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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Welcome To The World Of Alternative Food Brought To You By People Who Live In An Alternative Reality

 

Last week The Guardian ran an infomercial interview with Owenn Ensor, CEO of Meatly, the lab grown meat company that is perpared to work with any billionaire psychopath who wants to invest in making us eat fake meat. Among the pblic relations puff Ensor claimed “Cultivated meat is safer, kinder, more sustainable”

Just the next day The Guardian (again) reported on a “new study” that (shockingly) found “Plant-based meat alternatives are eco-friendlier and mostly healthier”.

Four days ago, another new study found proteins extracted from peanut shells could be used to supplement animal proteins.

And today a startup named Soylent Green Limited launched its product line of fake meat products synthesised from dead human beings, (Oops, sorry. That was a 1970s dysopian sci fi movie.) 

Good Food Magazine believes eating mealworms can cure diabetes. Medical journals are publishing pieces “investigating the health benefits of alternative proteins”

MSN is reposting articles from the Metro headlining: “Lab-grown meat is coming. Here’s why you might have no choice but to eat it”

It’s becoming pretty obvious that the ultimate objective is not to persuade us to eat insects of all kinds and protein made by processing toxic shite and sugar in laboratories , but to force us to do so by destroying real food produced by farmers and conventional agriculture. This process, using a combination of state regulatory coercion and/or taxpayer-funded bribes to farmers to destroy the agricultural sector, is already in full swing in the Netherlands, the US and other Western nations which currently feed most of the world.

 Thanks mainly to the fascistic manoeuvrings of globalist food corporations and their political puppets, food prices in shops and supermarkets are rising to the point where for the increasingly hard-up majority of people in the so-called developed world, meat, veg and fruit and dairy products will soon become unaffordable. Ultimately, it will be a case of “eat zee bugs” and drink the phony maggot-milk shakes or starve.

In the relatively poor nations of south-east Asian countries, it has historically been perfectly normal (and for many, economically necessary) to eat insects, grubs and creepy crawlies we Westerners would typically turn our noses up at, creatures including but not limited to snakes, small birds, scorpions and gastropods and of all kinds.

Mind you,I suspect even they might draw the line at maggot milk! 

If all this is making you wonder WTF is going on you are not alone. Many of us in the blogosphere and alt_news community are getting the distinct impresion that all this going green and 'net zero' bollocks is not really about saving the planet. To understand why we think this you first have to undertand how the billlionaire psychopaths make their money. It is not by manufacturing and selling products as in the past, b anut mostly by patenting and copyrighting anything that moves, breathes or farts and collecting licence fees, royalties, duties and franchises.

For years governments corporate businesses in the health and food production industries have been busy patenting parts of human, animal and plant genomes. This does not mean, for example, that before you eat a banana you must pay a fee to the organisation which holds a patent on the gene that makes bananas yellow, but that no other orgnisation can alter that gene to make bananas bigger and yellower without sharing thir profits with the patent holder. Patents are big business but biological entities are a problem for patent entrepreneurs.

An egg is an egg. Beef is beef. You can’t patent a cow or a chicken, and it’s quite difficult to prevent people keeping and breeding their own animals.

But when your product is a few thousand freeze-dried crickets or mealworms ground into a paste (including their eyes, intestines and faeces), mixed with chemical preservatives, thickeners and artificial flavourings to mimic real meat … well, you can patent the fuck out of that.

That’s part of the reason the edible insect and fake meat market is expected to grow to ten times its current size in the next decade.

In one of those ever-so-timely coincidences, the announcement of the new research project has just so happened to accompany  the launch of the UK’s new National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC), a £38million research project co-founded with Imperial College London (of Covid modelling fame).

Professor Karen Polizzi of Imperial’s brand new “Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein” (yes, that Bezos) described the new initiative thus:

Transitioning to healthy, sustainable sources of protein is a pressing global challenge. The National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre will help facilitate this transition by supporting researchers and industry in all parts of the process from product design through to consumer acceptance. At Imperial, we will focus on developing economical, sustainable processes for producing newly discovered alternative proteins on a large scale.”

The “alternative proteins” that are the focus of this  research being…

edible proteins that are derived from sources other than animal agriculture: from plants such as cereals, legumes, tubers and nuts; fungi such as mushrooms; algae such as seaweed; insects; proteins derived via lab-grown microbial cells or fermentation; and lab-grown meat.

