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
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 30, 2021
Roch Community Primary School headmaster Carl Evans, who leads one of the schools participating in the bug-eating scheme...
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What does grillon get added to, typically?
So far I have only seen crickets in snack foods. Who knows what they might try to put it in? There is a company called Actuallyfoods that uses cricket. They make snack puffs kind of like Cheetos. They are quite proud of it.
actuallyfoods.com
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Just like the movie Snowpiercer.
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