(Off-Guardian)—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 genetically modified 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 advertisement 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.

The following are 12 facts that prove that people all over the globe are already “eating the bugs” on a regular basis…

#1 According to the United Nations, there are over 2 billion people that eat insects as part of their normal diets right now…

More than 2 billion people worldwide consume insects regularly, according to the United Nations, which a decade ago began pushing pests as a sustainable super-protein for humans, pets, and livestock that can benefit the environment and create jobs in developing countries.

#2 A report that was recently published in a major scientific journal says that 2,205 different kinds of insects are now being consumed all over the globe…

A 2024 report titled “The global atlas of edible insects: analysis of diversity and commonality contributing to food systems and sustainability,” has identified 2205 species consumed across 128 countries. Published in the science journal Nature, it notes that Asia has the highest number of edible insects (932 species), followed by North America (mainly Mexico), and Africa. The countries with the highest consumption of insect are Mexico (452 species), Thailand (272 species), India (262 species), China (235 species), and Japan (123 species).

#3 According to CNN, Singapore has just approved 16 different types of edible insects “for sale and consumption”…

Singapore’s state food agency has approved 16 species of edible insects for sale and consumption in the country, according to a July 8 public circular addressed to food traders.

“With immediate effect, SFA will allow the import of insects and insect products belonging to species that have been assessed to be of low regulatory concern,” the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said in its release.

Insects approved by the SFA include locusts, grasshoppers, mealworms and several species of beetle. “These insects and insect products can be used for human consumption or as animal feed for food-producing animals,” SFA said, adding that insects could not be “harvested from the wild.”

#4 The largest insect farm in the entire world is located in France…

In Europe, France is the center of European insect farming for animal and plant feed; a biotechnology company, InnovaFeed owns the world’s largest insect farm at 55,000 sqm that produces 15,000 tons of protein a year.

#5 In April 2024, InnovaFeed opened an absolutely enormous “research and innovation center focused on insects” in Decatur, Illinois…

More recently, in April 2024, Innovafeed inaugurated its first research and innovation center focused on insects in North America: the NAIIC (North American Insect Innovation Center), with the presence of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.

#6 An app that allows Germans to scan food products at the grocery store indicates that a whole host of things that Germans regularly eat have bug parts in them…

A German app called Insekten Scanner scans the barcode of a food product to tell you whether it includes insect parts in the ingredients. The app, which was first developed in late 2023 and now has over 100,000 downloads, recently went viral on X after several viral posts caused outrage among Americans.

The account Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) posted a video on May 2 of a user in a German supermarket scanning items with the app, which they captioned “‘We will NOT eat the bugs’ has become reality.”

In the video, the user repeatedly receives the message “Insekten Gefunden” or “Insects Found.” Items include pudding cups, premade meals, and even chocolate candies. “Everything has bugs,” one user replied.

#7 The very first “insect restaurant” in the United Kingdom is getting a lot of attention for the very unique dishes that it is offering to customers…

Grub Kitchen in Wales, the United Kingdom’s first insect restaurant, focuses on sustainability and is the vision of chef Andy Holcroft. The menu ranges from minced insect Bolognese to mealworm hummus and mixed insect pakoras fried with vegetables and served with mango chutney. Grub Kitchen largely has good reviews on TripAdvisor, but one reviewer was sceptical of eating insects, writing: “If this is the future, kill me now.”

#8 There are numerous websites that now offer insect-based products to U.S. consumers.  One of those websites claims that “crickets contain 10 times more vitamin B12 than beef”…

Different types of insects contain different amounts of nutrients, but they tend to be dense in protein, iron and calcium among other nutrients.

MightyCricket, a US-based website that sells cricket powder, says crickets contain 10 times more vitamin B12 than beef.

#9 It is being reported that Thailand already has over 20,000 insect farms…

According to the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Thailand can produce over 7,000 tonnes of economic insects annually. Thailand has more than 20,000 insect farms, especially cricket farms, the office said.

