It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s not: they really *do* want you to eat bugs.
They are the perfect solution to the food crisis!
If you don’t like bugs, you best prepare to be called a racist, conspiracy-theorist nature-hater.
And, yes, as your faithful correspondent, I’ve tried them. Beondegi, South Korean silkworm pupae. They were disgusting. While some Koreans like them, the vast majority of people prefer meat.

My wife asked her Korean dad why he ate them in the past. “We were poor!” he said.
And there you have it: insects are food for poor people. Do you think the serve silkworms and mealworms in Davos? LOL. “Ze bugs are for thee, not me!”

The future they wanted has arrived. They’ve made meat expensive and launched a PR campaign to promote bug-eating.
We were warned

#Snowpiercer
I mean look at these guys. They’re obsessed
Wow. Just wow
OMG I just read the whole thread and laughed so hard I cried. @neontaster has totally redeemed bug-a-palooza.

Please, WEF-NYT-WaPo-CNN-UN, keep demanding we eat bugs so as to keep @neontaster in fresh material
So many good ones
“Parasites were detected 81% of 300 examined insect farms. In 30% of cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans. Edible insects are an underestimated reservoir of human and animal parasites.”

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
“Meat tax inevitable”
“Ha, ha there’s no ‘war on meat’. How ridiculous! But there really *should* be a war on meat.”

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Aug 14
Without synthetic fertilizers, farming could only support 3 billion people — not the 8B people it supports today

Why, then, are the U.N. Environment Programme & the Food & Agriculture Organization trying to "steer" nations away from synthetic fertilizers?
michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/un-war-on-fe…
The U.N. says its goal is simply to reduce pollution

But farmers have proven capable of slashing pollution from livestock & fertilizer by 70% & 50%, respectively

And experts say they could reduce pollution another 70% through technological innovation

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What's going on, here? Why are the U.N., governments, and others seeking heavy-handed measures to cut pollution when what has worked in the past is technological innovation? After all, farmers don't want to pollute. Reducing fertilizer waste, which becomes pollution, saves money.
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Aug 14
Farmers in Spain (Andalucia) are protesting against rising energy & fertilizer costs, which are the deliberate result of policies promoted by the EU, UN, and WEF.

I have documented the U.N.’s war on fertilizer, and modern farming, which was launched in 2019 in Sri Lanka.

It brought down the government of Sri Lanka in 2021 and may bring down the government of the Netherlands, and other governments

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/un-war-on-fe…
Farmers in the Netherlands reduced nitrogen pollution by nearly 70%, and yet the Dutch government, with the encouragement of the EU and WEF, is now seeking to reduce livestock farming by 30-50%

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-elitis…
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Aug 13
The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) urged nations to move away from synthetic fertilizers. Sri Lanka did, and its economy & government collapsed

Now, the UNEP wants to take the Sri Lankan model global with the “International Nitrogen Management System”

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/un-war-on-fe…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) describes itself as “the global authority that sets the environmental agenda… and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.”
Through its “Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” program, launched in 2014, the UNEP advocated that nations “steer away from the prevailing focus on productivity"

In 2021, Sri Lanka did just that, banning fertilizer

Food & tea production collapsed

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-dogma-…
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Aug 13
The United Nations says it wants to reduce hunger. Why then is it promoting policies that increase it?

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I discovered something shocking: the UN launched its war on fertilizer in Sri Lanka in 2019 to great fanfare. One month later, Sri Lankans elected an anti-fertilizer president, who claimed, falsely, that fertilizers cause kidney disease. In April 2021 he banned fertilizer.
As a direct result of Sri Lanka’s fertilizer ban, agricultural production crashed, the economy collapsed, and the government fell.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-dogma-…
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Aug 12
Netherlands is the 2nd largest agricultural product exporter in the world

Canada is the 2nd largest wheat exporter

Sri Lanka is the 2nd largest tea exporter

Why in the world did their governments seek to restrict agricultural production?

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-elitis…
None of what's happening makes any sense

All nations depend on efficient food production to survive

Crackdowns on farmers have led to mass protests in Netherlands, Canada, and much of Europe

A fertilizer ban resulted in the fall of Sri Lanka

What's going on, here?
“If you push farmers against the wall with no wiggle room, I don’t know where this will end up,” said Gunter Jochum, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. “Just look at what’s happening in Europe, in the Netherlands. They’ve had enough of it.”
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