The headline is a PsyOp all on its own. You didn’t know you were not allowed to eat crickets and powdered mealworm larvae before. Rejoice in a freedom won:
Europeans now also allowed to eat cricket powder and small mealworms
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The European Commission declares new insect products safe for consumption. So from Tuesday, powdered house crickets and the small mealworm will also be allowed in food.
Back in February last year, the European Union announced that three species of insects would henceforth be allowed for human consumption: the migratory spider cricket, the yellow mealworm and the house cricket. Now the European Commission is adding several more insect products to the authorised list…
Insects, they tell us, are “highly nutritious” in a vague non-specific way that does not list a single nutrient which we can’t get enough of at the moment. Instead the main, “unique” selling point is that if we eat crickets we might slow storms eighty years from now:
Insects are also seen as part of the transition to a more environmentally friendly and plant-based food system. The creatures emit less greenhouse gases, have a lot less water and arable land, and convert food into protein much more efficiently than traditional sources of meat.
Ponder that this is yet another vested industry — dependent on the broken climate models. Another cheer squad for carbon taxes.
Cricket Flour could turn up anywhere:
European Union Approves Cricket Powder As Component Of Flour-Based Foods Despite ‘Inconclusive’ Allergy Data
Daily Wire
Cricket powder will now be permitted in a number of food products, such as multigrain bread, crackers, cereal bars, biscuits, beer-like beverages, chocolates, sauces, whey powder, soups, and other items “intended for the general population,” according to the new regulation.
Get ready: It doesn’t need to have specific labeling because we aren’t absolutely sure if it will kill people yet:
Because evidence linking cricket powder to allergic reactions is “inconclusive,” the European Commission decided that no specific labeling requirements should be included in the EU list of authorized novel foods, according to the regulation.
The New York Allergy and Sinus Centers has nevertheless found that “several allergic reactions to crickets” have been reported in the past two years. Individuals allergic to shellfish such as shrimp, crabs, and lobsters “may develop an allergy to crickets” because the species share many of the same proteins.
While insects don’t need a “special label” they do need to be listed somewhere in 4 point font on ingredients lists:
However, the European Commission insists that ingredients must always be properly declared on packaging labels. Manufacturers must always indicate which type of insect it concerns. After all, some people may be allergic to insect food, although this needs to be investigated further. This would mainly concern consumers who are also allergic to crustaceans, molluscs or house dust mites.
On the downside, if you have a prawn or dust-mite allergy you may now need an epipen since prawns and dust-mites didn’t use to suddenly appear in chips and crackers. And hardly anyone sold prawn-flavoured-beer or dust-mite-in-dips. On the upside, if you don’t die, after a few painful years you may have done your own oral desensitization program which normally costs $3,000 from an immunologist.
Of course, we could all just share photos and boycott them all. Vote with your wallet.
“It’s better for the environment” chirps the local Woolworths Australian variety. At least this is not hiding in a cake mix.
The globalists ever so crappy,
Say eat ze bugs and be happy,
But Jiminy Cricket,
Their taste is so wicked,
That we all end up wearing a nappy.
–Ruairi
h/t John Connor, David Maddison.
Photo from Thailand Unique Cricket Flour Shop
Does this mean we have to read the label on every loaf of bread we buy.
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I would suggest that any bread-maker in Australia found to be using cricket powder would quickly live up to the motto.. “go woke.. go broke” !
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Spread the word. As soon as a brand brings in one product, we share the news.
Better still — write to Kelloggs or Tip Top etc preemptively and ask them if they have any plans to use insect flour. Can they guarantee their products are free and will stay free of crickets and mealworms?
If we need to read ingredients all the time, it’s easy to switch, and not just switch from one type of bread but to a whole new brand. It’s a lot easier to say “No to XXX” entirely than to list which particular products are a problem.
And if we mention Dust mite allergies, they may recognise how common and legally risky this is.
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Good point, Jo.
” At least this is not hiding in a cake mix. ” YET.
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People have been eating mealworms ever since Adam.
If you do a bit of a check here you might find that somebody has a pile of insect infested grain that he/she is wanting to flog off.
The relevant fact for the scholars is that the sum nutritious value is less than that of the clean grain.
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Bug infested grain is usually flogged off cheaper as stock feed.
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I can see and ‘insect free’ marketing campaign
Like ‘gluten free’
Big label on EVERYTHING
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I eat crickets all the time. My Chickens eat the crickets/insects then lay eggs and I eat the eggs. Nice.
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Like I enjoy eating grass, so long as it’s been processed into beef.
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But chickens can process the chitin and break it down, which humans can’t. Did you know that?
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Better still v2 – write to them and tell them you’ll boycott their products if they contain insect products.
What one person writes, 5000 think.
Better still v3 – back companies that market “insect free” products, which I’d think is a savvy marketing strategy, just like low fat, low carb etc.
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I’m sure these products will be renamed before introducing them into foods, like Monosodium Glutonate was simply called ‘flavour enhancer’ and various chemicals were just given innocuous numbers.
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The ratbags driving this push are Death-Cultists.
“Thinning the Herd” is their prime directive.
Loudly promoting this stuff is also an exercise in provocation.
Anyone and EVERYONE who pops up to decry the madness will be “noted” Basic “politics 101”.
Never forget that it is not “paranoia” when someone really is out to harm you.