#10 In one region of India, silkworms are so popular that they are “available at every market”…

Silkworms are considered a delicacy in some northeastern states of India. In Nagaland, a state on the Myanmar border, silkworms are available at every market. Known as “eri puka” in Nagamese, the silkworms are fried, tossed together with spices, vegetables and bamboo shoots. Crispy fried grasshopper is also a common snack in the state.

#11 Here in the United States, more than 2 million taxpayer dollars were spent to create “the Center for Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming”…

In 2021 the U.S. National Science Foundation awarded Texas A&M and two other universities a $2.2 million grant to establish the Center for Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming. Sixteen multinational companies, including Mars and Tyson Foods, also joined as member organizations.

#12 Insect protein has become a multi-billion dollar industry in North America, and it is being projected that it will experience tremendous growth during the years ahead…

The North American insect protein market was valued at nearly $48 billion in 2023, according to Data Bridge Market Research. It’s projected to reach over $274 billion by 2031.

Are you starting to get the picture?

It won’t be too long before bug parts are in most of our processed foods, and they aren’t even trying to hide what they have planned.  The following comes from a Bloomberg editorial entitled “You Will Eat Bugs — and Like It”…

Picture this: It’s the year 2093. Your great, great grandaughter is hosting a dinner party for her friends tonight in honor of the total solar eclipse. She starts on the bug board, taking care to assemble the tinned locusts. The hot honey hornets are next. After that, it’s the scorpion kimchi and the ant guacamole. Then she takes the baked casu martzu — a Sardinian cheese that contains live insect larvae — out of the oven and tops it with faux caviar. Wanting to keep dessert simple, she drone-ordered some Micolino’s ice cream. Guests can top it with cricket sprinkles if they want.

Of course this fictional scenario will never become reality.

No matter how many insect farms they set up, it will only make a very small dent in the nightmarish global famines that are coming.

Numerous long-term trends are combining to create a “perfect storm” for global food production that is unlike anything that has ever been witnessed in all of human history.

So they can keep trying to encourage everyone to eat bugs all they want, but in the end it really isn’t going to make much of a difference.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

(Mercola)—Mealworm meatballs, anyone? Or how about a salad with a side of crickets? With the recent changes transpiring in the food industry, it’s highly possible that these will be the food choices you’ll see on restaurant menus in the future.

In Singapore, the movement toward a more insect-inclusive diet is progressing rapidly. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) recently approved the import of insect and insect products for human consumption, set to take effect immediately.¹

SFA Approves 16 Insects for Human Consumption

Reports about Singapore planning to add more edible insects and insect products to their food supply actually made news in the last quarter of 2022. It was estimated that by the end of 2023, the SFA would give the green light for 16 types of insects to be approved for human consumption or to be used in animal feed.²

However, the approval was pushed back; it was only on July 8, 2024, when the agency finally gave the go-signal for these insects to be used as food. According to the SFA’s press release:³

“As the insect industry is nascent and insects are a new food item here, [the] SFA has developed the insect regulatory framework, which puts in place guidelines for insects to be approved as food.

With immediate effect, [the] SFA will allow the import of insects and insect products belonging to species that have been assessed to be of low regulatory concern.”

The 16 insect species included in the SFA’s list have different stages of growth — there are adult house crickets (Acheta domesticus) and grasshoppers (Oxya japonica), Superworm beetle mealworms (Zophobas atratus/Zophobas morio) and Whitegrub larvae (Protaetia brevitarsis), and Silk moth pupa and silkworm larvae (Bombyx mori).⁴

Various insect-containing products are also allowed. “Among the insect products that Singaporean authorities have said can be imported are: insect oil, uncooked pasta with insects as an added ingredient, chocolate and other confectionery containing no more than 20% insect, salted, brined, smoked and dried bee larva, marinated beetle grub, and silkworm pupa,” The Guardian reports.⁵

Local restaurants are gearing to accommodate these novel products, making notable changes to their menus to attract “more daring” customers. For example, the restaurant House of Seafood is planning a menu with at least 30 insect-infused dishes, which include silkworm- and crispy cricket-garnished sushi and salted egg crab with silkworms.⁶

Insects Are Touted To Be the ‘Future’ of Food

According to insect-as-food promoters, humans have a long history of eating insects, saying that it isn’t an entirely new concept. They also market it as a sign of innovation and “being hip;” they say that “if you think eating insects is gross, you may be in the cultural minority.”