It has also been widely reported that Bill Gates, the self appointed global vaccines Czar has invested heavily in fake meat and other fake food (maggot milk is one of his brainglitches, allegedly,) and you can be the rest of the usual suspects are in on the scam.

This goes a long way to explaining why governments are so keen to cover vast areas of prime food producing land with solar panels, or pay farmers not not grow food or produce meat, dairy products and eggs but instead let land 'return to nature,' (they call it 'rewilding' - we call it effing insane.) It is not about the money, but as always the real aim is to increase their power and control.

The Bilderberger WEF crowd, will keep flying kites in the media until they succeed in frightening us with another propaganda blitz to accompany their latest crisis or false flag Psyop; just like they tried to do with: Zika, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu, Monkey Pox or with a food supply problem they create so they can mobilize, intervene and resolve. Of course once they intervene with their social engineering plan things will never go back to full normal and we’ll be farther down the road to dystopia. Their playbook is extremely thin but they make incremental advances in their NWO agenda. The COVID panemic was just a trial run.

 

UPDATE 12 September 2024: 

Haitian Migrants show Remarkable Resourcefullness In Finding Free Food

While supporters of American presidential candidate Kamala Harris have been getting their knickers in a twist over her rival, former president Donald Trump saying during their televised debste last Tuesday that illegal immigrants from Haiti who have been settled in the rust belt state of Ohio have been stealing the pet dogs of local people and eating them.

"There is no evidence of this," claim Democrat supporting talking heads in mainstream media as if that proves Trump is lying to stir up anti - immigrant feeling. They obviously ned to be reminded that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There have ben many allegations that incomoers from Haiti have taken domestic animals (not necessarily dogs,) for food and now a story has emerges proving Trump has a point even if he mis - speciesed the victims of the cime.

Although Harris called Trump a liar, triggering a pile on by leftist mainstream media as commentators trampled each other in the rush to label Trump insane and declare there is no evidence that Haitian migrants have taken any domesticated animals for food.

However, Ohio state Attorney General Dave Yost weighed in Wednesday in defense of former President Trump’s claims of Haitian migrants eating pets by saying there is a credible claim that they are capturing geese and ducks from city parks for food, the Daily Sceptic reports.

“There’s a recorded police call from a witness who saw immigrants capturing geese for food in Springfield. Citizens testified to City Council,” Mr. Yost said on social media.
He said those people “would be competent witnesses in court.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/11/ohio-attorney-general-dave-yost-backs-claims-about/

Duck rescuer Lisa Montgomery, who has spent nearly a decade saving wild geese nd ducks in Ohio says an “unusual” number have disappeared recently and she “believes it to be true” that the birds are being “murdered for food” by Haitian migrants.

Lisa was shocked when she discovered the “unusual” amount of birds which have disappeared in the region, and now has “serious concerns” that they’re being “murdered for food”.

Speaking to DailyMail.com, Lisa said the sheer number of birds disappearing of late has far exceeded past summers in the region.

“I have over the years had many people reach out from the Springfield area. Recently with concerns of ducks and geese being murdered for food,” she said.

“I do have serious concerns over the issue and believe it to be true.”

Read the full story in the Daily Mail

Whatever you think about Springfield Ohio and the Haitian migrant invasion, one thing is crystal clear: the Haitians know a thing or two about finding free food.

Average Americans, who are living on processed junk food from the grocery store, will largely be clueless (and will starve) once the predicted, globalist engineered food collapse and financial collapse hit society. Migrants from impoverished third world shit holes demonstrate a much higher level of survival skills than typical westerners.

The story mentioned above confirms  Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are catching and eating geese caught in the city park, a snack also known as "wildcrafted meat." Almost all of mainstream media have denied this is happeninf and those far left political activist sites known as fact checkers unanimously declare it false. And as we all know, if an online fact checker declares a story is false, you can be sure beyond reasonable doubt, it is true.

When things get extreme enough, you may see widespread cannibalism in America's collapsing cities as the loonytoons policies of Harris and her team of far left extremists take hold. Yes, people will begin eating people. After all, it's a "food" source (although insanely toxic) that's local, probably walking right down your street. Cannibals in America don't have to venture very far to find another meal. 

