{"id":292803,"date":"2024-08-12T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T07:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292803"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T08:03:26","slug":"eating-ze-bugs-is-vegan-what-the-rise-of-ento-veganism-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292803","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEating Ze Bugs is Vegan\u201d \u2013 What the rise of \u201cento-veganism\u201d REALLY means"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Aug 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The latest <em>\u201cDude, eating insects is so hip and cool\u201d <\/em>article dropped this week, this time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dumptheguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/the-rise-of-ento-veganism-how-eating-crickets-could-help-save-the-world\">from The Guardian<\/a>, and with a little twist thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pushing the idea of \u201cento-veganism\u201d, that is to say \u201cvegans\u201d who won\u2019t eat animals\u2026except insects.<\/p>\n<p>Or, what we used to call <em>non<\/em>-vegans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just another step in the redefining of language as needs must, yet another front in the war on words.<\/p>\n<p>They are shifting the meaning of veganism from saving animals to being \u201csustainable\u201d. The philosophy of \u201cento-veganism\u201d is apparently to <a href=\"https:\/\/entovegan.com\/entovegan-philosophy\/\"><em>\u201cdo the least harm possible\u201d<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026except to crickets, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The greater point here is that, while the mainstream has been promoting veganism for years, that\u2019s much more about <em>stopping people from eating meat and dairy<\/em> than it is about getting people to eat vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>After all, a vegan could hypothetically be living on a small holding in the middle of nowhere and surviving entirely on their home-grown vegetables\u2026and that\u2019s the last thing the WEF-types want.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not going to all the trouble of resetting society so we can eat organic cauliflower.<\/p>\n<p>They want everyone eating GMO soy cubes dusted in cricket flour. They want <em>processed<\/em>. They want <em>artificial<\/em>. Most importantly, they want to make it so no one can <em>ever<\/em> be self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>And while that means promoting veganism <em>for now<\/em>, it also means slowly redefining what \u201cveganism\u201d actually means.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, eating lab-grown meat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/lab-grown-meat-vegan-ethics-environment\/\">became \u201cvegan\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lab-grown-meat-is-vegan-wired-2023-800x325-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-292804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lab-grown-meat-is-vegan-wired-2023-800x325-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"260\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lab-grown-meat-is-vegan-wired-2023-800x325-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lab-grown-meat-is-vegan-wired-2023-800x325-1-480x195.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which, technically, you can argue from an ethical point of view.<\/p>\n<p>But then this year, eating crickets is \u201cvegan\u201d too.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what \u201cvegan\u201d will mean next year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2024\/08\/11\/eating-ze-bugs-is-vegan-what-the-rise-ento-veganism-really-means\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How eating insects has now become \u2018vegan\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":292805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292807,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292803\/revisions\/292807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}