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Hard pass. Happy to leave edible bugs to the globalists, I'll keep my steak, thanks.

what does this even mean, the globalists? anyways more ants for me!

I almost want to leave peoples' minds closed about this kind of thing to avoid an increase in demand. I don't want my Sal de Gusano doubling in price either.

Me too, but eventually you just get so excited about eating the bugs that you can't help but to run around enthusiastically telling everybody you know about how great it is. I can't help raving about them even though I'm like you and tried my best not to blab. It's the secret that we're not supposed to let out!

It is published World Economic Forum propaganda to move the global population away from eating meat, to eating bugs, for 'sustainability' reasons. Similar to 'you will own nothing, and be happy'. Kinda interesting to see who dismisses it as a conspiracy theory when it's published on the WEF website:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh...

You seem to believe that the 'sustainability' argument is a bogus smokescreen. Why do you think the WEF is actually publishing this article? Please explain the conspiracy I'm missing.

I do think sustainability (and the global warming concern in general) is a bogus smokescreen. I am of the opinion it is propaganda put forth by America's (and "The West's") economic adversaries to weaken our position on the global stage and make us a less capable, less successful/prosperous, nation. Articles like the original one starting this conversation thread strike me less as an organic "Hey, look how cool/new/tasty this is!" and more as a targeted "lets move the population's Overton window over to 'this is acceptable, please work past your natural revulsion to this and eat our bugs'".

As far as I understand it the people trying to push insect protein as a meat substitute are US entrepreneurs, the same kind of people trying to sell fake meat burgers with beetroot heme and the like. I think you got your sights on the wrong target. The people who are trying to sell you trendy liberal causes to take your money and the people who are worried about the environment are completely different groups of people with entirely disjoint priorities.

I'm very critical of globalist institutions like the UN, WHO et al myself, but I don't see how eating insects weakens America / the west.

If anything, you'd expect 'globalists' would be, at least passively, on the anti-ant side; globalisation has tended to diminish regional cultural practices.

(As far as I can see, though, most people who use the term 'globalists' (vs globalisation) are actually using it to mean essentially a reheated version of Nazi conspiracy theories, so, well, who knows.)

It's a far right conspiracy theory about jews, of course. It always gets mentioned in this context because the other part of it is a fantasy about there being a plot to enslave people and force them to eat bugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism#Right-wing_usage

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1166649732/conspiracy-theory-...

Bloomberg even wrote about this particular conspiracy theory this March [0]. Wait, no, I meant the previous March, here is the right link: [1].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-05/the-bu...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-26/eating-in...

They are researching the use of certain ants as flavor enhancers. Mexicans know a thing or two about making food delicious, and Chicatana ants are used in Oaxacan cuisine to add complexity to sauces. Rest assured, this is entirely based on merit of the price-to-flavor ratio and not a conspiracy to replace your steak.

As if the World isn't complicated enough already, some people feel the need to add complexity to their sauces.

Digging out Honeyants to eat in recess during primary school is more a local thing than a globalist thing .. it's not even woke, it's just free candy.

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