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You are correct Jo – it says there is no specific (ie pertaining to data for that particular species) allergic labeling BUT there is allergic labeling relating to exactly what you mention. The following paragraphs are from the regulation document.
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Like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_fly
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So will the ingredients list include Cricket Flour, or Acheta domesticus?
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was always a bit wary of the “fried grasshoppers found as “bar-snacjs” across South-East Asia and especially in Thailand.
Big question; HOW were they ‘harvested?
Individually shot in the back of the head?
Or “fumigated” in bulk using a “budget” insecticide, the residue of which will be present in the little chitinous “nibblies”??
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Ever seen a Species-genus on an ingredient list.
Funny way to admit being wrong.
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The USA recently listed sesame seeds as a food allergen. Large companies do not want to have separate facilities for specific products when some use sesame and some do not. They have begun adding a little sesame flour to all sorts of products and putting it on the label. The result appears to be that it will be in most products that include flour; except when a product specifically claims Sesame free. Those will have to be baked in a separate facility, and likely will cost more. Sesame-Free will become a marketing phrase.
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I wonder how many of the elite bureaucrats in the EU eat bugs in their bread?
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I’m sure the EU are totally committed to your good health & cricket & worm powder will also be an excellent way to ward off any future pandemic.
Amazing what can achieved using a system of government whose members are appointed & don’t need to worry about elections or gaining office thru voting systems as practised in Democratic government.
Democracy is dying the world over.
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Sanity is dying the world over…..
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The world needs more Kookaburras, they love cockroaches so presumably they’d be keen to help with the crickets.
Sadly this might take recipes like curried crickets from the human menu but that’s a sacrifice most of us could live with.
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“curried crickets”
First test against India starts on Feb 9th in Nagpur !
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Are these mealworms and crickets sustainably & naturally sourced?
Or are they produced in battery farms like chickens?
Are they handpicked or are solar-powered industrial harvesters required?
What will the PETA-files make of this burgeoning industry based on the death of insects that can feel pain?
What is Soylent Green?
More questions than you can shake a stick at…
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“Or are they produced in battery farms like chickens?”
I’ve pondered these sorts of questions. There are under-utilized office buildings (remote work etc) so these could be repurposed. Food for the bugs would have to be brought in. A tower with 30,000,000 crickets might produce noise pollution, but if rural folks can put up with wind turbines, urban folk can listen to chirps.
Dolbear’s law
Temperature (F) = number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds + 40
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Reminds me of one of those silly ‘pop’ songs from long ago (don’t blame me if it turns into an ear-worm) and 1, 2, 3, 4 –
Last night I heard my mama singin’ a song,
Ooowee, chirpy-chirpy cheap-cheap,
Chirpy-chirpy cheap-cheap CHIRP!
Won’t somebody think of the
whales snailscrickets 🎶70
How long before crickets and mealworms go on to the UN critically endangered species list?
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One of the enterprises at a very integrated Chinese farm I got to visit way back in BC included raising scorpions for traditional medicine. They were raised in a big clay pot about the size of a 44 gallon drumfilled with broken pottery pieces.
No head count but it looked like it held a lot of scorpions.
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Yuk.
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I prefer baseball myself.
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Insects are primitive food and poverty food.
I bet they didn’t serve them at the WEF feasts in Davos or EU Parliament or UN HQ.
Humans haven’t needed to eat insects since agriculture was invented 10,000 years ago.
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Which is one of those subtle twisted marketing realities they don’t tell you.
Yes, people in poor countries eat them, not because they’re nutritious or tasty, but because that’s all they have TO eat.
Give them a tasty hamburger as a choice and see what happens.
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John,
We might be all fighting over cockroaches if this war escalates any further . We are sleepwalking into a world of pain .
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Yes, and cockroaches are reported to be resistant to nuclear radiation. Looks like a good start up business that might survive WWIII.
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Speak for yourself.😉
Some of us are VERY well setup and VERY well informed.
The vast majority, ignorantly backing Zelensky, are in real trouble, real soon.
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I read somewhere that the first farmed thing was snails .
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I am looking for investors in my new co “Bugs R us” . I am looking at growing giant centipedes with numerous very chunky legs. This is with the aim of supplying those firms with huge demand for Fried legs-such as MacDonalds and Kentucky fried chicken. If I get the $20 million I am hoping for I will need a very skilled marketing team to persuade the end users that eating bug legs is little different to eating chicken legs and is much better for the planet. Obviously I intend to be carbon neutral from the start.
Who wants to invest? You can use Pay Pal to send me money. Nothing less than $1 million a time. What can go wrong?
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Could you even tell the difference with Maccas and KFC?
Hmm, Kentucky Fried Cricket has a certain ring to it.
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I always thought that KFC meant Kentucky Fried Cat. And that wiv’ Macdonald’s being a Scottish name it was all to do wiv’ Haggis, tatties (spuds) and neaps (turnips)……………..Not too sure about Hungry Jacks though. Maybe a mix of the other two………………….
Red Rooster is the way to go. C*ck a Doodle Dooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Seems to me that the giant centipedes would be tailor-made for replicating the southeast Asian food markets hawking various fried insects on a stick — you just clip them off at the number of segments the customer wants, thread it on the skewer, and drop it in the oil…
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Anyone seen that Bear Gryll’s episode where he eats a giant plump grub and its yellow guts spurt out disgustingly?
You can keep your insects, grubs, worms.
JC2 only eats REAL meat as nature intended.
