16 May
2013
16 May
'13
8:59 a.m.
Neither do I (see much difference between shrimp and crickets), and
shrimp gross me out too. But if you like shrimp, or crickets, you're
welcome to eat them, of your own free will. A little over 1/4 of the
people in the world eat bugs right now, and they're welcome to keep
doing so if they choose.
What I'm objecting to is the apparent public relations campaign to
attempt to convince people to eat bugs, not for their own good, not for
the good of hungry people elsewhere, but for the good of the Oligarchy.
If you consider bugs to be Dirt, as Muslims and Jews consider pork to be
Dirt, then you shouldn't be obligated to eat them. It's about the right
to not have your existing cultural ways (not to mention your
puke-reflex) overridden for someone else's financial gain.
As far as the Oligarchy is concerned, you are a machine that makes money
for them. No different to a piece of equipment in a factory, or a
tractor in a field. And as far as the Oligarchy is concerned, paying
you one cent more per hour than it takes to keep you alive-enough to
come in to work every day, is as wasteful as a poorly-tuned engine that
guzzles fuel.
So along comes a cheaper source of fuel: of course they'll want to put
that in their machines.
And along comes a cheaper source of protein: of course they'll want to
put that in their humans.
And they'll do what it takes to convince you to _like it_, including
imposing it by the coercive force of economics. How often do you hear
people say "I can't afford to eat XYZ (organically produced food)"...?
See how that works? It's already happening all around us:
Milk that's produced with RBST, meat that's saturated with antibiotics
to fatten it up faster (and leads to drug-resistant bacteria), factory
farmed in unsanitary conditions (we never had mass e-coli outbreaks when
I was a kid), gene-spliced vegetables that thrive on pesticides, even
soda that's not sweetened with sugar but with HFCS that causes obesity.
All of that crap is cheaper, and that's why it's on the menu for the
working masses.
Bugs come next. Mark my words. Unless we get cheap veggie-meat first.
Or unless we straight-up revolt against the Oligarchy.
-G.
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On 13-05-16-Thu 8:32 AM, Steve Berl 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 <javascript:;>
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.
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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