Ultra processed foods are bad. They are low in micronutrients, low in biotics, and meals using them will be mainly factory produced. Remember when we all realised ultra processed foods were bad?

Insect based food that is edible, appetising and in a meal ready form requires ultra+ processing. Grown in industrial units, lots of water and energy is used to remove biomass and excreta, more energy to cool them to inactivate, more energy heat them to kill viruses and bacteria, more energy to dry to a powder, then come the additives to stabilise lipids, then they must be mixed with things like defatted soy, gelling agents and moisture stabilisers to create something that is easy to eat. You don’t need to be a food scientist to see this results in a narrow nutritional profile.

Yay protein, but what about everything else found in meat and not found in this insect mash? Just like the wonderous processed food innovations of the 50s and 60s, which turned out to be less than wonderous, this is all about money.

The investors of insect tech are also very big spenders on global political activism. It doesn’t take a political scientist to see that the investors are buying a regulatory environment that will force consumers to buy this pap. It isn’t about the planet. It isn’t about your health. It is just another business opportunity.

I will not eat the bugs, and I will be happy.

Guess I’m a knuckle dragger. I’m really not super interested in the welfare of insects. I’m not running around stepping on worms or anything, but I just can’t get emotionally invested in the colonial exploitation of insects.

PS. Please stop with the nonsense about coral reefs. For 30 years we’ve been lectured about the Great Barrier Reef on its deathbed. Now we find out it has the greatest coral cover since monitoring started in the ‘80s. No one wants to tell us the good news though. A recent survey found only 3% of Australians even knows this.

The article asks: Will we end up eating insects?

As is Unherd’s wont, it wouldn’t surprise me if an article appears (perhaps tomorrow) asking: Will insects end up eating us?

I expect the bees are busy doing their research to establish human sentience. The buzz suggests they’ve yet to establish conclusive evidence.

Guess I’m a knuckle dragger. I’m really not super interested in the welfare of insects. I’m not running around stepping on spiders or anything, but I just can’t get emotionally invested in the colonial exploitation of insects.

PS. Please stop with the nonsense about coral reefs. For 30 years we’ve been lectured about the Great Barrier Reef on its deathbed. Now we find out it has the greatest coral cover since monitoring started in the ‘80s. No one wants to tell us the good news though. A recent survey found only 3% of Australians even knows this.

I for one am delighted to see this latest division in the ranks of the elite scolds: on the one side those who want both animals and human beings to be fed bugs for the sake of the planet, and on the other the bold pioneers of the bugs’ rights movement.

‘‘Deuteronomy 14King James Version
2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.”

We will. They won’t.

Schwab should be the first to be force fed on this.

Our Lizard Masters command us to

‘Eat The Bugs’

They would – it is natural for them, well bugs and children, allegedly….

Not in this household. We are self sufficient for food (full on UK prepper). Insects need not apply – they are ultra processed, the very thing we have moved away from.

Get used to tucking into Big Mac and Flies. https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/the-elites-want-to-feed-us-insects?utm_source=direct&r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This is like something from a Monty Python sketch.
Most people intuitively don’t give two flying figs about the welfare of insects, and this intuition is not something which can simply be rationalised away by clever scientists, whichever arbitrary metric they decide to use – like calculus of insect pain, etc.
It’s embedded in the human experience, and probably an evolved instinct..
At the same time, most people intuitively don’t want to dine on bumblebee flesh

Here in rural northern Arizona, I can already find insect-based chips (crisps) at Kroger’s and insect-based hiking bars at Whole Foods. I have tried both and though I find them somewhat bland and pricey, I don’t understand the horror I’m hearing from food faddists who insist that The Gummint is about to force people to eat bugs, or that insects are more “processed,” their latest Bad Word.
To me it’s just another food choice, offered as one alternative in the vast array of comestibles offered at these market chains and all their competitors. Insects are a way of growing protein at a fraction of the environmental footprint of cattle, including requiring almost no water. In these parts, just that last bit is a huge advantage.

Nothing wrong with eating insects, I’ve had them in Asia and they were tasty enough

No insect has ever become extinct has it? Bees are threatened but there are many bugs, like the common housefly and mosquitoes, that I would happily live without.

This is what happens to a society that hyperrationalizes everything dialectically. It’s just Experts imposing speculative feelings on everything and calling it “Science.” Make no mistake, this is not Empiricism or the Scientific Method. This is Alchemy.