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September 08, 2024

Bugs And Goo: Welcome To “Alternative Protein”

Bugs And Goo: Welcome To “Alternative Protein”

September 8, 2024

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

Sometimes it feels like writing for OffG has fallen into a recognizable pattern the last two years, one that could be best summed up “as ignoring the (mostly) fake stuff on the front pages and collating the real stuff on the back”.

Regular reminders that no matter who you vote for, or which side wins what war, the overarching agenda is still out there, eating and growing. Like the Blob or the Thing.

Censorship? We all know that’s on the elite’s shopping list.
Digital currencies? They’re still going.
Digital ID? Absolutely on the cards.

And we’ll be returning to talk about all of them no doubt until they eats any more or we’re finally shut down (whichever happens first)

But today we’re talking about eating the bugs.

Not just the bugs though – goo too.

Everything in fact that academics and journalists have decided to group under the umbrella term “alternative protein” in headlines like this one, from Sky News:

Are alternative proteins going mainstream? This multimillion pound new project hopes so.

This story is in response to 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

Like I said: bugs and goo – oh and some plants too.

What exactly is the appeal of the bugs and the goo (and plants) as far as the overlords go?

That’s a complex question, with a multi-faceted answer.

Part of me thinks they just like to see ordinary people humiliate themselves in the “I think we could get them to brush their tongues” model. But that’s just a theory, we can expound upon it another time.

Outside of sadism and other psycho-social motivations there are practical questions of profit and control. As we covered in our recent piece on genetically modified gene-edited food, intellectual property laws play a role.

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 their own animals.

But when your product is a few thousand freeze-dried crickets ground into a powder (including their eyes, intestines and faeces), mixed with chemical preservatives, thickeners and artificial flavourings to mimic real meat…

well, you can patent the hell out of that.

That’s part of the reason the edible insect 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 a full-court press on “alternative protein” propaganda.'

Last week The Guardian ran a glossy advertisement interview with the CEO of Meatly, the lab grown meat company, where he claimed “Cultivated meat is safer, kinder, more sustainable”

The very 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.

Good Food Magazine thinks 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”

Yahoo Finance tells us “Why Lab-grown meat is a win for the UK’s investment industry”

And it’s not just the UK. Obviously. It never is, just like prices don’t change at just one Walmart and the menu doesn’t change at just one MacDonald’s. Because globalism is already a reality, and your “national government” is just a local branch of a multinational conglomerate.

In the US, the University of California is being pretty straightforward:

Good grub — why you should consider eating bugs

While Finland’s “Solein” company, which makes bacteria pancakes out of “air and sunlight”, has been “Generally Recognised as Safe” by the FDA (the next step, I suppose, would be being “generally recognised as food“).

Australia’s “next superfood” is Hoppa, a bag of powdered crickets. Next month, Melbourne will be playing host to AltProtein24, a conference for the promotion of “alternative proteins”.

Last week Singapore approved 16 different types of insects for human consumption. Singapore is also getting its own “Sustainable Protein Research Centre”, again funded by huge donations from Jeff Bezos.

The silver lining here is that, despite all these efforts, there’s a good possibility this will never work. Article after article highlights the problems of “consumer acceptance” or “public enthusiasm” or similar phrases meaning the same thing:

Most people don’t want to eat bugs.

Hence the propaganda, I suppose.

I want to close by pointing out the truly hilarious modern irony of the story.

The same outlets that are happily promoting the fact the elites want us to eat bugs and goo:

Are simultaneously calling it a crazy “conspiracy theory”:

We are quite literally in the age of doublethink.

But never mind, we’ll be OK as long as we keep refusing to eat ze bugs…or ze goo.

Sourced from ZeroHedge

source:

https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/bugs-and-goo-welcome-to-alternative-protein.html.

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May 02, 2024

There’s a new app out that helps consumers find out if the food they buy contains insect-derived ingredients, and the ‘fact checkers’ are not happy.

New app tells you if your food contains insect-derived ingredients

New app tells you if your food contains insect-derived ingredients

“The Insect Scanner App is an essential tool for anyone who wants to ensure that their food is free from insects. With the help of the scanner, you can quickly and easily check whether a food item may contain insects without having to open it or conduct extensive research,” the app’s Google Play description reads.

