As the world mourns (or cheers, or jokes about) the death of Queen Elizabeth, some on the right-wing fringes are warning that the ascendency of her son Charles to the throne might just trigger the end of the world as we know it.
And even if he doesn’t manage to bring about the Biblical apocalypse, King Chuck is definitely going to force us to eat bugs.
What on earth are these people talking about? Well, Prince –now King — Charles is a top man in the global elite and he likes to go global elite-y stuff, like attend World Economic Forum meetings and give speeches about the actually very real dangers of climate change.
At one of these conferences a couple of years back, he introduced the world to something called “the Great Reset,” a terribly named plan for an ecologically sustainable post-COVID economic recovery — which conspiracy theorists think is the first stage in a diabolical plot to impoverish and depopulate the world. And make us live in pods. Eating bugs.
The conspiracy theorists really love talking about the bugs, which are, to be fair, actually being pushed by some environmentalists as a cheaper and more ecologically friendly replacement for meat. While Charles has not, to my knowledge, weighed in specifically on the bug-eating thing, his pal Klaus Schwab, chair of the WEF, has spoken of meat as being ecologically “unsustainable.” Which means, nudge nudge, you’ll have to eat bugs instead, say no more!
In a post on his Substack, “investigative reporter” Jordan Schachtel fills in some of the details of Charles III’s alleged evil agenda.
King Charles is truly a king for our times, in the worst possible way imaginable. He is a perfect representation of the western ruling class and its pernicious agenda.
Charles, to put it bluntly, is an anti-human reprobate, who has lived a life of disgrace, hypocrisy, and corruption. But his lifestyle is the least of the issues at hand. Charles is a king who has embraced and promoted the most destructive causes of our times.
Most notably, Charles is both a climate catastrophist and an advocate for the depopulation agenda. …
Charles doesn’t actually care about the environment. It serves as window dressing for his true aims. His advocacy for the “green” agenda, through Davos talking points, is part of a campaign to usurp more power for the “elite” circles that he travels within.
If the conspiracy theorists are right, with Charles in charge, (at least of the British monarchy) we’re going to have to prepare ourselves for a world without meat. I suggest stocking up on beef jerky, which, if not the healthiest of all meat products is certainly the longest lasting.
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Robert Haynie wrote:
Good point.
One thing that comes up in the insect food hype is the notion that “insects can be eaten whole”, while a cow (a typical example of a conventional farm animal) is only “40 % edible” and the rest of its body is left to waste (or at best, animal feed). It seems kind of disingenuous to me.
In reality, cows can also be (and historically were) damn near 100 % edible, if you have the right attitude and tools. You can grind the bones, you can cook the skin and cartilage and other tough parts soft and so on. You can’t really digest the mineral content of the bones, but then again you can’t digest the chitin of arthropod skeletons either – it passes through your gut. It’s a matter of our cultural and personal hangups interacting with practical and commercial limits.
I’m personally a big fan of shrimp, as well as some other crustaceans I’ve had the opportunity to taste. Normally, I only buy North Sea shrimp because it’s relatively accessible, affordable and sustainable. I typically buy it whole (unlike most people, who only buy separated tail meat) and then dig out and consume nearly all of the soft tissue (and some thinner parts of the skeleton). This practice can’t be be really incorporated with normal everyday cooking and dining. If the shrimp that are commonly on sale, cooked and frozen, were smaller (meaning softer skeleton, as well as much greater difficulty in separating the meat), I would easily eat them whole, but many others might not. And frankly, the separated meat and fat and roe do taste better than whole shrimp.
Now that I think about it, the insect food hype seems to assume that insects would be almost always eaten in a processed form. This would certainly help people get around the fact that they’re eating a) bugs b) whole animals. You could add insect protein meal in almost any food, especially since many consumers already have this vague idea that more protein everywhere is a good thing. You could even refine and structure the insect protein to create a half-baked imitation of some conventional meat.
But then again, you could do all this with soy protein, which is likely always going to be cheaper and more sustainable (environmentally and ethically) and about as nutritionally complete as insect protein.
@ Lumipuna
Prawn shells make wonderful stock, and unlike most it doesn’t take long to make.
Yeah, I think the most likely route of insect consumption is dried and ground into flour, apart from the factor of removing it from such a close association with the ‘icky’ source, it would also be much more stable for storage.
People needn’t worry unduly about the King forcing dietary choices on people. He famously made a point of eating some banned beef during the BSE scare.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prince-charles-finds-banned-beef-delicious-1077770.html
Having said that, his shop here does sell some amazing vegan pies.
Although I guess that’s Prince William’s shop now.
@Alan, must be nice getting a £1 billion estate with no tax.