Remember the Deagel predictions show 200 million Americans dying in the next 15 months or so. That migh seem a far fetched claim, but  Kommie Kamala has already promised to introduce price controls to limit profits, which will only provoke a backlash in which corporate food suppliers simply take goods off the shelvesif they can't get the profits margin they want.

This will actually assist the globalists agenda of replacing educated, organised western working classes with uneducated, semi literate third world migrants. Street-wise incomers are not going to be affected by price controls. The geese in the city park are free, as are the cattle, sheep and pigs in a farmers field, the deer and wild birds in national parks. Price controls only impact those who pay for food, not those who steal it.

 

 

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It should not come as a surprise to regular readers but I think most scientists are idiots, they fill their heads with book learning and theory and lose tough with reality. And as for cosmologists and theoretical physicists, well their Reality Quotient only registers in the negative zone of the index. But it's the food fascism scientists that really make me angry

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World Health Chiefs Say ‘Red Meat As Likely to Cause Cancer as Smoking’
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Conspiracy Theorists Were Right (again) Governments ARE Planning To Make Us Eat Insects

A research centre backed by the UK Government has been set up and tasked with getting insects and other meat alternatives onto supermarket shelves and making them more palatable to the public.


Bug Burger - picture credit www.acs.org

 

Businesses involved in creating meat alternatives have emerged in recent years, accompanied by propagada about how the omnivore diet of most humans is destroying the planet. Government departments and supra - national bureaucracies that created narratives about the environmental impact of animal agriculture, which accounts for around 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions from food production globally.

Minced fake meat created from crickets harvested in Cambridge and pet food made of chicken cultivated from egg cells are two products recently launched by British-based companies which it is hoped will become more widely accepted by consumers who,up to now, have strongly resisted food created by mad scientists in laboratories rather than farmers and nature.

The National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC) will look at how to cut red tape and bypass fod safety and hygiene stadards, while also exploring ways to sell meat alternatives to shoppers through focus groups sur,veys, nudging and misleading labelling.

But jbefore you are swept up by the hype about saving the planet  thake a step back and check out these interesting numbers. It takes 4171 cockroaches to produce the same amount of methane as a 1200 lb cow, 4171 cockroaches weigh just under 7 lb, cows taste better and produce several desirable products from dairy to fertilizer, cockroaches produce shit and methane and soread diseases. Termites produce more methane than cockroaches, they aren’t very tasty either but the psychopaths who govern us want to put them on the menu. No I haven’t eaten any. No dairy and no steak is a deal breaker for me, I’m a carnivore with the odd veggie dinner (portobello mushrooms stuffd with goat cheese and green pesto for example) thrown in.

 Call me a Conspiracy Theorist if you like, but it beomes more and more clear to me that there really is a plan afoot among that obscenely wealth cabal I call The Billionaire Psychopaths World Domination Society to reduce the majority of humanity to something resembling medieval serfdom.  Nations and social demgraphics have been brainwashed and gaslit to the point that all the powers that be have to do to kill them is to tell them to kill themselves and they do it with haste, eagerness and hostility towards those that are not killing themselves.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. Insects eat shit and carry all the dieases and parasites contained therein. And they can neither be gutted and cleaned like a fish or a chicken not butchered so that only muscle titue is eaten. You get the contents of the stomach, intestine and bowel in your cricket mince or cockroach mash.

Humans have lost all survival instincts.

It will get WORSE too.  With the 5g grid and the tracking and surveillance it facilitates in place, and AI Large Language Models creating narratives, mind control is only going to get easier.

Operation Crimson Mist is an example of what is to come:  https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/americanmcinbaghdad29may03.shtml

Not that anyone is going to read about Operation Crimson Mist because everybody is too busy playing online bingo, watching Porn Hub or playing stupid games on their smartphones.

The problem is when most people are too thick to see through the BS of Climate Change, COVID, Proxy war etc. and realise the (quite obvious) long term agenda of globalisation and the WEF…particularly generation Z.

If we do challenge such a narrative one iota, we are deemed far right, racist, bigoted, blah, blah …(insert another boring generalisation)…

We didn’t actually elect this government (20% of the population did…if that). Like all Socialist regimes, they come in by stealth by exploiting a weak predecessor government.