However, insects are actually being used in some processed foods. In particular, cricket and mealworm flour are used not just in the U.S., but in many countries as well,⁷ although you couldn’t tell, as they are discreetly mentioned on product labels. For example, if you see “Acheta protein” or “Acheta powder” listed as an ingredient in any product, it means you’re eating cricket protein powder.⁸

A study reports⁹ that 2,205 species are being eaten worldwide, across 128 countries, mostly in Asia, Mexico and Africa. “In Thailand, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo and China hundreds of species of insect are consumed, with Brazil, Japan and Cameroon each eating 100 or more species,” according to The Guardian.¹⁰

In Canada and the U.S., the edible insect sector is also “rapidly expanding,” driven by consumer demand for sustainable food. According to a 2023 study¹¹ published in the Animal Frontiers journal:

“The [edible insect] sector is now gaining momentum with several primary insect producers across the continent and value chain partners downstream beginning to incorporate insects as a primary ingredient in their products. The number of active insect-based companies is hard to establish considering the high turnover of start-ups (opening and winding down).”

But while humans did historically eat insects, we mainly did so for survival or as a last-resort tactic — not as a delicacy. According to the Smithsonian,¹² military survival manuals recommend insects as a “perfect alternative” in the absence of other food options.

Would You Drink ‘Cockroach Milk’?

Another seemingly out-of-this world “innovation” involving the use of insects to replace traditional food is cockroach milk — and yes, it is exactly what it seems. As Times of India reported:

“[C]ockroach milk is a protein-rich substance female cockroaches use to feed their young. It has rich nutritional content which is extractable from only one type of cockroach — the Pacific beetle cockroach.”

Unlike other cockroach species that lay their eggs, the Pacific beetle cockroach (Diploptera punctata) gives birth to 50 or so live young. Before their birth, the young feed on a pale yellow, crystal-like “milk” from the mother’s uterus-like brood sac.¹³ The crystals have proteins, fats and sugars — they fit the requirements of a “complete food.” An article in Prevention calls it a “superfood trend nightmares are made of.”¹⁴

However, cockroach milk production is an “energy-intensive and time-consuming” process, as the crystals can only be harvested from the cockroach during a specific time in their lifespan (lactation). Plus, it takes a thousand cockroaches to make just 3.5 ounces of milk.¹⁵

Even so, similar insect-based products are being conducted in various countries. For example, a company called Gourmet Grubb in South Africa has a product called Entomilk that’s basically milk made from black soldier fly larvae.¹⁶

This lactose- and gluten-free “dairy alternative” is being used to make luxury ice cream — an ingenious way to manipulate consumers to accept insects as an ingredient of popular snacks. In a CNN article,¹⁷ Gourmet Grubb co-founder Leah Bessa says, “We were expecting a lot of push back, however people have been extremely open minded. Everybody loves ice cream.”

Insects Can Trigger Allergies in Sensitive Individuals

In his Substack page,¹⁸ Dr. Robert Malone highlights that despite its steady growth, the edible insect market is not being regulated in any systematic way. The Animal Frontiers study also mentions that consumers are not being properly informed about this emerging industry.¹⁹

This can be particularly troublesome especially for individuals with food sensitivities. Studies have found that in people with shellfish allergies, consuming insects may trigger the same allergic reactions.²⁰ The primary allergen is said to be a protein called tropomyosin, which is found in both shellfish and many insects, including crickets and grasshoppers.²¹

“The problem with the lack of regulatory controls on insect products is that they carry specific risks to the general population, particularly people with shellfish allergies. This has been known for years, but even now — a slew of peer-reviewed papers are being published about the dangers of insects being added to foods without proper labeling,” Dr. Malone says.

