16 May
2013
16 May
'13
9:44 a.m.
Why not eat pork?
If you're Jewish or Muslim, "how silly it is to hold cultural and
regional taboos surrounding food sources," right?
So let's use economic coercion to force Jews & Muslims to eat pork, Jews
to eat shellfish, Hindus to eat beef, British to drink ice-cold beer,
French to eat Big Macs, Africans to eat fish, and Americans to eat fried
caterpillars not to mention their dogs and cats they can't afford to
keep any longer. Override all those local cultures for the sake of
global capitalism and call it "adventurous" or "an exotic eating
experience."
Some clever capitalists in China have even figured out how to market rat
as lamb, per another story on the Beeb this week. What's wrong with
eating rat, if it makes money for someone who lives like a king?
For that matter, why not eat humans? Sheesh!, look at all the corpses
going to waste! Turn them into Soylent Green! Cannibalism? Just
another "cultural and regional taboo," that's all.
Right. Meanwhile the Oligarchy is licking their chops and sitting down
to steak dinners, and laughing all the way to the bank. Because as far
as the Oligarchy are concerned, what you want, and what you like, don't
matter. The only thing that matters to the Oligarchy is what they want,
and what they like, and your assigned role is to bend over and get
"porked," one way, or the other.
-G.
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On 13-05-16-Thu 9:14 AM, Raymond Lai wrote:
Why not eat bugs?
In Calvin Schwabe's (the father of veterinary epidemiology) book
"Unmentionable Cuisine" he suggests in light of the world's food
shortages, how silly it is to hold cultural and regional taboos
surrounding food sources. "Unmentionable Cuisine" is thus a compendium
of recipes considered taboo by one culture or another. Yes! bug
recipes abound. So do dog, cat, and (my personal favorite) fish sperm.
It's a fascinating read.
Here's M.F.K. Fisher's review of the book
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1980/dec/18/yuk/?pagination=false>.
And she is definitely a person who has had her share of adventurous eats.
ray
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl(a)gmail.com
<mailto:steveberl@gmail.com>> wrote:
Personally I don't see that much difference between eating a
shrimp and eating a cricket.
Steve
On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Romy Ilano wrote:
Investors in veggie meat are not altruistic angels anymore.
It's drawing plenty of main stream interest
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
On May 15, 2013, at 17:31, GtwoG PublicOhOne
<g2g-public01(a)att.net> wrote:
For the second day in a row, the BBC runs an article
promoting the
virtues of eating bugs, this time on their Travel
blog:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130513-is-crawly-cuisine-the-future
Pictured is a handful of moth larvae grubs found in
Australia: plump
translucent white squirmy things that look like
hairless
caterpillars or
overgrown maggots. The caption says that they are
"...said
to have a
crispy skin with a yellow 'eggy' centre
when roasted."
Mmm-mmm-good, right?
The article goes on to say, "According to the UN report,
'consumer
disgust' remains a large barrier in many
Western countries
-- but for
some two billion people across the world, eating
insects is
really no
big deal."
Unsaid: five billion people in the world right now don't eat
bugs.
Though, the Beeb does get credit for mentioning
"consumer
disgust," also
known as the vomit-reflex, even if only as a
"barrier," with the
implication that it's something to be overcome, like the
desire for
freedom & privacy.
As I mentioned yesterday, there are plenty of other
solutions to feeding
a world that's overpopulated by a factor of
two and
overconsuming beyond
any sustainable limit. One of them is
veggie-meat: vegetable
matter
that's cooked up to be almost identical to
the meat we
already eat.
For this we turn to another regular source of Dystopian
News, namely
Wired magazine. Yes, "real geeks don't
read Wired," but Wired is
actually a good place to keep your finger on the pulse of
the corporate
oligarchy and the promoters of the
computer-as-God religion.
Occasionally they run something that's actually good news,
such as
the
following:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/future-meat/
Beyond Meat is a new company that produces veggie-meat
that's a
drop-in
replacement for chicken in many recipes. They
share the
market with
other companies such as Tofurkey and Boca
Burgers. At
present most of
these products are found in the Vegan aisle in
supermarkets,
but the
goal of these companies is to put them right next
to the
meat products
in the meat section.
Veggie-meat tastes good and has great potential to stretch
the
world's
food supply. Unlike the moth grubs pictured in
the Beeb
article, it's
something you'd choose to eat and enjoy
eating.
So far the oligarchy is ignoring veggie-meat. Funding for
veggie-meat
companies typically comes from "angel
investors" who
consider themselves
rebels and often have altruistic motives
alongside the
profit motive.
The oligarchy's mission, should you choose to acquiesce, is
to make
you
submit. Eating bugs is not about preventing
hunger, it's
about cultural
shock & awe: getting you to do something that
grosses you
out and makes
you want to throw up, the easier to get you to
submit to other
depredations over time.
But as Beyond Meat shows, you don't have to submit, as long
as
you're
willing to think for yourself, and exercise your
own free will.
-G.
=====
On 13-05-14-Tue 12:07 AM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
>
> YOs-
>
> The oligarchy has its own vision of the World of Tomorrow,
and the
world
> they're preparing for us to live in
whether we like it or
not. I'll be
> writing occasional pieces about items in the
news, to point
out what's
> behind the chirpy spin. This is the first of
many. Fasten
your seat
> belts and keep a barf bag handy.
>
> -G.
>
>
> Let Them Eat Bugs.
>
> The United Nations today released a report that touted the
benefits
of
> eating insects as a solution to world
hunger.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22508439
>
> Hint: it's not really about hunger, it's about making you sub
--
-steve
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