to people of the Muslim faith.
I wonder what they really think of the idolatry that Gaia worship is.
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Mohammedans will eat grasshoppers, locusts and crickets (all related).
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I went to a chili cook off at my place of employment today. Some of the chili entries had crickets served on the side. Some of the guests at my table ate the chili with crickets. They tried to pressure me into eating some, but I declined.
I saw an article recently that said (IIRC) the chitin (the crisp part my friends said they liked) was not digestible by humans. It also said they contain parasites.
I have trouble believing that the people pushing this bug-diet idea would actually shift their diet away from meat to bugs.
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The method used to be have some chickens around the place, and any scraps (with bugs or without) get thrown to the chickens.
Turning garbage into food very efficiently … for thousands of years. Heck, is that “sustainable” or what?
Dunno why we decided to skip straight to eating the garbage.
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Later I told one of my friends, “I will eat my crickets after they have been processed through a chicken…into eggs or chicken meat.”
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Chris Kenny has his say..
https://climatechangedispatch.com/australias-climate-policies-putting-people-on-a-highway-to-economic-hell/
“They don’t question the alarmist rhetoric, they don’t insert the facts, they don’t expose the failures and the hypocrisy, they just join in the orgy of climate fear porn along with sanctimonious virtue signaling.””
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Any pork dishes at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt?
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Mr. George: The answer is, probably yes but they have to call it camel. You infidel you.
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No Long Pig as served once . So delicious and sweet-Far superior to Beef. Reminds me of a tourism ad for one country that asked for more tourists to visit as the last lot were delicious!
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Or alcohol.
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Curious George:
No, all the pigs are at the trough.
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Now that. as they say in my favourite UKTV programme “Aussie gold Hunters” , “that is a ripper”
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Pork in Egypt is called “cheap beef” so they can eat it.
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Next GOP28 will be in Dearborn Homes in Chicago. Attendees will have to grow their own food in the communal garden while bartering with the locals for their other needs. Beds will be allocated but anybody in need occupying them will not be moved. Ditto back home in their usual abode.
Attendees will still be flown in, as long as they stay until enough trees grow to offset emissions.
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I recall not so long ago one of the resident Leftists of this blog laughing at me about my claim that the Left plan for us (non-Elites) to eat insects, and yet at that same time insects were being served in 1000 Aussie schools – in a nation that once relished its consumption of its home grown high quality and once-inexpensive meat products.
Naturally the Elite hypocrites of the Left will never eat “ze insects” as Herr Klaus Schwab would call them.
Also, information about private jets at COP27 seems to have been censored this year, you can normally find information about private jet parking arrangements at COPxx and also reports on the problems with finding parking places for all those private jets.
Pet peeve: Technically bugs are insects of the order Hemiptera. They are characterised by having piercing, sucking mouthparts for sucking sap etc. and are otherwise known as “true bugs”. One of the main insects Leftists want non-Elites to eat is the cricket, and these are not true bugs.
Nevertheless, I acknowledge that “bugs” commonly referred to all insects.
REFERENCES about Elite promotion of insect eating for non-Elites:
See UN page https://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/
See WEF page https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ “Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food systems”
And Australia’s own CSIRO:
https://research.csiro.au/edibleinsects/
“To develop resilient food systems, we need to diversify global food supply chains. With more than 2,100 insect species currently eaten by two billion people from 130 countries, edible insects present an important opportunity. Insects have high-value nutritional profiles and commercial insect farming is considered to have a low environmental footprint.”
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Keep your powder dry me hearties.
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Stay afraid DM. It is great motivation.
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“Stay afraid “
That’s why you are here ?
Scared of a little bit of normal weather ?
Looking forward to your enforced “bug” diet… ?
Enjoy your crickets for lunch and your wichetty-grubs for dinner !
Bound to be some in a tree near you.
Get motivated… Good hunting ! 🙂
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What has a temperature of 80 degrees and eats meat?
Ans! COP 27
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Only 80F outside, they of course pontificate in airconditioned comfort, the kind they would lie to see the rest of us use less of.
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I bet not one of the Elites that attend COPxx would have any clue whatsoever about how to grow food. Probably many of them think it grows on supermarket shelves, or more likely in the kitchen of their favourite Le Cordon Bleu chef.
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This is a remarkably weird thing to write.
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They are mostly mindless, hypocritical, inner-city leftist politicians.
David is probably spot-on with his comments.
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English is a third language for you?
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They know exactly where food comes from. They simply grab the nearest peasant and shout, “Get me some food!”
If that doesn’t work, the peasant needs punishment for disobedience … might be a secret phobi-phobi-phobe or some kind of hater, grandma killer.
It’s a reliable system, been well tested. The peasants don’t like it but they always have the choice to vote for someone else (chortle).
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Australians are living like kings at a third the price, if it is $100 for an Angus steak at Sharm Al Sheik.
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That would be USD also , so about AUD150. Its OK , its on expenses.
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No pork in Egypt?
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Remember, Australia is bidding to host COP31.
Will they be serving what Australia was once famous for, meat, dairy and seafood? Or, given how the Australian Government is a FANATICAL follower of UN and WEF decrees, will it be “ze bugs” with an Aussie touch like witchetty grubs and the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)?
In any case, the Australian economy will be well on the way to Third World status by that time.
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In any case, the Australian economy will be well on the way to Third World status by that time. It’s a race among the western nations: who makes it first to the third world status.
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Yep, just like communism – a race to the bottom.
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The message from the COP27 feast is clear.
The Leftist Elites will eat the finest real foods.
The rest of us will be made to eat poverty food, insects and gruel.
What better way to enforce this class distinction?
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But Angus Beef and mushrooms at $100? We Australians live like kings.
But as well said in the Rocky Horror Show – “Not for very much longer” !
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None of that food would have been grown locally, all flown in on jet aircraft.
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Sustainability COP27 style with hypocrisy sides and totalitarian sauce.
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Are we likely to find out what meals the members of the Australian delegation had, and what they cost?
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“and what they cost?”
And who paid for it. !
(taxpayers… destined for a cockroach/locust diet, would be my guess.)
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Gosh. What a surprise. Who’d a thunk it. Etc.
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‘All animals are equal but some are more equal than others’
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This quote never fades.
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There is a simple answer to all this – Let them eat Cake!
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