Our Multi-Cultural Future: Bugs for Food
by Ian Mosley
British scientists claim to have discovered the solution to high food prices and possible shortages of staple grains such as wheat and rice: human beings need to start eating insects. An article in This Is London magazine reports “…Scientists claim adding insects to our diet would be good for us and the environment. Crunching into crickets or snacking on grilled caterpillar is apparently a means to a nutrient-rich diet that also helps reduce pests and puts less strain on the planet than eating conventional meat.”
It should be born in mind that one of the long-term goals of the left-liberal agenda has always been to enforce mandatory vegetarianism, on the grounds that “red meat makes white males aggressive” and tends to make us go out and conquer other nations (or maybe even overthrow oppressive governments). Eating bugs may not be strictly vegetarian, but it’s clearly a step down from eating steaks and hamburgers.
The article notes “Some insects in their dried form are said to have twice the protein of raw meat and fish, while others are rich in unsaturated fat and contain important vitamins and minerals. Experts believe they could one day be marketed as a healthy alternative to fatty snacks… In most of Europe, bug-eating is largely restricted to the belated realisation that there has been an unwelcome addition to the salad. It is common elsewhere, however, with some 1,700 species of bug eaten in 113 countries. In Taiwan, stir-fried crickets or sauteed caterpillars are delicacies. A plate of maguey worms - larvae of a giant butterfly - sells for a pound; 12.50 in smart Mexican restaurants. Sago grubs wrapped in banana leaves go down well in Papua New Guinea, as does dragonfly in Bali. In many parts of south-east Asia market stalls sell insects by the pound and deep-fried snacks are served up as street food.”
So instead of sitting down by our computers with a cold beer and a bowl of chips and frittering away what little time our race and our civilization have left, we can fritter away the time with a cold non-alcoholic microbrew and a bowl full of chocolate-covered ants.
The same article continues “Insects are arthropods, much like crab, shrimps and lobster which are all accepted by the European palate. In North Africa locusts are sometimes called sky prawns. But Patrick Durst, of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, said that if consumers were to be tempted to broaden their culinary horizons the trick might be to make the bugs look more palatable. ‘You need to get the food into a form where someone doesn’t have to look the bug in the eye when they eat it,’ he said.”
Every year we see our standard of living eroded as runaway inflation devalues our currency and gas rapidly approaches the price of the fanciest bottled water. Will our politicians deport the hordes of Third World immigrants who are overcrowding our society, lowering our wages and clogging our freeways? Of course not. The elitist solution to our increasing problems including food shortages could have been summed up by a modern-day Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat bugs.”