Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Sept 7, 2024
Sometimes it feels like writing for OffG has fallen into a recognizable pattern the last two years, one that could be best summed up “as ignoring the (mostly) fake stuff on the front pages and collating the real stuff on the back”.
Regular reminders that no matter who you vote for, or which side wins what war, the overarching agenda is still out there, eating and growing. Like the Blob or the Thing.
Censorship? We all know that’s on the elite’s shopping list.
Digital currencies? They’re still going.
Digital ID? Absolutely on the cards.
And we’ll be returning to talk about all of them no doubt until they eats any more or we’re finally shut down (whichever happens first)
But today we’re talking about eating the bugs.
Not just the bugs though – goo too.
Everything in fact that academics and journalists have decided to group under the umbrella term “alternative protein” in headlines like this one, from Sky News:
Are alternative proteins going mainstream? This multimillion pound new project hopes so
This story is in response to the launch of the UK’s new National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC), a £38million research project co-founded with Imperial College London (of Covid modelling fame).
Professor Karen Polizzi of Imperial’s brand new “Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein” (yes, that Bezos) described the new initiative thus:
Transitioning to healthy, sustainable sources of protein is a pressing global challenge. The National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre will help facilitate this transition by supporting researchers and industry in all parts of the process from product design through to consumer acceptance. At Imperial, we will focus on developing economical, sustainable processes for producing newly discovered alternative proteins on a large scale.”
The “alternative proteins” that are the focus of this research being…
edible proteins that are derived from sources other than animal agriculture: from plants such as cereals, legumes, tubers and nuts; fungi such as mushrooms; algae such as seaweed; insects; proteins derived via lab-grown microbial cells or fermentation; and lab-grown meat
Like I said: bugs and goo – oh and some plants too.
What exactly is the appeal of the bugs and the goo (and plants) as far as the overlords go?
That’s a complex question, with a multi-faceted answer.
Part of me thinks they just like to see ordinary people humiliate themselves in the “I think we could get them to brush their tongues” model. But that’s just a theory, we can expound upon it another time.
Outside of sadism and other psycho-social motivations there are practical questions of profit and control. As we covered in our recent piece on gene-edited food, intellectual property laws play a role.
An egg is an egg. Beef is beef. You can’t patent a cow or a chicken, and it’s quite difficult to prevent people keeping their own animals.
But when your product is a few thousand freeze-dried crickets ground into a powder (including their eyes, intestines and faeces), mixed with chemical preservatives, thickeners and artificial flavourings to mimic real meat…
well, you can patent the hell out of that.
That’s part of the reason the edible insect market is expected to grow to ten times its current size in the next decade.
In one of those ever-so-timely coincidences, the announcement of the new research project has just so happened to accompany a full-court press on “alternative protein” propaganda.
Last week The Guardian ran a glossy interview with the CEO of Meatly, the lab grown meat company, where he claimed “Cultivated meat is safer, kinder, more sustainable”
The very next day The Guardian (again) reported on a “new study” that (shockingly) found “Plant-based meat alternatives are eco-friendlier and mostly healthier”.
Four days ago, another new study found proteins extracted from peanut shells could be used to supplement animal proteins.
Good Food Magazine thinks eating mealworms can cure diabetes. Medical journals are publishing pieces “investigating the health benefits of alternative proteins”
MSN is reposting articles from the Metro headlining: “Lab-grown meat is coming. Here’s why you might have no choice but to eat it”
Yahoo Finance tells us “Why Lab-grown meat is a win for the UK’s investment industry”
And it’s not just the UK. Obviously. It never is, just like prices don’t change at just one Walmart and the menu doesn’t change at just one MacDonald’s. Because globalism is already a reality, and your “national government” is just a local branch of a multinational conglomerate.
In the US, the University of California is being pretty straightforward:
Good grub — why you should consider eating bugs
While Finland’s “Solein” company, which makes bacteria pancakes out of “air and sunlight”, has been “Generally Recognised as Safe” by the FDA (the next step, I suppose, would be being “generally recognised as food“).