Adding Insects to Your Dinner Plate Is Part of the ‘Green Agenda’

So, despite these drawbacks, why is there a sudden, somewhat-insistent drive to encourage people to make the shift to insects? The answer is simple — they want to control you and every aspect of your life, including your food choices.

It’s apparent that the globalists are doing everything in their power to control the global food supply, and that includes promoting and normalizing gross food options. They use the narrative that doing so will help save the planet, as these novel foods are “a more sustainable source of protein.”

As The Guardian article mentions, “The farming of insects for human food and for animal feed has been promoted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] for their benefits as a sustainable form of protein.” Indeed, the FAO has been strongly recommending the use of insects as human food and animal feed since 2003. As their website states:²²

“Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins and amino acids for humans. Insects have a high food conversion rate, e.g. crickets need six times less feed than cattle, four times less than sheep, and twice less than pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount of protein.

Besides, they emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia than conventional livestock. Insects can be grown on organic waste. Therefore, insects are a potential source for conventional production (mini-livestock) of protein, either for direct human consumption, or indirectly in recomposed foods.”

While their campaign toward sustainability may sound admirable, it is important to realize that this “green agenda” they’re imposing is nothing but a ruse and scare tactic to bring people to the point of accepting living conditions that would otherwise be unacceptable. So even though the idea of eating insects for food may be repulsive, the globalists are intent on normalizing the behavior to suit their agenda — one that is based on cherry-picked flawed ideas.

Here’s one example — the globalists claim that nitrogen fertilizer is a pollutant that can only be reined in by eliminating farming. However, there are regenerative strategies that would automatically minimize the use of fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals. Without farmers, how do we eat? The globalists’ answer is insects, weeds and possibly, even your own flesh.

‘You Are What You Eat’ — Globalists Promote the Idea of Cannibalism

You read that last statement right. Apparently, in 2020 scientists came up with a grow-your-own-steak kit — and the main ingredient is human cells. Dubbed “Ouroboros Steak,” named for the snake that eats its own tail, the kit uses cells harvested from inside of a person’s cheek and then fed serum derived from expired, donated blood.²³ It’s like something straight out of a terrifying science fiction novel.

The project’s goal was to criticize the meat industry’s rising use of living cells from animals. However, it ended up sparking a heated debate about “bioethics and the pitfalls of artistic critique.”²⁴

“The designers hoped that shocking audiences with the suggestion would trigger an examination of environmental responsibility and the clean-meat industry, which has promoted itself as producing ‘kill-free’ food, although most companies heavily rely on fetal bovine serum harvested during the slaughter of pregnant cows for cell cultivation,” The New York Times reports.²⁵

Although you wouldn’t be seeing Ouroboros Steak in supermarkets anytime soon, synthetic meats have already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022.²⁶

Pretty soon, they’ll be making their way into your foods – even though they’re worse for the environment than livestock and will undoubtedly deteriorate human health to boot. You can read more about the pitfalls of synthetic meats in my article, “What They Don’t Want You to Know About Lab-Grown Meat.”

They’re Trying to Take Over Our Food Supply

It’s important to realize that both the edible insect movement and the synthetic meat market are based on a slew of false premises and assumptions. There’s a dark and more sinister agenda behind them, and it has nothing to do with saving the planet or improving human health. Instead, their goal is to eliminate traditional farming and make populations dependent on mass-produced, patented, ultraprocessed foods.

