In a complete change from yesterday’s delicious item on Pastrami & Rye and other yummy things, here’s something decidely not tasty, and it’s happening a lot closer to home than I expected, since I thought they’d try this shit in part of Europe and the US first.

But I guess those peoples, with their history of fine cusine, have better taste than Australian schoolkids:

A teacher from one of the 1,000 Australian schools feeding kids chips made out of powdered crickets asks, ‘Do crickets taste good?’ The student nods and the teacher adds, ‘Yeah. Let’s eat some more crickets…!’

Bugs are on the menu again… Why does the World Economic Forum have such a weird obsession with making our kids eat them?

Well the WEF has many weird obsessions and should be nuked from orbit the next time it meets in Davos. It’s the only way to be sure.

But all their obsessions have one thing in common, which is not massive, transformative economic change – that is merely the strategy – but the goal of saving the planet from the humans – so we can save the insects, at least the ones we’re not eating:

The official World Economic Forum line is that eating meat is accelerating the effects of Climate Change. Therefore, to fix ‘the climate’ humans need to reduce their consumption of meat and replace it with a climate-friendly substitute. There are a few on offer, but the favourite is insect protein.

It’s not just dairy farming that’s in the gunsights of these creatures. Here in NZ they may not have to use the insects-as-protein angle since the various new environmental regulations that are coming could wipe out at least 20% of sheep and beef farmers, and of course we’re already losing tens of thousands of hectares of such land to pine forests for carbon farming.

But in Australia they’ve gone for the propaganda angle instead, hence the schools, though exactly how this propaganda was enabled I’m not sure. It certainly involves private enterprise, with a company called Circle Harvest involved – there’s one in England called Yum Bug, who’ve obviously decided on in-your-face propaganda with that name. But the teachers, as one would expect, are fully on board:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Jx5CwY18s

“Chips are great, aren’t they? And these chips are even better because they think they’re better for you!’…‘Can you taste it? No, you can’t. It tastes like normal CCs doesn’t it?”

Yeah, because insects taste like shit. But if you just add the 11 secret herbs and spices then they taste great, better than tofu.

The secret, as with all the best propagandists in history – from the Jesuits to the Communists and Nazis – is to get to the young kids. A decade from now these little ones will be demanding their insect meals at university and by 2060 they’ll be in government and leading corporations like Yum Bug.

I’ve never seen the following movie because although I liked Science Fiction as a kid I was not into dystopian predictions of a shitty future for the Earth, but I guess I should watch this now as a guide to what the WEF will come up with next.