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Reminds one of the story concerning a farmer who hit on the idea of breeding four-legged chickens to double the number of drumsticks. His breeding program was highly successful, but the business plan failed, as he found he couldn’t catch them.
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tonyb,there may be some pushback here,I may join the OTHER side and create The society for the prevention of cruelty to BUGS.Your BUGS will have to be sustainably sourced and killed and processed with new RSPCA rules,which I’m sure won’t be far away.Good luck.
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I hope this new product was tested on mice.
At least 8.
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I’d eat the mice before the bugs!
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Ok fertlizer but nothing more . .
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It is claimed that non-Elites eating insects will save the planet from inevitable mass extinction and destruction but that is another lie.
If you look at the following link you will see some food conversion ratios for various animals. Crickets are comparable to chickens and various other animals.
https://www.tabledebates.org/research-library/feed-conversion-efficiency-aquaculture-do-we-measure-it-correctly
More importantly, the Elites are lying about the food conversion ratio of crickets. It is not as good as claimed.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118785
Making non-Elites eat insects is all about having two food streams, one for the serfs (us) and one for the Elites (them).
Just how it was before the Enlightenment and Industrial and Scientific revolutions and in dynastic China and anywhere else with a strongly class-stratified system.
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I prefer my daily dose of SOMA with strawberry Coulis.
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And of course, Australia once again proves its fanatical commitment to UN and WEF decrees, and pioneers feeding this garbage to children and indoctrinating them.
Back in the day, making children eat insects would have been considered child abuse.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Cockroaches are specifically designed for stomping on ! (not with bare feet, though)
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One certain way to avoid insects in food now and in future is to eat only foods certified as kosher because insects are specifically not kosher. This already applies to any product that contains the red food colouring called cochineal derived from Dactylopius coccus insects and therefore such products are not kosher. That incidentally already includes a surprisingly large amount of products that contain red colouring. You may already be eating insect juice.
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Yes I’ve thought this angle may be important (well, at least until kosher eaters are persecuted).
I’m starting to attend synagogue.
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Are you sure they’re not kosher? Old Testament says they’re ok.
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Not today for a vast majority of Jews because the traditions of which specific species are kosher have been forgotten by various communities and there is no continuous tradition of which species are OK. And if you want to be especially pedantic, there are some small communities of Sephardic Jews from Yemen who do or did have a tradition of eating certain specific species of locusts but the practice is uncommon or not practiced at all. Also when it was practiced many centuries ago it was always regarded as food for the poor.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_locust?wprov=sfla1
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Thanks for that.
Quite amusing — not much doubt the bugs got knocked on the head out of squeamishness, with all the legalese layered on top for cover.
The Jews should have realised that it was merely permissible to eat crickets. It’s only the green religion that wants to make it mandatory.
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John the Baptist ate “locusts and wild honey” when he wa living in the wilderness. Matthew 3:4.
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I understand that the “locusts” referred to carob tree beans in the pod.
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Also, crickets would not be acceptable as food to Buddhists as insects are considered as living things.
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These people are nuts. Did the members of the select club, the special people as John Kerry called them, really take the jab? Did Joe Biden really have his FOUR shots and then his TWO cases of Covid. We have been dudded and our so called leaders are complicit by their silence or enthusiastic acceptance. It is no wonder that many people no longer trust government. Government does not deserve our trust. If they allow the BoM, the CSIRO and the ABC to perpetuate obvious lies then the government is untrustworthy.
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Well I just sat down to a meal of barbequed beef potato salad, fresh vegies, and with ice cream for desert. Take that WEF.
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And now I’m going to go out and fire up my diesel pickup truck and go back to work.
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I trust the truck is a Cummins or Duramax V8? All the better.
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Ah, but did you read the label on the ice cream?
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I’m really confused now. How is using cricket powder, with a feed conversion efficiency similar to chooks, more efficient than just using flour?
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Of course, it’s not about supposed feed conversion efficiency anyway.
It’s about putting the serfs (us) “in their place” and forcing us to eat poverty food while they (the Elites) eat the finest steaks.
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Not clear to me but it appears to try and add probably protein? Flours from grain have low to none of protein.
It’s all nuts anyway cause we know how to create tender delicious protein already. Why reinvent that?
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Australian Prime Hard wheat is in over 12% protein.
Perhaps it is a cunning plan to use stock feed grade wheat for human consumption.
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Ordinary flour is normally about 11%. Fine for cakes and cookies/biscuits.
Bread flour (more expensive) is 12%.
But homemade bread tastes better – especially 10 minutes out of the oven
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Yum
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At most they are allowed to use 3% (the regulations specify different levels for different products) which is maybe an additional 1% protein. Hardly going to make the muscles bulge.
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Meanwhile the EXTINCT Rebs cultists and THEIR Celebrity followers + funders are increasing the pressure to DO more about ENDING our reliance on terrible fossil fuels ASAP.
These elite celebs couldn’t care less about we ordinary folk as long as they can preen their feathers in the MSM spotlight. So when will these clueless lefty elites sit down to a meal of worms and bugs and assorted insect juices? I suspect not anytime soon.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/25/stephen-fry-emma-thomson-and-aisling-bea-stop-financing-fossil-fuel/
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I am going to need to see the raw data concerning cricket farts. No point developing a taste for them just to see them banned in a year because 30,000 of them emit the same greenhouse gas load as does one cow.
