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[P:axMagellanic]

Demoralisation for the masses.

Heading back to a feudal mindset, the lordly 1 percenters get all the good forest game (vert and venison as the Norman's put it) whilst the rest of us have to endure a shit existence of no travel, no freedoms, energy blackouts and shit produce.

 

[Nikodemos]

I'm sure I saw last year that Kenyan mealworms eat plastic. Grow them for that instead please.

That's the trick. They feed the mealworms polystyrene and waste paper (mixed in with regular feed), to keep production costs low. Then they sell the fattened mealworms to food companies, for conversion into wormflour.

 

[Lunarorbit]

All I'm saying is people you should really start sourcing from your local farmers as much as possible.

I buy half a pig and quarter cow and it's enough food for nearly a year for around 700 bucks this shit is horrid.

This is excellent advice. Lots of cities have food sharing(?) programs. That's not the right phrase but you can get boxes delivered with fresh local fruit/veggies.

 

[Londo]

In the end It's only a matter of habit, like all of things.
I ate a slice of pie made with cricket flour or something (added to normal flour, of course) because I was curious, and I couldn't tell any difference.

Yes, the thought of eating a fully formed insect might be revolting but if it's pulverised I don't see any harm.

 

[Londo]

This is excellent advice. Lots of cities have food sharing(?) programs. That's not the right phrase but you can get boxes delivered with fresh local fruit/veggies.

Yes! I'm part of one of such groups and it's definitely cost saving. Not always you find all that you want but it's good when you can.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

UV treated powder.. lol!!

Meanwhile in Mexico.

Tasty street grasshoppers

I ate this

Mezcal worm​

 

[MMaRsu]

Gross. But yeah we already do eat some insects here and there

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I find it really weird how threatened some people are by this.

Some people eat nothing but plants all they have to do is read the label. Some people convinced that suddenly everything they eat is going to turn into the Naked Lunch.

 

[LordCBH]

Be a good peasant and eat the bugs so your masters can dine on steak.

 

[protonion]

May the approvers and their children eat worms until they die.

 

[YCoCg]

Oi do ya have a liocense for that worm m8

Beans, toast and now worms?

UK is truly hell.

We're not apart of the EU, Brexit means Brexit!

 

[mitch1971]

I really don't see the problem. Countries have been eating these pockets of protein for 100's of years. Those saying its wrong are obviously well fed and can get food readily.

 

[Liljagare]

People allready eat it, there are insect pieces in TONS of food, allowable to a certain degree.

Flour/bread/cereals contain alot of bugs. Sallads have them too.

Atleast with theese products, you know what you are eating.

I don't see much difference between protein powder and protein powder, and also, crawdads/lobsters/shrimp, people are ok with those. A tarantula when cooked taste about the same. Roasted honey bees are delicious. Tomato hornworms are a good snack too! A mixture of shellfish and, well, tomatoes.

 

[poppabk]

Be a good peasant and eat the bugs so your masters can dine on steak.

5 star Michelin restaurants have served bug based dishes - one apparently had live ants crawling on it.
The most extreme delicacy out there is eating a bird drowned in brandy. Bones, beak, feet and all.

 

[diffusionx]

You WILL live in the pod
You WILL eat the bugs
You WILL own nothing
You WILL be happy

The thing is, the people who want you to eat this stuff, they're not eating bugs. They're still gonna be eating beef and chicken. They just want YOU to eat bugs. It never ceases to amaze me how people will white knight for these elites who try and force this stuff on the masses.

See the menu at the COP26 Climate Change conference:

Cop26 organisers criticised for menu mostly made up of meat, fish and dairy

‘It’s the equivalent of serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference,’ one person says

www.independent.co.uk

At some point people have to start seeing this agenda for what it is.

 

[calistan]

5 star Michelin restaurants have served bug based dishes - one apparently had live ants crawling on it.
The most extreme delicacy out there is eating a bird drowned in brandy. Bones, beak, feet and all.

Ortolan. That's the thing you're meant to consume with a towel draped over your head and the dish, so nobody can see how revolting you are.

The French will eat anything that moves.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Sounds like cyberpunk. Scop is made of mealworms

 

[RCX]

Thanks but I'm happy with steak.

 

[YCoCg]

Thanks but I'm happy with steak.

Steak will only be for the rich, you're not Elon Musk or Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, each your bugs peasant!

 

[Liljagare]

If you are disgusted by this, you should also read about how many particles from insects are allowed in your food by your countries food administration.

I would be far more worried about the amount of puss particles allowed in milk, looking at it, the USA leads the score there.