At the helm of all these absurd changes is the World Economic Forum, an unelected global think-tank. In May 2024, WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab announced he’ll be stepping down from his executive role in the organization after 50 years at its helm. Norwegian national Børge Brende is currently the President of WEF.²⁷ During their 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, which was held in China last June 2024, Schwab said in his opening remarks:

“We must embrace innovation and force the collaboration across sectors, regions, nations, and cultures to create the more peaceful, inclusive, sustainable and resilient future.”²⁸

It might seem like a harmless, even uplifting statement, but once you take a closer look, he uses the word “force” — implying that their “collaborators” have no choice but to bend to the WEF’s will. They’re clearly imposing strict authoritarian control, with little tolerance for dissent.

The global cabal is targeting our health, food security, independence and freedom. These elitists are intending to destroy them so that they can then “solve” the issue by rolling out a new food system, one that’s based on patented lab-grown synthetic and genetically engineered foods and massive insect farms.

Switching to bug-based and lab-grown diet is not the answer to food safety and security. Instead, there are other more viable options available to help address all our existing environmental concerns.

I believe that regenerative agriculture — which includes and, indeed, requires livestock — is the best solution to clean up the globe, as well as support human health and longevity. Hence, we must focus on building a decentralized system that connects communities with farmers who grow real food in sustainable ways and distribute that food locally.

• ^1, 3, 4 Singapore Food Agency, July 8, 2024
• ² Yahoo News, October 17, 2022
• ^5, 10 The Guardian, July 10, 2024
• ⁶ The Straits Times, July 9, 2024
• ^{7, 16, 18, 28} Substack, Who is Robert Malone, July 8, 2024
• ⁸ Yahoo Life, May 3, 2024
• ⁹ Sci Rep. 2024; 14: 5045
• ^11, 19 Anim Front. 2023 Aug; 13(4): 16–25. Commercial Concerns
• ¹² Smithsonian, Insects as Food for Humans
• ¹³ The Scientist, February 24, 2022
• ¹⁴ Prevention, May 29, 2018
• ¹⁵ The Reader, February 2, 2023
• ¹⁷ CNN, July 25, 2019
• ²⁰ Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, May 2021, 32(1)
• ²¹ Mol Nutr Food Res. 2020 Apr;64(8):e1900923
• ²² Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Insects for food and feed
• ²³ Dezeen, November 13, 2020
• ^24, 25 New York Times, Dec. 7, 2020
• ²⁶ Fox Business, June 21, 2023
• ²⁷ Yahoo! Finance May 21, 2024

Thousands of scientists across the globe have also joined The Dublin Declaration, a group stating that livestock farming is too important to society to “become the victim of zealotry.”  They say that many of the negative claims about meat in our diet are simply not true.

The Dublin Declaration group has published a statement allowing global signatories to join them in defending meat supported diets and contradicting common claims made by establishment institutions against livestock in agriculture. In particular, the scientists stress that meats provide vitamin B12 intake in human diets, play a major role in supplying retinol, omega-3 fatty acids and minerals such as iron and zinc, as well as important compounds for metabolism, such as taurine and creatine.  There is no vegan equivalent that fills these nutritional needs and a number of supplements are often required to keep them healthy.

Scientists note that only well resourced (wealthier) people have the means to abandon meat in their diets and consume vegetables and carbs alone.  In other words, veganism is a first world ideology that is impractical for the majority of the global population.  Even India, a developing nation often cited by anti-meat activists for its religious stance against killing animals, still has a 70% meat eating population.

Previous studies (such as the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factor Study, published in The Lancet in 2020) warning against the “dangers” of meat are also being debunked.  Dr Alice Stanton, of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, one of the authors of a review of anti-meat claims, notes:

“The peer-reviewed evidence published reaffirms that [the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Risk Factors Report] which claimed that consumption of even tiny amounts of red meat harms health is fatally scientifically flawed…In fact, removing fresh meat and dairy from diets would harm human health. Women, children, the elderly and low income would be particularly negatively impacted.”

The anti-meat movement most likely finds its roots in astroturf.  Pro-vegan research tends to be funded by globalist institutions like the UN and the WEF, which have made clear that they want meat to become a “rare treat” rather than a dietary staple.