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If I was a food manufacturer, I’d be proudly advertising my product as insect free.
That, is, unless the Sheeple have been so indoctrinated that they see eating insects as a desirable thing.
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DM, just give them time. I’ve found that some lefty loony cultists will just about BELIEVE in anything.
One more generation of kiddie’s indoctrination may do the trick.
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That used to be one of the things done by health inspectors.
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Going on how the meat substitute market is going “No Bugs” looks like a viable campaign
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So, I asked my family if they wanted some bread made from that flour and all I heard was crickets.
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Sorry if this is off-topic but it is an important development.
I was horrified to discover this morning that my money for the Dr Peter McCullough and Dr Pierre Kory event in Australia had been refunded by Eventbrite, the ticketing agency, not the organisers, because the event “does not comply with our Community Guidelines“.
I hypothesise that Eventbrite have been leaned on by Leftist agitators, Big Pharma or the Australian Government or likely all of them.
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Where and when is this event?
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Ask Eventbrite for a full explanation.
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Google Eventbrite says 6 days ago Melbourne event sold out, more tickets coming.
Click on the article, both venues say currently unavailable.
Check it out. I’d never heard of Eventbrite. They might be sensitive to criticism if they have acted against this event.
Tell us if you find anything.
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In Sydney, Melbourne and Gold Coast. Only Sydney and Melbourne were cancelled by Eventbrite, not Gold Coast for unknown reasons.
Organisers are having to re-ticket thousands of people at the last minute, no announcement made yet.
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Event dates were Gold Coast 10 Feb, Sunshine Coast 11 Feb, Melb 12 Feb and Syd 13 Feb.
Organisers refuse to be censored. The events will go ahead one way or another.
Frankly, I’m surprised that the Australian Government even allowed McCullough and Kory to come at all.
Maybe we’ll find they’ll get here then deported anyway like Djokovic.
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9th Jan vax activists want gov to deny McCulloch a visa.
Am I right to understand here that Eventbrite contracted to provide a service, accepted money in the provision of that service, then withdrew the service?
That, surely, would be a naughty thing to do.
It looks likely that they were in some way leant on.
Who by? And how?
What is needed is pushback.
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Craig Kelly has confirmed that Eventbrite will face legal action over this.
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This came from Craig Kelly on telegram:
A few hours ago EventBrite in the USA have sent this email out to everyone that bought tickets to see Dr. McCullough in Australia
Eventbrite can go to hell
We are making alternate arrangements to get tickets to everyone – so don’t worry.
We do not live in Nth Korea or Nazi Germany – WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED !
Eventbrite have picked on the wrong people.
We will be suing these bastards.
The enemies of Freedom will be held accountable.
In the meantime, we already have a team working to contact everyone & get them their tickets.
And we will have more tickets on sale very soon.
Freedom always wins in the end.
Please spread the word
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Thanks everybody, sorry for being a pain. It just seemed such a shocking admission of Pfizer, I wanted to put it out there. ToM
[Not a pain just repost your comment into Friday unthread.]AD
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Isn’t it “Australian cricket power”?
Do they turn them into ashes?
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That might be viable. Burn the crickets!
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OH no it seems that GAS prices are now dropping to pre war lows.
So why do we subsidise their TOXIC UNRELIABLE S & W lunacy for ZERO gain when we should be using RELIABLE FOSSIL fuels like COAL and GAS?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/26/gas-fired-power-is-now-cheaper-than-offshore-wind-again/
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Back to the good ole days of the British Navy and ship’s biscuits.
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The salt pork probably won’t be allowed, though.
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Eat fruits/vegetables otherwise it’s scurvy for you…………………
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It’s a myth that you need fruit and vegetables to avoid scurvy.
You can get enough vitamin c from meats and organ meats.
I am not sure if dried meats have enough vitamin c but cured meats can.
Pickles do contain enough vitamin c to prevent scurvy as well.
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Don’t forget Soylent Green too ! 🙂
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Soylent Green was set in 2022.
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Eat not play, cricket that is! You can use the willow to crush them into a paste, condiments to taste and a dash of curry! Then Pray!
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I am as likely to buy products containing insects as I am to shop at woke, anti-Australian KMart again.
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Humans make up a very miniscule portion of living things on Earth.
And scientists now guestimate that 99% of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are now EXTINCT.
Who knows, but I’m sure Tania Plibersek will find something more to worry about on her 6th extinction joyride that the UN etc are now warning/ worrying us about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_organisms_by_population
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Beside House Bricket, Yellow Mealworm, the Migratory Locust is also part of the food insects in form of powder.
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…Cricket….
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Excellent. Good luck catching the damned things, though.
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Insects in beer ? some things are sacred and the beer drinkers of Oz will stand up and unite in this travesty .
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The “I” in IPA apparently isn’t India…
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I have worked with cricket flour in the past and did some work with an outstanding nutritionist in the US at that time.
He had several warnings about the use of insect meals that bear being taken account of. THESE ARE SERIOUS
1. Dead and Decaying insects in product being processed = toxins
In beef and meat production you do not process already dead animals. There is good reason for this. But the nutritionist warned that a lot of dead and decaying insects are being processed. Some of these may have moulded or accumulated toxins due to the decaying nature.
