I really need an explanation on this since people are not shutting up for months that EU is apparently putting insects in food for the people to be forced to buy and feed on like survivalists in jungle would? I know that EU is completely unhinged nazi hellhole and whatnot, but to this extent to feed themselves on bugs? I don’t think so.
Can somebody please tell me about this, they are not shutting up about it on social media for months?!
It’s a propaganda campaign by reactionaries to disrupt all discussions about the relationship between meat and climate change. Now any time anyone says that we need to decrease beef and pork consumption, it’s proof that “they” want to force us to live in shipping containers and eat bugs. There are huge industrial interests that don’t want the public to seriously engage with the idea that we are going to have to change our diets or anything else to adapt to a changing world.
From what I can tell insects are sometimes looked at as an alternative to meat. It’s nutritious and is far less damaging to the environment. I don’t think it’s a weird thing to do, apart from ignoring various plant based meat alternatives.
Now, you have some weird people out there, claiming we should all eat bugs or purposely sending pictures of whole grasshoppers for people to eat. I think that’s partly to blame by the meat lobby or just some racist bullshit about Africans eating bugs.
I don’t think bug burgers are going to win against plant based ones or lab grown meat if it ever gets that far. Not that I have to worry about that, I don’t eat meat in the first place.
Everyone eats bugs already though. The acceptable limit of bugs in food is greater than zero.
It is just a right wing meme about the future hell scape created by their scapegoat and totally not by capitalism.
I checked an international english exam (hippo english olympiad) who’s participants are mostly from global south countries and it had an article on eating insects that even suggested vegans to eat insects.
I see the suggestion of “eat insect to combat climate change” similar to if the brits told indians to eat a cows and pork to stop a famine they’ve started. Of course bugs are edible and eating them can help or someshit, but this is just watering down the climate change issue as a natural occurrence instead of something entirely caused by those same ones telling us to eat insects.
They think European consumption being equalized with Africans means that they’ll have to eat bugs, because this is their view of Africa…
And not shit like, chocolate being more expensive (relative to wages) and less available because African farmers aren’t being superexploited by Neo-Colonialism.