This would be accomplished by a number of means, but a primary tool would be emissions taxation on farmers and agricultural products leading to artificially higher prices.  The UN hopes to ward much of the populace away from meat by making it unaffordable.  This is similar to the tactic they have recommended for pushing people away from “fossil fuels.”  If price is a problem and you still need protein, the globalists suggest fake meat (which is more expensive than real meat for now), or shifting to a third world diet and eating bugs instead.

The UN says its goal is to enforce a completely meat and dairy free human diet by 2050 in order to “fight climate change,” though they have been caught in the past greatly exaggerating how much livestock methane contributes to overall emissions. Even if you believe that there is a real climate crisis (despite there being no evidence to support the hype), there is still the fact that livestock emissions are a negligible portion of supposed “greenhouse gases.”  You wouldn’t be accomplishing anything to save the planet by becoming vegan.

When climate hysteria is not effective, the same groups try to frighten people away from meat using fraudulent health concerns.  We have seen this lately in the meat issue as well as with natural gas appliances.  Baseless health risk claims are promoted using the corporate media as an amplifier, and the evidence proving the claims wrong is never addressed.

Without regular access to meat vast numbers of people may be dependent on manufactured supplements to stay healthy.  Much of these supplements are produced in countries overseas that may become hostile and cut off exports. Not to mention, governments could also control the supplies for their own citizens as leverage.  The price factor for foods would make sustaining the current population untenable, leading to either mass starvation or deliberate population reduction.

Article cross-posted from Zero Hedge.

The plant-based meat industry is what it is; there are those who do not eat meat so there’s a natural market for them. But lab-grown meats and insects are being artificially inserted into society, not because there’s a shortage of real meat but because the powers-that-be pretend to think climate change is going to kill us.

In reality, they don’t think that, at least not most of them. They weaponize climate change hysteria to force obtuse policies on us. Replacing real meat with abominable alternatives is one such policy. Thankfully, some world leaders are starting to push back.

I’ve also argued on my websites that artificial intelligence is being used to not only advance the narrative now, but to craft the narrative for the future. Globalists like Yuval Noah Harari and Klaus Schwab have been promoting artificial intelligence as better for work, governance, and overall decision-making. That’s why it’s no surprise that when I asked AI chatbot ChatGPT to write an article about lab-grown meat and insects replacing real meat, the result was perfectly aligned with the globalist agenda.

Keep in mind, I did not ask the AI bot to editorialize or make the case for lab-grown meat or insects. I simply asked it to write an article about the possibility. On its own accord, it added biased comments such as “lab-grown meat and insects offer exciting alternatives.” Even as it described the downsides, it did so in a way that was basically a sales pitch for a future without real meat.

Here’s the article by ChatGPT AI, verbatim:

Will Lab-Grown Meats and Insects Replace Real Meat?

by ChatGPT

Meat consumption has been a long-standing cultural and culinary tradition for many societies around the world. However, the rising global demand for meat has led to environmental, ethical, and health concerns, prompting a search for sustainable alternatives. Two possible solutions that have gained traction in recent years are lab-grown meat and insect-based protein sources.

Lab-grown meat, also known as cultured meat, is produced by taking a small sample of animal muscle cells and growing them in a lab using a nutrient-rich culture medium. The resulting product is biologically identical to conventional meat but without the associated animal welfare, environmental, and health issues. This innovation offers a sustainable and humane alternative to traditional meat production. The process has gained much interest and investment, with several startups and established companies working on developing commercially viable products.

Insects, on the other hand, have been consumed by humans for thousands of years, but only in a few cultures. Insects are high in protein, low in fat, and rich in micronutrients. They require fewer resources and produce fewer greenhouse gases than traditional livestock. Insects can be reared using food waste and other organic materials, making them an eco-friendly protein source. While insects are already consumed in some countries, such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Mexico, many Western societies have yet to adopt them as a food source.