“… The user interface is simple and intuitive, making it easy for anyone to use the app. Whether you’re a vegetarian, a meat-eater, or simply someone who doesn’t want to consume insects, the Insect Scanner App is an indispensable tool while shopping.”

Self-appointed ‘fact checkers’, of course, are not happy, taking to X to make Community Notes confirming that the app is accurate but that the insect ingredients, specifically dyes made from bugs, are actually a good thing.

So far, the app, created by German developer Marcel Bartecki, has garnered over 100,000 downloads since it was launched in September 2023.

The app also allows users to see the scientific names and/or ingredient names that producers use to mask the fact they’re processing insects and adding them into food, including those for house crickets, mealworms, migratory locusts, and grain mold beetles, with an option to not search for individual creepy crawlers if users don’t have a problem with certain ingredients.

This is particularly helpful in revealing the misleading labelling that some companies use to mask the inclusion of cricket protein, which is often labelled less offensively as “Acheta protein”, and other similar products.

source:

https://thecountersignal.com/new-app-finds-insect-ingredients-in-food/.

https://thecountersignal.com/news/.

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April 09, 2024

Democrats Sign WEF Treaty To Secretly Hide Insects in Popular U.S. Foods

April 9, 2024 Sean Adl-Tabatabai

Democrats have signed a World Economic Forum (WEF) treaty that will allow U.S. food companies to hide bugs and insects in popular foods without telling the public.

Senate Democrats in Minnesota blocked an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be clearly labelled on the package.

On April 4, the omnibus agriculture policy bill, also known as S.F. 4225, was passed by the Minnesota Senate. According to the bill’s author, Sen. Aric Putnam, D-St. Cloud, the “overwhelming majority” of the bill related to policy recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.

Alphanews.org reports: Before the bill was passed, Sen. Torrey Westrom, R-Alexandria, put forward an amendment that would require food to be properly labeled if it contains either insect products or artificial “cell-cultured” food such as lab-grown meat.

Speaking to his amendment, Westrom said “this just sets forth that if there’s bugs in your food for protein, cricket flour, whatever it is, it needs to be labeled. The consumers need to know. If your meat is cell-cultured and grown in a petri dish, you also need to know. Consumers should have that knowledge as they shop in the stores.”

While Putnam agreed that “consumers should know what they are consuming,” the St. Cloud legislator opposed Westrom’s amendment. In opposing the amendment, Putnam described the issue as a “future problem” and said legislators need to know what fiscal impact the labeling requirement will have before approving it.

“Everybody wants to have consumer awareness of the food that they eat, but some of us want to do it in a thoughtful way,” he said.

Westrom has also introduced the language of the amendment as a stand-alone bill, which is co-sponsored by Putnam. Putnam’s Agriculture, Broadband, and Rural Development Committee held a hearing on that bill earlier this session.

“One thing that came from that discussion is that currently there is only one space in the entire country that is selling cell-cultivated meat and that was a restaurant in San Francisco that has already stopped doing it,” Putnam said.

Sen. Nathan Wesenberg, R-Little Falls, spoke to the importance of Westrom’s amendment, saying “it’s imperative that these labels be on foods.” The rural state senator warned that mislabeled food could cause severe consequences for those who have allergies and anaphylactic conditions.

Sen. Jim Abeler, a Republican who owns a restaurant in Anoka, called the amendment a “no-brainer.”

“Let’s tell people what’s in their food that some people don’t even consider to be food,” he said. “Just because there’s no money in the bill doesn’t mean we can’t establish a policy.”

Despite the Republican effort to pass the labeling requirements, Westrom’s amendment was ultimately defeated in a 33-34 vote. However, the Senate did adopt an amendment from Sen. Rich Draheim, R-Madison Lake, that will require the Department of Agriculture to “evaluate options for labeling requirements for cell-cultured meat” and report back to the legislature next year. Draheim’s amendment did not address insect products.

“My main concern was the lab-grown meat or the cell-grown meat,” Draheim said. “I heard in testimony from three different companies that are producing lab-grown meat. So I think it’s going to be here sooner than some think.”

Ultimately, the omnibus agriculture policy bill itself was passed by the Minnesota Senate with bipartisan support; 58 senators voting in favor, nine senators voting against. Of the nine senators who opposed the bill, eight were Republicans and one was a Democrat.

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