2. Poor nutrition
In animal feedlots nutritionists oversee the diets of the animals, but my friend warned me that many of the insect farms he knew of just fed the animals waste with no idea of nutrition. He was trying to interest these farms in nutritional premixes with the right levels of minerals & vitmains into the insects (he observed the vast majority of insects from these farms showed evidence of calcium and other deficiency with weak limbs, broken limbs and poor condition) – but nobody could care.
So we have nutritent deficient products being promoted with no regard to the impact on humans…
3. Chitin
Consuming large quantities of chitin, which occurs in insects, is not benign. We have no idea of how this will go long term. Yet here we are, careless and irresponsible about food used for children in many cases…
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I agree PoB, I don’t know how insects could be hygienic in an insect farming scenario.
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Folks, I’m here to tell you there’s absolutely no need to eat crickets for protein. Crickets eat grass, so do cows. If we eat cows we’re eating a plant-based product that has good texture but tastes heaps better than crickets. Do you think Bill and Klaus are going to pass up a steak to eat powdered crickets? Not on your nellies, mates!
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I don’t like the term “insect farm“.
Back in the day, accumulations of insects were called infestations and you’d call the pest exterminator.
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Oh, to be top of the food chain again.
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And politically I’m on the insecticide.
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and politically: I’m on the pest exterminator side….
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The cockroaches are at the top of the food chain. /probablymissedsarcasm
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There are no cave paintings of crickets.
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Vegetarians returning from the hunt
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It’s NOT JUST Cricket! the diet may also include SOLDIER FLIES or products derived from them, I believe. Watching German news programs last night ( by jove – they, the germans, are just FULL of this rubbish this now ) Yes the soldier fly products were being fed to Hens and pigs at this stage, and the excrement fed to the plants. Question: WHAT is all the Insect population to be fed on? are we going to plough the fields, spread the fertilisers and harvest the crops to feed the insects to feed us ?
All very well at Lab. scale, as “proof of concept” but in reality ? and are vegans going to eat insects ? Jings from what I know of some of them, there’s a big enough stooshie when a fly falls in their soup.
https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/household/flies-house/ent-2005/ for starters anyone ?
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Fruits and vegetables seem clean and healthy, don’t they? Think again. Fresh asparagus is allowed to contain 10 or more thrips per ounce, and a half-pound of golden raisins is permitted 35 fruit fly eggs and 10 or more whole insects, or an equivalent amount of insect heads and legs. A single unit of canned or frozen spinach may have 50 thrips, aphids, and/or mites, or possibly the larvae of spinach worms — or even eight whole leaf miner bugs. A can of sweet corn is permitted two or more corn earworm larvae, as well as larvae fragments and shed skins. Canned mushrooms are really concerning, with 20 maggots “of any size” permitted in just a four-ounce can. Canned tomatoes are a bit better, though, with only two maggots permitted per 16 ounces — what a relief! Tomato juice, though, is not so great, as a 14-ounce can is allowed to include four maggots and 20 fruit fly eggs. Canned citrus juices can have five or more fruit fly eggs and one maggot per cup.
Read More: https://www.mashed.com/169571/heres-how-many-insect-parts-are-allowed-in-your-food/
It’s to save the planet.
As for saving you, well…
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JC, did you have to reveal that? Us aggies would prefer the general public are blissfully unaware of such facts! I could elaborate on all the “ natural” toxins in a lot of fruit and vegetables we eat, but time does not permit. But to add to your comments a few years back someone did an estimate of the likely insect and spider contamination in wine grape yields. Needless to say that tangy Shiraz you like? Well , it may not be tannic acid after all. Maybe the degraded remnants of thousands of spiders and other creepy craw lies. 🙂
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So let’s all starve! That’s your solution?
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Maggots etc are just extra protein!
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And now that I have seen Australian Cricket powder in bags, I think Australia could be top of the cricket world. Perhaps Gilly, our Adam Gilchrist could be our cricket ambassador flogging our wares in India for example. They adore the crickets and the barbies.
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Just received this Email confirming what I’ve read earlier … but it is NOT making its way through on the british marketplace: Düngerpreise stürzen ab – Weltmarkt im freien Fall :: Heizölpreise fallen deutlich :: Die Kuh ist kein „Klimakiller“
Heizölpreise fallen deutlich – Die Ruhe vor dem Sturm? #heizölpreis #heizölkaufen = Heating oil prices falling – the quiet before the storm https://www.agrarwelt.com/top-meldungen/heizoelpreise-fallen-deutlich-die-ruhe-vor-dem-sturm-heizoelpreis-heizoelkaufen.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl-20230126
Düngerpreise stürzen ab – Weltmarkt im freien Fall #düngerpreise = … world market in freefall https://www.agrarwelt.com/top-meldungen/duengerpreise-stuerzen-ab-weltmarkt-im-freien-fall-duengerpreise-harnstoffpreis.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl-20230126
SO I don’t really know what the EU is telling us ( them). Fuel prices here still quite volatile except at the Retail pumps… and I’m supposed to Plan ahead , like a 5-year plan, I’ve been told !
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And from my post on the previous blog
“For now, the WEF and EU and UN say let them eat crickets.
So all the quality meat, prawns, lobsters, wine and coal can go to their perfect society, Marxist China.”
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from the actual published regulation
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R0005&from=EN
Note also that this is all for one manufacturer with specific restrictions.
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Weren’t you the one saying David Madison was nuts for saying that bugs were going to be pushed upon us some time back?
Don’t make me search it out just come clean.
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He is nuts and that is not the full extent of what he said.
Also, they are not being pushed upon us.
