Posted on 05/14/2016 2:52:58 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The Swedish government is taking an extremely bizarre commitment to fighting climate change by spending large sums of taxpayer money to develop 'meat' made from mealworms and crickets. Vinnova, the Swedish government agency that distributes money for research and development, is spending some 2.7 billion kronor ($261 million) to replace conventional meat with 'climate-friendly' insect 'meat' and other strange alternatives. Yum
Breitbart News reports:
Green activists and the United Nations are behind such political initiatives as 'Meat Free Mondays' a gateway to full vegetarianism which are based on the premise that meat consumption is driving man-made climate change. Another method to reduce that so-called burden on the earth is replacing meat protein with that harvested from insects instead.
To that end, Vinnova is awarding half a million kronor each to fifteen different projects across the country, each of which tasked with creating an "edible prototype" of a new food. Among the mouth-watering projects being funded are an attempt to produce a "good and healthy product from mealworms which are fed on vegetable food scraps to become a climate friendly source of protein", "food prototypes" made from "refined mealworms", and mincemeat made out of "climate smart insects" such as crickets.
Other enticing offerings not involving insects include "climate-fungal protein", a "healthy vegetarian barbecue made from by-products" and "fibrous raw materials", and a "blue cheese-like product" made from beans...
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DECISIONS, DECISIONS.
Soylent Green or Soylent blue cricket Cake.
Soylent Green or Soylent Yellow meal worm cake.
We are smart because we eat meat.
Lemme guess: while the royals continue to eat caviar and filet.
When we lived in Washington state the local drugstores began having all kinds of insect bags at the checkout counters. Everything you can think of.
For consuming.
Not me. Ever.
I thought about applying for it just to send with my resume that I can: hold a cricket and tickle it until it spits up a ball of gook; bait one on a hook just right, hold two crickets while they engage in an epic slap-fight, and win a stare-down contest with one. Except they’re probably a gaggle of leftists who wouldn’t see the humor.
At least they weren’t snails!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkz151_snails-on-her-plate_shortfilms
God did ok eating insects that largely feed on plants, but those are not the type of insects they want us to dine on. They want us to dine on the creepy crawly things that eat us she we die.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isnt going anywhere. WE are!
Were going away. Pack your sh*t, folks. Were going away. And we wont leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam The planetll be here and well be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planetll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after were gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, cause thats what it does. Its a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if its true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesnt share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didnt know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, Why are we here?
Plastic asshole.
― George Carlin
Shouldn’t Sweden be FOR global warming?
The EU bigwigs won’t eat any of this serf-chow, you can bet your bottom dollar on that.
Kind of reminds me of Day of the Triffids when all the blind slaves were fed a diet of ground triffid.
It’s hard to care about people who hate themselves.
Sigh. Mealworms and crickets are already in the food chain - chickens eat ‘em. I see no reason to cut out the “middle man”.
Carbon is not our enemy. Carbon is useful for good purposes.
Trance-Formation (Full Film) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0PykgS42wo
You may wake up now.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Their Muslim masters are probably laughing all the way to the bomb making Mosque!
I’m with you. Having indulged in a cricket soaked in plum sauce at a sushi bar one night I can testify that crickets are not for everyone. LOL!
You go right ahead and write down them thar laws of thermodynamics and prove them evo-lutions be wrong there bunky.
Yup.
Nice that we have an ocean between us.
Just sit back and watch the carnage...no point in getting worked up about it
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