Australia’s “next superfood” is Hoppa, a bag of powdered crickets. Next month, Melbourne will be playing host to AltProtein24, a conference for the promotion of “alternative proteins”.
Last week Singapore approved 16 different types of insects for human consumption. Singapore is also getting its own “Sustainable Protein Research Centre”, again funded by huge donations from Jeff Bezos.
The silver lining here is that, despite all these efforts, there’s a good possibility this will never work. Article after article highlights the problems of “consumer acceptance” or “public enthusiasm” or similar phrases meaning the same thing:
Most people don’t want to eat bugs.
Hence the propaganda, I suppose.
I want to close by pointing out the truly hilarious modern irony of the story.
The same outlets that are happily promoting the fact the elites want us to eat bugs and goo:
Are simultaneously calling it a crazy “conspiracy theory”:
We are quite literally in the age of doublethink.
But never mind, we’ll be OK as long as we keep refusing to eat ze bugs…or ze goo.
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When princess Diana decided to take her anti land mine campaign to Palestine
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Siana was warned her visit could cost her, her life.
It is known from Robin Cook, that Tony Blair spoke with Rothschild and they agreed she must be killed off.
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Tastes like chicken…
Wait a minutee, this is brilliant.
Currently the chickens eat the bugs and we eat the chickens.
This prposal means 1 whole layer of the food chain would be removed entirely think of the astronomical savings in cost of buildings, animal feed, processing, transport and a huge reduction in carrbon footprint and chicken farts!
Brilliant, its a bugs life!
Has the world run out of seaweed and mushrooms?
2 of the most nutritious foods that are easily grown and which produce rapid growth with minimal care.
yes ! they will mix in all arteficial food GOO !
GRAVENOXYD ! there are fantastic videos in
internet of magnetic properties of GOO (G5) :
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
only stupids eat it !
More than sufficient protein in plants.
Here come the maggot graphic, but they always look like some kind of curly fries to me from this image…
Even at this late stage several years after eating insects was first mooted there have been no developments (thankfully!) in plans or planning permissions to get this whole new food industry off the ground. No TV chefs trying out how best to cook them and sell the recipe books; no news on whether we eat the grub or larva or the adult; if we buy them live how do we kill them etc etc. This industry is just not happening.
They’re going to starve us and laugh at us as they ask would we like to eat those insects now? I think at least if we do get that hungry we can try to hunt and kill them, feed them to the dogs, then eat the dogs.
This is the sort of article that’s ideal for the ‘consumer’…the type of character that can’t think past the shelves in big box stores… and whines that they or them are doing such and such…to them..
It’s really a matter of psychology, as well the hollow men and their cof cof..media mouthpieces are aware…
You see, the majority of imbeciles have long tucked into big agri’s super-market slop and mass slaughter and are wont to complain when some bald git, grifting for billionaires tells them all to eat cockroaches ‘cos it’s cheap… or burgers made out of cervical cancer cells, because of course that’s what hehe ”’lab grown meat” is made form…
Indeed, it’s a hard sell and unlikely to catch on… but that’s not really the plan is it?…the plan of course is to reduce your calorific intake… by restricting access to protein..
because starving people are both stupider and of course more amenable to what you have planned for them… which is ultimately to be rid of a large proportion, bugs and cancer burgers merely a diversion.. that’s what they mean by ‘carbon neutral’ and eventually zero carbon…
@ cornelius copeman kings lynn
I’m surprised Carl Jones didn’t send out his goon squad of Nazi hunters after Harry.
cornelius
‘princess diane’ = wog lover
most white women are scum
It is a Race problem–Orientals and Africans are more willing to eat arthropods, and may be better equipped to do so, and the JWO has no place for Caucasians, only we have a place for us. When I tried to disgust an African nurse about chonk eating live scorpions as a snack, she muttered the word “nutritious”
they say the insects will taste like meat
hey carl jones what does black mans cock taste like ?
Can’t we eat the Jews instead? Or at least feed them to our pigs to aid and increase pork production? Seems like a win-win, wot?