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The more you know, the crazier you look to ignorant people.
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GA can eat as many insect CRACKERS as them/they wants to.
You are what you eat.
But nobody should be put in the situation of unknowningly eating insect anything. !
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GA calling someone else “nuts” is highly amusing … and totally irrelevant to any rational conversation !
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Yes, Bozotheclown she did say something to the effect that I was nuts for expressing concern that we were being prepared for insect consumption. And she just called me “nuts” again.
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Oh the profanity.
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Oh, please tell me they have been slaughtered humanely!
Tony.
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That reminds me of the wonderful Bill Leak.
He drew a cartoon of PM Juiia togged and kitted as a butcher, ex PM Kevin in pieces all over the floor, with the head sitting up still talking.
I cant recall who the identifiable onlookers were, but one said to the other: “I told her that she should have stunned it first.”
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I’m running out of conspiracy theories- they’re all coming true.
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The covid vaccine disaster has caused the roll-out of huge numbers of automatic cardiac defibrillators.
Contaminating the food supply with insects will require a massive roll-out of epinephrine injectors to treat anaphylaxis.
Might as well put them next to the defibrillators.
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Or is the insect skeleton content and the accompanying allergic reaction the “real problem” instead of gluten intolerance?
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David, heard on the news while driving. New Cholesterol tests required for young people who are at risk from dying from heart disease. This new test is for a different “form of cholesterol” that is hereditary, not diet related.
Looks like clutching at straws to explain why so many young people are suddenly dropping dead.
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Just as the National Socialists first introduced wind power in its modern interpretation (electricity producing windmills) and that ideology is followed by modern Socialists, so too do modern Socialists follow the demonisation of meat* by the National Socialists, many of whom professed to be vegetarian, including their leader.
*By meat I mean typical farm animals as found in Western countries. Insects are not “meat”.
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The globalists ever so crappy,
Say eat ze bugs and be happy,
But Jiminy Cricket,
Their taste is so wicked,
That we all end up wearing a nappy.
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When beef fowl and hog are not any longer freely available I may need to make my own soylent green. I have an old family recipe almost like pemmican. I pick the bugs out.
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“I may need to make my own soylent green. I have an old family recipe almost like pemmican. ”
So Bozo, is your “old family” aware that they are part of the recipe?
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The EU has always operated on a principle of ‘Anything not compulsory is forbidden’. They have even had lists of which cultivars of fruits and vegetables can be commercially grown and sold. A permitted list is by its nature much more restrictive than a prohibited list.
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Insect food.
As Vegans cannot eat anything that comes from a living source (even milk), will they be allowed to eat this stuff and can they sue a producer, who fails to include it in the contents label? Ibbo
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Exactly the same as anything else that is not disclosed. It happens; vegans can inadvertently or be mislead to eat animal products. It is not new.
Also a failure to disclose ingredients is against regulations and would be dealt with accordingly.
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“vegans can inadvertently or be mislead to eat animal products.”
Vegans aren’t really all that bright, y’know !
Something about their diet, I reckon. 😉
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Soylent Green surely can’t be far away.
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Yes.
Why else would we be getting “primed” with articles like this?
We are indeed being primed.
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David,
Get in ahead of the curve – put out a cannibal sauce . Maybe you could call it “Long Pig Basting sauce”? Perhaps we could have a competition to officially name it ? (sarc…?)
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Does cooking get rid of the mRNA spikes ?
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Without looking it up, off the top of my head, it would be very difficult to protect mRNA in the cooking process. REmember the vaccines had to be stored at -70C because mRNA is so unstable. Room temperature ruins mRNA.
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These comments made me recall the book written by James Cooke titled Anthropophagatism in the Antipodes ( translation Cannibalism in Australia). It would appear some of the First Nations can give us some pointers here when there is a shortage of protein! All the more reason to vote yes to the “Voice” so Aussies have some hope of utilising this First Nations knowledge and custom. (Sarc)
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Full title:
Anthropophagitism in the antipodes ; or cannibalism in Australia, with a discourse on the evils thereof
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Wasn’t there a slogan years ago (among the Marxists) “Eat the Rich”?
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Also:
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Thanx DM, haven’t seen that before.
Ok. lets have a look at the Professor.
He believes in “Climate Change”
He wants us to combat it.
How?
“Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climate change.”
This is a quote from the link/article provided above by David M,
“The resistance that humans have to overcome in order to consider other humans food is linked to selfishness, according to the scientist.
But as an expert in behaviors, he thinks that people can ultimately be “tricked” into “making the right decisions”.”
OK….
So he is a scientist talking about combating climate change.
Therefore we need to follow what he says , don’t we? That’s what we are constantly told. Trust their Science!
Yet I will reiterate:
“he thinks that people can ultimately be “tricked” into “making the right decisions”.”
So what qualification does our esteemed “scientist” hold?
OK, I found he works in the field of “Social science”.
Magnus Söderlund is currently a Professor of Marketing and Center Director of the Center for Consumer
Marketing at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
One can find his page here (current as of 27 Jan 2023):
https://www.hhs.se/sv/persons/s/soderlund-magnus/
Sadly, imho he is as relevant to climate science as our esteemed Australian, Prof T. Flummery.
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Soylent Green, here we come.
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In a fair world; if the tables turn:
Could we feed some of them to the meat ants?