Cows sometimes have infected things, that you suck the milk out of, in the USA, they allow a certain amount per gallon, and the milk is still OK. There is a limit of puss particles allowed in your milk.

In the EU, that is illegal.

Americans get to enjoy puss in their milk, one of the most basic of food items.

 

[thefool]

Readers added context:
Using "current prices" to make such interpretation is misleading, since the euro depreciated temporarily during that period. On a PPP basis EU GDP per capita was 67.5% of US GDP per capita in 2010, by 2021 that had actually grown to 69.8%.

I mean there’s a reason why the euro depreciated.

 

[YCoCg]

Americans get to enjoy puss in their milk, one of the most basic of food items.

The puss in American milk makes their immune system stronger! Check out raw milk, it was all the rage a while back before people got sick for unrelated reasons.

 

[ReBurn]

My chickens love dried mealworms. When I get home from work they run to greet me so I'll give them some, so I keep some in my truck. They smell like toast.

 

[SirKicksalot]

I bet it tastes better than pea protein. Pea protein powder is revolting.

 

[kevboard]

Cows sometimes have infected things, that you suck the milk out of, in the USA, they allow a certain amount per gallon, and the milk is still OK. There is a limit of puss particles allowed in your milk.

In the EU, that is illegal.

Americans get to enjoy puss in their milk, one of the most basic of food items.

 

[Nikodemos]

I bet it tastes better than pea protein. Pea protein powder is revolting.

I tried some dried mealworms once (for human consumption, not pet food grade). They tasted like corn puffs (likely because they were raised on cornmeal).

Though, I have no idea what the ones they intend to raise on shredded styrofoam boxes and cardboards scraps would taste like.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I'd eat food that was made out of insect flour. As long as it's safe/beneficial, who gives a ****?

 

[Zathalus]

I mean there’s a reason why the euro depreciated.

Two wars started by Russia and Europe loosing all access to Russian gas and Oil?

 

[thefool]

Two wars started by Russia and Europe loosing all access to Russian gas and Oil?

No, not really. You could have easily googled, duckgogo, chatgpt, claude, perplexity or even deepseeked your own (wrong) assumption to check what happened to the euro/usd parity since 2008 and how consistent is the depreciation:

What actually happened is our economy went to shit, productivity cratered, we've became highly dependent of china goods and imported unskilled labor that has eroded our social nets and lowered wages. It's almost unbelievable how successful the united states was against us in the last 20 years.

PPP does not pay for raw materials and energy that the EU so very much needs from the US. It's our weak euro vs their strong dollar.

I recommend reading the Draghi report that does a good job highlighting how dogshit our economy was in the last few years

The Draghi report on EU competitiveness

Read Mario Draghi's report on the future of European competitiveness, which lays out clear recommendations on how Europe can boost its economic growth.

commission.europa.eu

 

[Zathalus]

No, not really. You could have easily googled, duckgogo, chatgpt, claude, perplexity or even deepseeked your own (wrong) assumption to check what happened to the euro/usd parity since 2008 and how consistent is the depreciation:

I did, everyone says the war in Ukraine, rising tensions with Russia, and the stopping of gas has had a negative impact on the Euro and the GDP of the Eurozone these past few years. Going back further it’s obviously not the factor, that was the impact felt from the Euro debt crisis for example.

 

[CokeDiet]

You guys have never ate the worm in a bottle of Mezcal?

 

[dave_d]

Ortolan. That's the thing you're meant to consume with a towel draped over your head and the dish, so nobody can see how revolting you are.

The French will eat anything that moves.

In that regard, squab is a fancy French restaurant way of serving you a pigeon.

 

[diffusionx]

In that regard, squab is a fancy French restaurant way of serving you a pigeon.

This trickled down into English after the Norman conquest, where the elite French-speaking upper class ate food like beef, pork, and mutton, while the lower class English ate stuff like chicken and turkey. Hence why we have some food named after the animal and some not.

 

[calistan]

In that regard, squab is a fancy French restaurant way of serving you a pigeon.

I've always thought the absolute worst thing to be reincarnated as would be a bird whose migratory path crosses France.

In England we feed them and take photos. In France it's mist nets and shotguns - open season!

 

[Nikodemos]

Thing is, you're not supposed to eat adult pigeons, since their muscles harden from flight exercise.

The ones to eat are older fledglings just before they start trying to take off.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

2025...

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Lol even the soil we can buy to make "organic" veggies etc isn't pure. Deduction = hellish

 

[kevboard]

2025...

we can only hope