While lab-grown meat and insects offer exciting alternatives to traditional meat production, there are still several challenges to overcome. One of the main obstacles for lab-grown meat is cost. The technology is still in its early stages, and producing meat in a lab is still more expensive than raising animals. Moreover, the public’s perception of the product is still in its infancy, and consumers may not be willing to pay a premium for cultured meat until it becomes more widely accepted.

Similarly, while insects may offer a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative, cultural biases against consuming insects remain prevalent in many societies. This bias, combined with regulatory hurdles, has made it challenging to establish insect farming as a viable industry.

Despite the challenges, the benefits of lab-grown meat and insect-based protein sources are significant. They offer sustainable, humane, and eco-friendly alternatives to traditional meat production, which will be critical as the global population continues to grow. As technology advances and public perception shifts, lab-grown meat and insects may become a staple in our diets, helping us to live more sustainably while enjoying the taste and nutritional benefits of meat.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it until they physically shut me up. I will not be eating any of their abominations, nor will my family. This is why we just launched the only beef company in America that sells both frozen beef boxes for the near-term and freeze-dried beef for long term storage.

“A battle of civilizations. In defense of citizens’ health, of our production model, of our quality, of our culture, simply our food sovereignty,” said Italian minister of agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida in a tweet Wednesday, adding: “Italy is the first nation in the world to say no to synthetic foods.” There will be fines up to €60,000 ($65,144) for failure to comply. If the parliament passes the proposal, food produced from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals will not be allowed in the country.

“Laboratory products in our opinion do not guarantee quality, well-being and the protection of our culture, our tradition,” said Lollobrigida, a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party, at a press conference on March 28.

Prime Minister Meloni had changed the name last year of the ministry of agriculture to the ministry of agriculture and food sovereignty, and Lollobrigida is an outspoken critic of the European Union’s food programs.

The agricultural lobby Coldiretti backed the latest move to ban synthetic foods and claimed that the bill was necessary to protect the local industry from multinational companies. Along with fines, the proposal seeks to shut down producers who violate the law and restrict them from obtaining public funding for up to three years.

Opposition From NGOs

The bill has received blowback from several supporters of cell-based agri-products as well as animal rights organizations.

“The passing of such a law would shut down the economic potential of this nascent field in Italy, holding back scientific progress and climate mitigation efforts, and limiting consumer choice,” said Alice Ravenscroft, head of policy at the Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe, an international nongovernmental organization promoting plant-based and cultivated meat.

“Italy would be left behind as the rest of Europe and the world progresses toward a more sustainable and secure food system. And the 54 percent of Italians who already want to try cultivated meat would be banned from doing so.

“The European Union already has a robust regulatory process in place for confirming the safety of new foods like cultivated meat, and regulators in the United States and Singapore have already found it to be safe. The government should let Italians make up their own minds about what they want to eat, instead of stifling consumer freedom.”

The GFI cited peer-reviewed research when it said that cultivated meat cuts down emissions by 92 percent compared to conventional beef, reduces meat production-related air pollution by 94 percent, and consumes up to 90 percent less farming land.

The bill put Italy at odds with other European nations like the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain, where the government is pouring in millions of euros in funding toward cultivated meat, said the GFI.

The anti-vivisection group LAV said that the policy was “an ideological, anti-scientific crusade against progress,” while the International Organization for Animal Protection said that cultivated meat was an “ethical alternative” that did not harm animals and was protective of the environment.

Cellular Agriculture Europe complained that Italy was limiting choices of consumers who were concerned about animal welfare and the environment.

Critics are claiming that the new law would not have a significant effect on the Italian economy because of the freedom of movement of products and services across the bloc.

Eating Insects

The Meloni administration is also against promoting insects as a suitable food alternative—a trend adopted by the European Union and backed by elite organizations like the World Economic Forum. In January, the European Commission approved two more insect species for human consumption in the region, even after acknowledging concerns about the bugs triggering allergies.

Last week, Meloni said the government was preparing policies that will require companies to label products containing or derive from insects following a debate on the use of cricket-based flour.