Given what we get from today’s processed foods, with all the preservatives, phytoestrogens & “Flavour Enhancers”, tossing the WEFfers onto the ant farm would be like giving them a high cholesterol Paleo Diet.
or would that be a crime against the insects?
/sarc.^3
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Methinks this is part of clever use of misinformation.
Crickets and other little critters have been caught up in the process ever since mechanised harvesting was introduced for broadacre crops. And mealworms have been a problem in bulk flour grinding since Conan was chained to a millwheel. Getting rid of these contaminants” is a costly process.
How much easier – and more the point cheaper – to simply leave the little critters in and convince people they are a “value added product” (protein).
A similar sleight of hand was used to introduce “unleaded” petrol.
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Perhaps you meant ethanol petrol? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead is indeed poison and I have no problem that it is removed from petrol. Ethanol is a waste as an additive in petrol.
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No, I meant precisely what I wrote.
This was fully covered in “The Greenhoax Effect” first published in January 1990.
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How much water can e10 hold?
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None – the ethanol is “dissolved” in the petrol and there is no capacity for it to bind water.
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You can knock ethanol out of E10 by adding water and decanting.
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Oh dear Gee Aye. Try not to comment on things you know nothing about.
Co-solvents (like ethanol) are used to dissolve water into solvents.
Many uses. Scratch Chemistry from your list of understanding.
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“Try not to comment on things you know nothing about.”
We would never hear from them/they again !!
Which isn’t really much of an issue.
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I repeat: my comment had nothing to with ethanol.
it should be blindingly obvious to anybody with a functioning brain that it is cheaper and easier to grow say wheat, than to produce a similar amount of crickets, or any other insect. for a start what are you going to feed the little buggers? Wheat?
I only mentioned unleaded petrol as an example of the powers that be using disinformation as a way of conning people into something they might otherwise not accept, like bugs in their flour. I could have just as easily used the current misused terms “gluten free” and “CFC free” plastered on all sorts of products that never contained gluten or CFC in the first place.
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I do not agree with governments forcing people to eat bugs.
However, keep in mind that in some Asian countries, eating bugs is not unheard of. For example in Korea, the silkworm is a common street food. Supermarkets sell these worms in a can. In some bars, you can order it as “anju” (side dish while drinking).
I tried to eat this worm. It is not my favorite snack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi
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Yep, and fits the fundamental narrative …
Everything Western bad.
The cultural, and diet, of Western Modernity bad.
And caused Climate Change and R@ciszm.
Punctuality bad.
Eating meat is the very essence of Wh!tenezz.
America the worst.
Almost all my liberal friends think we should be more like Europe … or Australia.
(But reading an Australian blog has cured me of that!)
🙂
Kidding, love you guys.
As long as you keep the poisonous critters on your continent.
I might be concerned about eating Australian bugs.
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Crickets and mealworms are riddled with parasites.
Cook ’em well!
A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals
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Best not to eat ’em at all.
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Wild ones are. It is easy enough to have stock without them and has been done routinely and simply in labs for decades.
The processing would remove anything living parasites in the colony. Removal of parasites would increase productivity and remove the risk of stock collapse, so there is a strong motivation to have none.
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You really love your insects, don’t you GA. !
Bon Appétit !
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Expect to be “softened up” for this new “food” by:
– Promotion and consumption in schools. (Already done in Australia.)
– Sale of product in supermarkets. (Already done in Australia.)
– Its portrayal in TV travel shows showing consumption in Third World countries. (Already done in Australia.)
– Its use in cooking shows. (Not aware its been done yet.)
– Insertion of the idea of insect consumption for Westerners to be “normal” into movies and TV shows. (I’m not aware that that’s been done yet, I expect it will be the next move.)
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IIRC, Paul Hogan ate witchetty grubs in one of his films.
And there was the scene from ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ where they were fed live big bugs… (again, IIRC)
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Indeed. By sneaking it in to party food nibbles / chips and junk food they can overcome the reluctance to try.
No one at a party is reading the ingredients list on a packet someone tossed in the bin. I expect people will end up eating it without realizing it. They would only find out later, and by then it’s normalized…
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“and by then it’s normalized…”
or, like a certain jab… too late.
Insects are, of course, safe and effective.
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“No one at a party is reading the ingredients list on a packet someone tossed in the bin.” – Jo
I’m the one who does read ‘em,…well, used to. I’ve given up because they nearly all contain oils I can’t eat, …and I’ve discovered that humans can actually survive w/o junk food! Who knew? So no longer any need to.
But if they aren’t on the ingredients list, reading it wouldn’t help much,
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Hmmm, and the Martians are reading all these comments thinking, this is what Modern Earthman’s civilised democracy is all about ….
Pass-by Next stop.
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I’d be more concerned about who are what stumbles upon Voyager.
It has a drawing of two plump naked binary humans.
With a map.
‘This way to the protein.’
It’s amazing how all the people working in Science appear to have no knowledge of Science Fiction.
“Let’s alter viruses in a lab, what could go wrong?”
Now we have ‘Directed Evolution”.
Can’t think of worse bunch of Directors.
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Seems a rather simple way of stopping an alien invasion ! 😉
Just put leftists in charge of the planet…
Aliens would be too scared they might catch some of the “idiocy” viruses.
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Not trying to make waves here, however, going bacterian is the way to go. Vegetarian, Paleo, Vaguean, and all the others are useles and require additional supplements in order to be successful even remotely in the long term.
