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My son's school science project is to design a food product, explaining what problem the product solves. This is what he ended up writing:

This food will eliminate the problem of mass consumption, as it is really small and is made from insects like spiders and cockroaches. Insects can be mass-produced and can be made into food by squashing them, filling tubes with them, and making insect nuggets! Insect nuggets are nuggets that look like chicken nuggets, but are made from insects, like cockroaches.

I'm pretty sure he read about that concept in one of the reading assignments they gave out.

This is the early warning. They are brainwashing our children to eat ze bugs.

120 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 8 Apr

Unpopular opinion: I see no problem with eating bugs. If my sources are correct, lobsters used to be considered trash food, even “cockroaches of the sea.” Now they’re a delicacy.

What’s the argument against eating bugs except “people I don’t like support it”?

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Probably because insect-food will be heavily processed (with all the downsides that brings) whereas things like grass-fed cow is more organic.

So the parasites (food and pharma industrial complex) want plebs too eat ze bugs while only the wealthy can afford ze real superfoods.

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For me, part of the negative perception is that it feels like it's being pushed by a political organization, based on faulty premises, rather than growing naturally out of consumer preferences.

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I see no problem with people choosing to do it...

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vill viiiiillingly eat ze bugs!!

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Homeschooling is the best way. This is one of the many the WHYs?

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205 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 8 Apr

I try not to be that guy but this goes way back. More than 10 years. Long before we heard about the WEF.

Today many more people are aware of this op but what is the next op? By the time the WEF is talking about it, it's been in play for a long time.

The thing is, people don't want bugs. But, if they can't afford meat they will have little choice. If all the ranchers have to export their meat to stay profitable many people will live on these protein alternatives. Buy local meat. Shake your rancher's hand. Especially sustainable ranchers and farmers.

I have a friend that has little choice but to sell his farm. Multiple generations of his family owned it. They tried to go regenerative but have had too many years of loss.

And "sustainable" isn't a dirty word. Nor is regenerative farming. The big agro-business lobby doesn't not care about families and communities in America. They use the state to support their rigged markets. They will sell quality meat to the elites around the globe and we will get the scraps at best.

It doesn't have to be this way. Bitcoin is a part of the solution but so is building local economic relationships with food producers.

Its easy to just think voting for the Orange man will fix things. What actually matters is what each person does. Their habits and preferences exhibited by their actions.

That's how we stop the bug diet. We refuse to support the systems that are creating this world the WEF wants. This is a lot of words to say what we do is what matters more than what the school says.

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Sad about your friend. What pressures ultimately drove him out of the business?

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Running at a loss for too many seasons. He told me a week ago he's deciding to sell.

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I try not to be the guy

civilization takes lots of help from lots of guys just like you.

its good to be the guy.

I saw a kid littering the other day and asked him why he did it. his mother wound up picking the candy wrapper he dropped.

its gonna get worse before it gets better, but we have to do the work now or all will be lost

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142 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 8 Apr

I wonder what you son thinks of the idea of actually eating a cockroach nugget?

I think my boys would find it gross, but maybe so gross that they'd think it was funny and be interested in it.

Personally, I'm not so sure that a cockroach nugget is worse than a "chicken" nugget...but this is because I have a very low opinion of nuggies.

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I'm pretty sure it's the gross-out factor that made him choose this. He's closer to Bart Simpson than Greta Thunberg.

You can also kinda tell where his mind's at because his last sentence in the product description was, "Only, the people will not know that they are eating insects like house flies and cockroaches." And the product slogan is "Safe Food 4 All"

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Does it “eliminate the problem of mass consumption” because nobody wants to eat it?

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I'm kinda miffed that he's already being taught that "mass consumption" is a "problem" that needs to be "solved"

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I can see that, but I also try to find ways to spin these things when possible.

I'm sure there's a definition of "mass consumption" that you'd acknowledge is a problem of some sort...perhaps just not one to be solved by eating cockroaches.

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Haha, when he's older I may try to explain it more. For this one, I think he just chose it because he thinks it's funny and gross. #1467281

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Funny, that 'they are brainwashing us to eat ze bugs' crowd usually have no problems eating shrimps or lobsters, which are basically aquatic bugs (they are arthropods) LOL.

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