NPR insists that it is a conspiracy theory that the global elite wants you to eat bugs instead of meat.
And then, after insulting your intelligence, proposes that eating bugs instead of meat is actually a good thing.
It’s the old “it’s not happening but it’s good that it is trope.
PS: NPR hates you pic.twitter.com/YAGXaaloUi
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) April 4, 2023
You are a racist bigot who wants to destroy the world if you aren’t excited by the prospect of eating bugs. But it’s a conspiracy theory to believe that the WEF and the transnational elite want you to eat bugs.
Colonizer! Eat the bugs not because the WEF wants you to, but because you are a bigot if you don’t.
I have written many times about the fact–and it is a fact–that the World Economic Forum and other transnational groups are trying to replace meat with bugs. The WEF isn’t even shy about it. They have many articles on their website promoting the idea, and a simple Google search will show that this idea is common enough with the environmental Left.
It shouldn’t be controversial to point this out, but it is an inconvenient fact that people don’t want to eat bugs. So NPR is trying to thread a needle here. You should eat bugs, but it is a conspiracy theory to believe that the globalists want you to do so.
They are the perfect solution to the food crisis! pic.twitter.com/OpdMwpy0tI
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) August 14, 2022
And, yes, as your faithful correspondent, Iβve tried them. Beondegi, South Korean silkworm pupae. They were disgusting. While some Koreans like them, the vast majority of people prefer meat.
My wife asked her Korean dad why he ate them in the past. βWe were poor!β he said. pic.twitter.com/y237NmtBsH
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) August 14, 2022
NPR first tries to convince us that only crazy Right-wingers would possibly believe that the global elite wants you to eat bugs, although they admit that the idea has been floated by “fringe” environmentalists.
On March 29, the conservative video outlet Prager University featured man-on-the-street interviews with host Aldo Buttazzoni telling passersby that “the World Economic Forum wants you to eat bugs to save the planet” and asking them if they wanted to eat live crickets and bread ostensibly made with cricket flour.
Including insects in human food has been an emerging, but still marginal, idea among climate scientists and food security experts. In countries where insects have not been a part of the diet, it’s an idea that has long been met with hesitancy and occasional ridicule.
In recent years, however, this aversion has fused with an amorphous and shapeshifting conspiracy theory in which a shadowy global elite conspires to control the world’s population. For those who espouse the theory, eating bugs isn’t just a matter of disgust, or questioning the impacts of climate change. It’s framed as a matter of individual freedom and government control.
Uh, yeah. The EU just approved cricket flour. Crazy, I know, how conspiracy theories always come true.
As for the WEF?
That Nicole Kidman video made me want to eat bugs all day and all night.
Actually, that put me off Nicole Kidman, and I always thought she was gorgeous. Until now. Yuck!
The fact that eating bugs and Klaus Schwab’s “Great Reset” are spoken of together is proof, NPR suggests, that it is all a big nothing. A conspiracy theory born in the fevered minds of Right Wing fanatics.
The fact that Klaus Schwab wrote a book about it by that very name, the WEF website promotes it, and every world leader visits Schwab at least yearly to hobnob is all a coincidence. Nobody wants you to eat bugs, and you are crazy to think they do. The Great Reset is a myth.
[The Great Reset] has been adapted and adopted by leading prominent political figures in many, many countries in a way that’s new,” says O’Connor. “This was very immediately ‘the Great Reset is a left-wing thing and our response were we’re pro-freedom [and it] is a right-wing thing.'”
Right-wing figures can demonize their opponents by tying these conspiracies to them, says the ADL’s Aniano. She notes that those who have supported eating insects only suggest doing so on a voluntary basis.
The Great Reset has become a catchall, absorbing opposition to many different kinds of climate initiatives. In the United Kingdom, protesters flocked to Oxford from across the country in February to protest policy proposals that would reduce traffic and increase walkability, many citing the conspiracy theory and claiming that the government wanted to turn cities into “open air prisons.”
Go look up “15-minute cities.” It is precisely what they want to do. Again, you don’t have to believe me. Go to the World Economic Forum website, or look up 15-minute cities. Calling something a conspiracy theory these days is a slur, nothing more.
After smearing the anti-bug eaters as conspiracy theorists, the NPR story takes an interesting turn: eating bugs is a good thing, actually, and opposing it is actually bigoted.
I chose to screenshot this instead of quote it because you can see the juxtaposition. Above the screenshot is a picture of happy Cambodians with their bugs, within the text is the normalization, and the story link is to how you shouldn’t be bothered by the perfectly normal practice of eating bugs.
Do you see how this is going?
Nobody wants you to eat bugs but you really should want to eat bugs.
Apparently, this sort of BS works with NPR listeners, and it does for a reason:
They want to feel superior to you, and this way they can. First, they can develop contempt for their social inferiors who believe idiotic things like the WEF wants people to eat bugs, and then rebel against the bigots by beginning to eat bugs just like Nicole Kidman.
Jeff Bezos Eating A Cockroach pic.twitter.com/fhcfQgUh3f
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It’s pure propaganda, of course. Be like Jeff Bezos or Nicole Kidman, or if you prefer an indigenous person who was oppressed by European colonizers who looked down on them for eating bugs.
Whatever floats your boat, as long as you eat the damn bugs.
The amount of contempt the Elite has for you is unbounded. Do you think for a moment this reporter doesn’t know he is engaged in deceit?
Of course he does. He isn’t stupid. He put in the work. He knows he is spouting BS.
He just knows his listeners will eat it up. In this case literally.
An enterprising person on Twitter went to NPR’s website and typed in a query about edible insects, and found something notable: tons of stories about how insects are the food of the future.
Go figure.
There’s more, if you can stomach it.
— iHateitHere (@Ihateit43761609) April 3, 2023
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