“The government has presented four inter-ministerial decrees which will introduce information labels on products that contain or derive from insects,” Meloni wrote on Twitter. “Citizens must be able to choose consciously and be informed from every point of view.”

The government is also reportedly considering including Italian cuisine in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.

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The bug-eating agenda is no laughing matter: It is now seeping through mass media and the educational system as a way to normalize and even glamorize the consumption of bugs.

But why are these superpowers focused on forcing the mass public to eat crickets, mealworms and cockroaches? A WEF insider said they plan on breaking people enough to destroy the human soul.

One very important matter to the WEF is that humans have too many freedoms and that they consume too many resources – so they want to redefine what it means to be human.

On the WEF’s website, the organization is entertaining studies that say a good life does not need to be happy or meaningful. In other words, they see people as cattle that should consume fewer resources.

This is where their bug-eating agenda comes in: With the use of buzzwords such as “sustainability,” and “environmentally friendly,” the global elite is defining what a “responsible diet” is while shaming those who consume meat.

The WEF and other elites are in full propaganda mode in promoting bug diets, with celebrities now eating bugs on camera and mainstream journalists writing articles to promote the “inevitability” of eating what they now call “micro-livestock.”

A-list celebrities like Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. promote bug diets by eating live insects on camera and promoting “cricket protein” on late-night shows.

Elites are also using news articles to push their thinly veiled propaganda, including pushing for synthetic meat, which is part of the same agenda. These articles were filed under climate change topics to coerce and shame the world into adopting an unnatural diet based on insects and synthetic food.

If that’s not enough, the WEF is pushing the same agenda on the most impressionable: school children.

California public schools are now using posters that encourage children to eat bugs and educate others, saying that lots of people eat them. They also say that bugs can’t make people sick because, unlike pigs and cows, they don’t carry diseases. (Related: You WILL eat the bugs: Major brands quietly slipping insects into your food.)

The habits that humans adopt in their formative years usually follow them for the rest of their lives, which is why the elites are infiltrating schools with their agenda.

Bugs carry parasitic diseases

The elites fail to tell people that there are studies that contradict their propaganda. A 2019 study found that consuming insects poses severe health risks to humans due to the transmission of parasitic diseases.

In a study examining 300 insect farms, parasites were detected in 81.33 percent of them. In 206 or 68.67 percent of the cases, the identified parasites were pathogenic to insects only, while in 106 or 35.33 percent of the cases, the parasites were also potentially parasitic in animals.

In 91 or 30.33 percent of the cases, the parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans, which means that “edible insects” are actually underestimated reservoirs of human and animal parasites.

In 2007, another study that focused on chitin (the natural structural component found in insect exoskeletons) found that it can cause allergic reactions in humans. Chitosan, a chemical compound made from chitin, was also shown to lead to the depletion of vitamins in the human body.

This means that while insects could show good nutritional value on paper, they could be toxic to humans as they can harbor parasites, affect the immune system, trigger allergies and even deplete vitamins from the body.

But despite these glaring issues, the elites are moving forward with their agenda, creating fake crises to push the public into consuming insects and synthetic products. The elites are laying their plans in leading people toward a “decreased” supply of meat and an increasing supply of insects and synthetic food products.

Visit ClimateAlarmism.news for more extreme propaganda being spread in the name of stopping climate change.

Watch the video below to learn more about the dangers of eating bugs.

This video is from the InfoWars channel on Brighteon.com.

More related stories:

• Global warming researchers say eating bugs better for environment than eating meat.
• OBEY: Europeans will soon be eating bugs after mealworms get the green light from food regulators.
• Counterfeit News Network (CNN) promotes eating dangerous mercury-loaded cicada bugs that have been underground for 17 years as the “future of food.”

Sources include:

• NewsPunch.com
• DailyTelegraph.com.au
• NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov
• Nature.com
• Brighteon.com
• NATURAL NEWS