So I do hope the peoples’ vote reflects our outright rejection of this lurch towards collectivisation in our next local elections. I don’t hold out much hope…

Being ‘encouraged’ to have our wealth purged for the “benefit” of the state; being told that unchecked immigration is good for our country; feeding off insects and living in ever smaller properties, while our disposable income dwindles is NOT a future aspiration that even a young post-millennial would wish for. Wake the heck up everyone…

Please just let us have a sensible centre right government in a normal nation state. But maybe this isn’t possible in the 21st century anymore…and THAT’S not a very encouraging thought… 

 

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Sunday, January 22, 2023

In Ze Future You Vill Eat Bugs And You Vill Be Happy

 


Do you fancy a mealworm sandwich for lunch?

There have been any number of documentaries and exposés produced in recent decades detailing the dangers of this industrial farming system that we find ourselves beholden to, any number of activists ringing the alarm about these problems, any number of campaigns and marches organized to raise awareness about these issues. Yet still, nation after nation gets fatter and sicker as traditional diets based on fresh produce sourced from local farmers are displaced by the fast food pink slime sourced from the industrial farms of the Big Food oligopoly.

But as bad as things may be, they're about to get even worse. As crisis after crisis disrupts the food supply, the "solution" to these problems has already been prepared. New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself. (Source: Corbett Report: The Future of Food )

 

Given the World Economic Forums avowed intent to feed us ordinary punters a diet of insects, grubs and recycled shite, and the recently announced EU policy of introducing young childredn to the idea of eating mealworms it seems appropriate to draw attention to the many downsides of eating bugs. James Corbett has written an excellent essay on the weaponization of food in the culture war being waged by the elites on civilised society. 

He looks at some historical examples of just how effective this approach is but also what the future may look like, highlighting some research that is going on currently. For instance, click on the link which explains how DARPA (The Unites States Defense Advanced Research Agency - aka the people who brought you COVID19,) are funding researchers to find ways to turn military plastic waste into protein powder. Yes, really.

“But if this food crisis is being knowingly engineered, the question is why? What purpose would governments have for creating food shortages for their own people?


The answer is simple. We are witnessing a controlled demolition of the food supply chain, one that is intended to result in the destruction of the current industrial farming system as we know it. But this changeover is not intended to return us to truly sustainable farming practices, with local, organic farmers producing crops in accordance with age-old agricultural wisdom. Far from it.

As it turns out, the “solution” to this food crisis being proffered by the billionaires of the corporate-pharmaceutical-medical-industrial-philanthrocapital-military complex is being engineered in laboratories and sold to the public via a bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.

One thing is for certain: the future of food will look very different from anything that we have seen in human history.

This extract of an article published in The Guardian gives us some idea of what is in store:

Fried crickets on the school menu, milk made from fly larvae and mealworm bolognese for dinner? These are the environmentally friendly meals we can look forward to. Bon appetit!

My first attempts at feeding insects to friends and family did not go down well. “What the hell is wrong with you?” asked my wife when I revealed that the tomato and oregano-flavoured cracker bites we had been munching with our G&Ts were made from crickets. “Hang on, I’m vegetarian!” cried our friend – which prompted a slightly testy discussion on whether insects count as meat, how many thousand arthropods equate to one mammal and considering almost all industrial agriculture involves the mass slaughter of insects, what’s the difference?

I then tried some Crunchy Critters dried mealworms on my seven-year-old. “It doesn’t taste of much,” he said. His friend wasn’t wild about his grasshoppers either. “The legs are weird.” But connoisseurs insist that dried specimens from a packet simply cannot compare to free-range, seasonal arthropods roasted in their own oils. “The fresh ones are much tastier, of course,” says Dr Monica Ayieko, senior insect researcher from the western region of Kenya – and one of an estimated two billion people who regularly eat insects. “I love the smell of roasting lake flies or crickets. It’s a nice savoury smell. This is one thing we pride ourselves on in Africa – we always eat fresh food.”

 Well eating insects may be a big deal in Africa but we have to remember every poor fucker in Africa is on the brink of starvation. And most people also have about a hundred deadly deaseases, some of which are probably due to eating creatures that feed on shit.


 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

GM insects for disease control should be trialled in the UK, says House of Lords Committee

by Arthur Foxake


Staking its claim as a leading contender for "science worshipping idiot of the year, The Canary blog pubshished this in December 2012.


