Posted on 05/31/2022 8:13:16 PM PDT by blam
Schoolchildren in Wales are being fed bugs as part of a research programme by publicly-funded universities “to educate children on the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects across the UK”, according to the left-wing i newspaper.
Children at four Welsh primary schools — roughly equivalent to American elementary schools — will participate in a study aimed at making youngsters “think about alternative proteins as real things for now, rather than just as foods for the future,” according to Christopher Bear, a Cardiff University academic helping to organise the study.
University of the West of England academic Verity Jones, another study organiser, appeared to imply that finding ways to weaponise children as “agents of dietary change” against their parents is one of the objects of the research in comments to the i, too.
“Many children have the power of pester, so in some cases can be great agents of dietary change within the family,” she suggested, adding that children’s reluctance to consume insects could be overcome in part by drilling it into their heads that minuscule amounts of bug matter make their way into regular foodstuffs naturally anyway.
“I have found that, once children know that insects are already, by the very nature of processing, in many of the foods we eat; and are assured that they won’t become ill from eating them, they are very open to trying,” Jones said, adding: “All research, for adults and children, indicates whole insects are off-putting, but ground-up insects within foods are very acceptable.”
Tax-Funded Research: Britons Could Live off Bug Meat by 2030 Because ‘Net Zero’ https://t.co/BqKM27jRlS
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Roch Community Primary School headmaster Carl Evans, who leads one of the schools participating in the bug-eating scheme...
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They've already destroyed energy generation ...So....now we can sit in the dark and eat bugs.
Democrats sure know how to ruin a country.
Let Them Eat Bugs… How Out-Of-Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt, & What Comes Next
Germans are so easy to raise.
Send them some fire ants. Yummy.
How many insects equal a pork chop in protein?
What can we expect from the UK?
I’d throw the pests back in their faces if I was ever served one. Seaweed I could give a try so long as it’s properly flavored but insects? I’d hunger strike first.
The problem with promoting the eating of bugs is that people will will not know that some bugs are good to eat. This is especially true of people with shellfish allergies. People with shellfish allergies should avoid eating insects due to the potential for cross-reactivity. Caterpillars, larval moths, and beetles. Never consume disease-carrying bugs like ticks, flies and mosquitoes. You should not eat hairy bugs because there may be stingers hiding in their fur. You should also avoid any insects that you know can bite or sting or that have a very strong odor.
Because some people will fail to use caution, it is best to eat what is commercially provided rather than go on one’s own.
They'll eat your standard pork, chicken, beef, fish, seafood, etc. But they waste nothing.
For example, the ladies here particularly like to eat chicken feet. They believe that it has a high amount of collagen, which will help keep them looking young and lovely longer. They feed the chicken bones to their dogs who grind them up with their teeth and eat them. They will fry up the chicken skin like pork rind and use it for a snack with beer.
With fish, they'll take the parts not immediately eaten and they'll ferment it and make a sauce that they use in preparation of other food, like papaya salad (it's called bpla ra for those interested and, if you can get past the initial shock of the smell actually tastes pretty good)
Again, the ladies like to grill or fry the fish skin and eat it for the collagen.
People love to eat their prawns here (I'm sure you've heard of those huge Thai prawns). They not only eat the tails like we do, they'll eat the heads and suck the juice out of the little prawn legs like their drinking from a straw.
They'll dig up crabs out of the dirt from a rice field after the harvest and either pickle them or preserve them in salt and use them with other dishes.
And, well, they also eat bugs.
(Pictured:a stand selling all manner of bugs at our local night market)
And not every Thai person likes every bug and some don't care for any of them at all. For example, my wife likes crickets, but doesn't care for mealworms at all.
(FWIW, I think crickets would be OK, but they need some flavor. Maybe roasting them with some Old Bay would be good)
As for me, the only kind of bug I like are ant eggs:
You can prepare them by sauteing with some garlic and herbs and eat like a meat salad, cook them in a frittata or other ways. I would actually eat then more but, unless you are able to harvest them yourself they are bloody expensive.
Anyway, when I see Western hippies trying to inspire people to eat what they wouldn't ever eat normally just to virtue signal, it raises serious questions about their sanity and their morals. Nobody here eats what they eat in order to virtue signal. They eat because it was something their great grandparents had to do to survive...and because of that they were raised to enjoy it.
How long until the animal rights folks complain?
Mmmmmmm Cockroach Cluster
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Granted this isn’t the US, but it does go to show the mentality and level of evil that exists in educrats that they would use and manipulate children in a manner like this to further their agenda.
And….. the UK is really only a few years ahead of us in all these “progressive” ideas.
I’ll make the sacrifice and let the chickens take the risk and process the bugs first.
Then I’ll eat the chicken.
This was obvious due diet change from what normally ate and their bodies took advantage of it.
Not bad, actually. But not a lot to it, either. Seemed like you'd hafta eat a pile of'em to get anywhere. d:^)
Actually c-sections are very common over here (Thailand) as well. My wife’s second child was a c-section baby as an example and this was 20 years ago. She was married to a Thai guy at the time, so you can’t account for Western genes accounting for it either.
FWIW
Is it not interesting that the college choose to inflict this on Primary school children and not their own cafeteria?
I find it as interesting as I find the wealthy elites flying to global warming conferences each in his own individual private jet while telling the plebeians to get rid of their cars to save the planet.
Very little interests me with virtue signaling, particularly signaling one's virtue by subjecting others with the result of that virtue while making oneself exempt from those results.
I’ve been reading your posts about eating bugs (yuck!). Did you know they are hiding it sometimes on ingredient lists? They call crickets grillon. I wonder how else they are disguising bugs in food?
According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), anything less than 60 insect pieces per 100 grams of chocolate – around two typical bars of store bought chocolate – is deemed safe for public consumption.
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