A bacterian diet composed of bacteria and substrate for the bacteria to thrive is all that is required for stunning health somewhat akin to how our ancestors prepared food to survive. Almost all the staple foods were first fermented and there was little choice in the matter considering for instance that there were no refrigerators.
A good bacterian food source i employ almost every day is nattokinase which is created by bacteria called Bacillus Subtilis. Easy to make especially following the Korean method of fermenting beans to make extra strong soy bean paste.
Anyway….don’t get me started on the poorly nutritional advantages of various potential substrate food sources that have not been acted upon by bacteria to create living food without anything missing.
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“going bacterian is the way to go”
I’m sure I had that menu once at a certain unnamed restaurant.
Myself and several others nearly ended up in hospital !
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Thankyou b.nice.
And this might be relevant using a link from:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/dysbiosis
Some of the very valuable history about bacteria this time about B Subtilis is that this bacteria of ‘bacillus’ form or ‘rod like’ is responcible for the first and subsequent discovery of one of the first the first antibiotic or, ‘Bacitracin’ as it is also referred to at times as far as i know, which is open to discussion.
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It was once said, behind every good bacteria, there is a good substrate 🙂
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Natto is a good food. This is my source website.
https://www.nyrture.com/blog/natto-and-immunity
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OT… or is it just part of the whole greenie woke facade ?
Wind turbines collapsing!
https://climatechangedispatch.com/ginormous-wind-turbines-are-toppling-like-dominos-in-spate-of-incidents/#comments
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We know a vegetarian who chose to be so, strictly, 62 years ago, long before it became trendy. If, by accident, animal food passes the lips, rejection is prompt.
We have no idea how food makers intend to overcome this type of reaction among the populace. Maybe, if we asked them, they might reply, but we think the likely response would be … crickets. Geoff S
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Never mind cow farts.
“It is estimated that termites, globally, are responsible for about one to three per cent of all methane emissions.”
I wonder about other insects, like, er, say, er, crickets?
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A mantra for the 21st Century:
I suspect that merely saying or posting this online will soon be a reportable offense in the ‘legal but harmful’ category requiring a visit from the Stasi to protect the public from thought crime.
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I read somewhere the keratin stops you from going to the toilet.
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It’s a bugs life
‘Madam, would you like some spotted ants to go with your sticky snail pudding dear?’
In my view we’ve been brainwashed.
The Enviro Mental World has gone mad.
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Dear Joanne,
At my age (81 last week) I have probably seen it all.
I fondly recall my journeys around your beautiful coastal cities 60 odd years ago as a Merchant Navy Radio Officer on tramp steamers.
Our diet then consisted of a lot of unwelcome protein in the form of cock roach and weevel infested flour and other non perishable foodstuffs.
The general rule of thumb in those days was you could eat it once it stopped crawling.
So whats the beef? Sorry no more beef, but what are those green tree hugging veggies going to do?
Are mealy bugs and locusts not animals?
In any case the wandering Jews and John the Baptist eat locusts (crickets) many moons ago and survied.
God bless Australia.
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The “locust” you refer to is probably the carob locust tree.
https://www.gardeningchores.com/locust-trees/
That said, a few varieties of locusts are permitted, with all other insects being prohibited (unless death is the alternative). I don’t know which locusts are permitted, and wouldn’t try one even if I did.
My dad was a Marine at Guadalcanal. When the Japanese counter attacked by sea, all they had to eat were coconuts and bug infested captured rice. He said if you picked put the bugs, there was no rice left. But I never once saw him eat a bug of his own volition.
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My first thought is people have to get used to eating insects before the crazies can really attack agriculture and animal farming in a big way. One would therefore presume there are more attacks coming against agriculture. The Methane theory is just a useful tool for what is to come. We have already seen an extension with the attacks coming against the use of artificial nitrogenous fertilizers on spurious grounds. The truth is, these fertilisers are fossil fuel products and are essential to feeding a world of 8billion and rising. That essential nature would stop the destruction of ff based energy systems and if that happens, the West stays strong.
It is apparent these crazies/ not-so-crazy-but-ideologically driven-mercenaries have a lot more ambitions than just destroying the West by proscribing fossil fuels. All else fails, they aim to starve us into submission. The West currently has substandard short term individuals controlling governments. They simply seek guaranteeing their own futures for the power. They need votes and harvest them with great avidity. The welfare of the people is placed a very long way behind obedience to the international organisations that seek to control us by destroying the basic essentials for our successes. Our businesses are already falling into line eg the sports and China seems to have control of much of the UN and EU politics and our current government fawns over it.
Loss of life is regarded as a tolerable side effect. We’ve seen this with COVID-19, along with the outrageous police attacks on any person or group defying the current ‘truths’. Marxist societies are tolerated totally – either because they are marxist, or are countries where life is so hard the people see through and ignore cr.p when its presented and will not succumb to extremist demands, because they can’t afford to.
Westerners have had it too easy, relatively, due to the advancements gained from what were previously open societies with good education systems. We have been ‘progressively’ dumbed down so much, carry instilled heavy moral burdens that have us jumping to obey the propaganda that ‘we are destroying the planet’. The left extreme is very efficient at propaganda presentations.’We should depart the planet early so it can return to its pristine state before any life existed on it at all’. But the real aim is to control the West when all other forms of attack have failed. imo
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It doesn’t need to have specific labeling because….” if it were on the label, most people would probably not be stupid enough to purchase it.
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