“Humans have been eating insects for 2.8 million years!”
“Bugs can actually be good for you, if you can get past the ick factor.”
“SMH at people who will eat a cheeseburger from McDonalds but turn their noses up at healthy, all-natural protein from insects.”
“I already incorporate insects into my regular diet. If there’s ever an apocalypse, I’m gonna do just fine, while you guys starve!”
“Everybody already eats bugs anyway. There are insect-sourced ingredients in many common processed foods.”
“THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH EATING BUGS!”
These are all paraphrases of the type of commentary I’ve been seeing a lot of on my newsfeeds lately. Not from mainstream media, but from individuals—some of whom, I regret to say, are anarchists and libertarians…unless they’re actually bots. Is the WEF/Great Reset propaganda working, even on us?
I don’t mean to say that the above statements are erroneous. They are all, on their face, true enough. Yes, insects are an ancient and time-honored foodstuff for humans. Yes, they have nutritional value. Yes, they already form the basis of some common industrial food ingredients. Yes, they are an excellent option for survival when SHTF. Yes, the “ick factor” that makes Americans and other westerners turn their noses up at the very idea of anyone eating an insect sometimes borders on irrationality. And let me just spell it out for you: no, there is nothing inherently wrong with eating bugs.
But y’all are all missing the point.
Our cultural disgust at the idea of chowing down on “micro livestock” has nothing to do with why it’s a bad idea to follow the elitist agenda to “eat ze bugs.”
Nor does their nutritional value. I do not think that insect-based foodstuffs are nutritionally perfect as a dietary foundation, but even if they were, we’d still have a problem.
I’m ambivalent about eating insects—I’ve tried them. They weren’t my favorite snack. I’d probably eat them again if offered, just for novelty’s sake, but I would never choose to center my whole diet around roasted crickets.
But that’s just me. If roasted crickets are your favorite food, eat them to your heart’s content! Likewise, if the idea of spreading grub butter on your toast or pouring roach milk in your morning coffee is pleasing to you, go for it! Your personal dietary choices do not bother me and they are not the problem here.
The problem is an elite agenda that seeks to systematically destroy a robust global food system to replace it with bugs.
It’s not “You may eat ze bugs if you so choose,” it’s “You vill eat ze bugs.”
This agenda is already well underway, and has already achieved a level of success. As I wrote in my May essay, Why Meat Matters:
The fact is that the narrativists themselves hold the greatest portion of responsibility for this coming “end of meat.” They funnel enormous amounts of money into the propaganda machine to create the expectation that meatlessness will be a necessary facet of the future, and to create false guilt in people for making dietary choices that supposedly contribute to a coming climatological apocalypse. Meanwhile, they use their extensive and powerful political connections—their think tanks, NGOs, and marionette lawmakers—to further anti-meat legislation in various countries and anti-meat agreements in the international governance organizations. Ideologically driven, they invest billions in the very start-ups that they promise us will replace the meat industry, funding the proliferation of everything from pea protein burgers to insect farms to lab-grown meat analogues.
All of this effort is directed toward one singular goal: to fundamentally change the way humans eat, so that a techno-corporacratic elite can control the food supply, thus controlling us.
Emotional Manipulation
One does not have to look far to see the elements of propaganda being used by the elite to advance this control agenda. It has ramped up into overdrive. I rarely go a day without encountering a mainstream news article or video about how great it is to eat bugs. And, like all good propaganda, it favors feelings over facts.
The primary feels-based narrative in circulation is that eating bugs can save the environment. Since many citizens are already suffering from propaganda-induced anxiety disorders about the future of our planet, this narrative is quite effective. It draws upon people’s pre-existing fear and elicits a sense of moral duty. Never mind that it’s based almost entirely on false or unproven suppositions.
It is the height of hubris to ignore the giant ball of burning gas in the sky—the one that makes up the vast majority of the mass of our solar system, the one that heats our world, the one that we understand next to nothing about—in favor of folk tales about doom-inducing car emissions and cow farts.
We may have advanced in great technological leaps from the quaint ways of our primitive ancestors, but as soon as the weather starts changing, we trot out the same old superstitions and rituals, modernized slightly to fit our contemporary sensibilities. Instead of calling upon the tribal shaman to intercede with the gods on our behalf, we commission our scientist-priests to consult the sacred data. And once they have divined the oracles, they emerge from the lab-temple to deliver the same discomforting news: the weather is changing because we have sinned. Now, we must perform our rain dances (climate protests), make our sacrifices (carbon tax), and undergo ritual dietary cleansing (eat the bugs.) Then and only then will the climate deities hear our plea and cease providing us with excessive warmth.
At least our primitive ancestors directed their prayers to the sun. Maybe we haven’t progressed half so much as we think we have.
The whole pseudo-scientific charade plays upon our evolutionary propensity to collective self-castigation. And it does so by manipulating our feelings of shame and guilt.
If you think about it, the only way most western people will consent to eating bugs is by being shamed into doing so. It’s woven into our cultural psyche that eating creepy-crawlies is connected with shame. Remember the old schoolyard song?
“Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms.”
But it doesn’t stop at saving the planet. The narrativists have discovered another, even more creative way to shame us into eating bugs. We must eat insects in order to overcome our original sin ingrained racism and bigotry.
Bro. Literally no one cares if people choose to eat bugs. Stop conflating personal preference with bigotry.
But it’s never going to happen. Because, once again, the narrativists rely on this emotional manipulation in order to advance their precious (and deadly) agendas. If they had to stop calling literally everything an example of bigotry, they’d have nothing left to write about and their publications and think tanks would fold.
And as if shaming people by telling them they’re racist and the planet is going to die because of them not eating bugs weren’t enough, the narrativists are also coming after your kids.
As you can see, the emotional manipulation takes a different form when directed toward children. Instead of playing on their fear and guilt, it’s peer pressure centered—mostly designed to make them want to eat bugs because it’s cool.
This propaganda will have the primary desired effect of convincing people to eat bugs voluntarily, but only on a relatively small subset of the population. The secondary effect—to acclimatize us to the fact that bugs will soon replace meat whether we like it or not—is for those of us who won’t be shamed into eating them voluntarily.
As meat becomes more and more expensive (due to government-caused inflation, government-caused rising fuel costs, and other dumb government policies that create shortages), you’ll have little choice at the grocery store but to use alternative protein sources. At that point, more reluctant citizens will have been sufficiently programmed into acceptance that this is the future of food, and they might as well get used to it. The illusion will have been spun: this is a matter choice. You can choose between a $25 pack of chicken breasts, or a nice $7 package of meal worms for your dinner. See? You are free.
But for those few of us who have been aware of the agenda the whole time, who refuse to be conditioned to the elite control scheme, this is not something we are just going to get used to. Because it’s not a matter of choice, at all. It is domination, pure and simple.
So, to those of you who think “anti-bug” people are just acting out of irrational disgust, stop missing the point. You can eat bugs all you want, but your refusal to acknowledge the agenda only aids and abets the slow march to technocratic tyranny.
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