"Genetically modified (GM) insects could be trialled in the UK to prevent the transmission of disease and reduce agricultural pests. That’s if the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee get their way.
The Committee’s report, released on Thursday 17 December 2015, discusses the results of an inquiry into the science and potential benefits and risks of using genetically modified insects as a tool to tackle major challenges of food security and human and animal health.

The committee concluded that the UK’s considerable expertise in this area and the potential of the technology in, for example, stamping out malaria, which has already been shown in overseas field trials (for example, by University of Oxford spin-out Oxitec), warrants a UK-based field trial."

The science besotted idiot who wrote the piece completely ignores the obvious flaws in this plan and starts burbling enthusiastically about how releasing GM mosquitos in Britain will eradicate disease, poverty, unemployment, football hooliganism, Islamic terrorism and soggy pizzas (OK, I may be exaggerating for comic effect, but only slightly.).

Several species of biting mosquitoes (as opposed to non biting mosquitos? They're bloodsuckers FFS.) can carry malaria, which is one of the world’s greatest causes of severe illness (such as malaria) and death (from malaria). Although we don’t currently see people getting infected with malaria in the UK, the article warns, climate change is making the habitat more favourable for this to happen. Well OK, and it will happen sooner if people start releasing mosquitos of non native types capable of carrying malaria into the environment.

The only way to be sure of preventing malaria, as well as other mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue and chikungunya viruses, is to avoid being bitten by a mosquito in an area where the disease is circulating. And that is the aim of scientists creating GM mosquitoes that are sterile (either the male, in the case of Oxitec, or the female, in a technique developed by Imperial College London) and have been successful in reducing local populations of the insects by up to 95% in overseas trials.

Common sense of course suggests that it would be more wise to leave things as they are because the only cases of those tropical diseases occur in the tropics. But when was common sense ever a consideration for scientists. The thing they fear more than any other is that one day the research grants might run out and they will have to get proper jobs and GET SOME FUCKING WORK DONE. So these clever fools have worked out that if they can create problems, the government will pay them to find solutions. Who gives a fuck how many people suffer or die as a result of such idiocy, harmful consequences of their fuckwittery are never a consideration for scientists. In fact the more people that suffer and die, the bigger the research grants will be.

There are preventative drugs available, but science pushers argue the malaria parasite is becoming resistant and, although there was a successful trial of a vaccine reported in summer 2015, it will still be a while before it is available. Even then, this is only about 30% effective. And what makes anyone think that GM mosquitoes immunising people in an uncontrolled way is going to work(unless the scientists have created a GM collie dog to function as a mozzie dog in the way collies have herded sheep for hundreds of years.

The report concludes GM mosquitoes will probably not be a “silver bullet” against malaria. and other mosquito-borne diseases. OK, then, so it is just another exercise in the science of flushing taxpayers money down the toilet.

Another
scientific pipedreamproposed use for GM insects is in agriculture.

With a food security crisis already wreaking havoc in many parts of the world as, thanks to science incrasing birthrates, eradicating disease and increasing life span without considering the consequences (sic), agriculture must be made more more indisrialised and intensive (the scientists report uses the term sustainable but the increases in productivity gained through scientists meddling with nature come at a huge and unpredictable environmental cost.

The techniques where GM is used to control agricultural pests are similar to those aimed at bringing down the population of disease-carrying insects. The idea is that you release sterile individuals into a wild population and within a fairly short period the failure in reproduction leads to the reduction of numbers, without the use of costly and potentially harmful pesticides. The usual idiotic leap of logic there is that unmodified insects will choose to mate only with sterile specimens. Again the problem of our inability to control insects behaviour in the environment is ignored.

The only effect of this project us ordinary punters are likely to feel is an increase in our taxes as governments have to fund clearing up the various messes these poorly though through projects are.


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Bee Apocalypse: France Bans Bee Killing Pesticides

France is the first nation in Europe to act to ban the bee killing pesticides, neonicotinoids. While the EU's ruling bureaucracy has pressured member nations to go with the pesticides, and with glysophate (brand name Roundup) associated with Genetically modified food crops but recently named as a likely cancer causing agent in humans ...
Insane Science Pushing The Earth Towards Ecocide.
At the Daily Stirrer we have suspected it for a log time, science is insane, a game for the ethically challenged and sociopathic to compete to be first to develop a new plague, or a death ray, or to trash the enviromnent in pursuit of political power or corporate profits for their paymasters. There's even a name for what they are doing now, Ecocide.
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