[sudo-discuss] DystopiaNews: Veggie-meat: you don't have to eat bugs.
GtwoG PublicOhOne
g2g-public01 at att.net
Thu May 16 09:44:55 PDT 2013
Why not eat pork?
If you're Jewish or Muslim, "how silly it is to hold cultural and
regional taboos surrounding food sources," right?
So let's use economic coercion to force Jews & Muslims to eat pork, Jews
to eat shellfish, Hindus to eat beef, British to drink ice-cold beer,
French to eat Big Macs, Africans to eat fish, and Americans to eat fried
caterpillars not to mention their dogs and cats they can't afford to
keep any longer. Override all those local cultures for the sake of
global capitalism and call it "adventurous" or "an exotic eating
experience."
Some clever capitalists in China have even figured out how to market rat
as lamb, per another story on the Beeb this week. What's wrong with
eating rat, if it makes money for someone who lives like a king?
For that matter, why not eat humans? Sheesh!, look at all the corpses
going to waste! Turn them into Soylent Green! Cannibalism? Just
another "cultural and regional taboo," that's all.
Right. Meanwhile the Oligarchy is licking their chops and sitting down
to steak dinners, and laughing all the way to the bank. Because as far
as the Oligarchy are concerned, what you want, and what you like, don't
matter. The only thing that matters to the Oligarchy is what they want,
and what they like, and your assigned role is to bend over and get
"porked," one way, or the other.
-G.
=====
On 13-05-16-Thu 9:14 AM, Raymond Lai wrote:
> Why not eat bugs?
>
> In Calvin Schwabe's (the father of veterinary epidemiology) book
> "Unmentionable Cuisine" he suggests in light of the world's food
> shortages, how silly it is to hold cultural and regional taboos
> surrounding food sources. "Unmentionable Cuisine" is thus a compendium
> of recipes considered taboo by one culture or another. Yes! bug
> recipes abound. So do dog, cat, and (my personal favorite) fish sperm.
> It's a fascinating read.
>
> Here's M.F.K. Fisher's review of the book
> <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1980/dec/18/yuk/?pagination=false>.
> And she is definitely a person who has had her share of adventurous eats.
>
> ray
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com
> <mailto:steveberl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Personally I don't see that much difference between eating a
> shrimp and eating a cricket.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Romy Ilano wrote:
>
> Investors in veggie meat are not altruistic angels anymore.
> It's drawing plenty of main stream interest
>
> ---
>
> Romy Ilano
> Founder of Snowyla
> http://www.snowyla.com
> romy at snowyla.com
>
> On May 15, 2013, at 17:31, GtwoG PublicOhOne
> <g2g-public01 at att.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > For the second day in a row, the BBC runs an article
> promoting the
> > virtues of eating bugs, this time on their Travel blog:
> >
> >
> http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130513-is-crawly-cuisine-the-future
> >
> > Pictured is a handful of moth larvae grubs found in
> Australia: plump
> > translucent white squirmy things that look like hairless
> caterpillars or
> > overgrown maggots. The caption says that they are "...said
> to have a
> > crispy skin with a yellow 'eggy' centre when roasted."
> >
> > Mmm-mmm-good, right?
> >
> > The article goes on to say, "According to the UN report,
> 'consumer
> > disgust' remains a large barrier in many Western countries
> -- but for
> > some two billion people across the world, eating insects is
> really no
> > big deal."
> >
> > Unsaid: five billion people in the world right now don't eat
> bugs.
> > Though, the Beeb does get credit for mentioning "consumer
> disgust," also
> > known as the vomit-reflex, even if only as a "barrier," with the
> > implication that it's something to be overcome, like the
> desire for
> > freedom & privacy.
> >
> > As I mentioned yesterday, there are plenty of other
> solutions to feeding
> > a world that's overpopulated by a factor of two and
> overconsuming beyond
> > any sustainable limit. One of them is veggie-meat: vegetable
> matter
> > that's cooked up to be almost identical to the meat we
> already eat.
> >
> > For this we turn to another regular source of Dystopian
> News, namely
> > Wired magazine. Yes, "real geeks don't read Wired," but Wired is
> > actually a good place to keep your finger on the pulse of
> the corporate
> > oligarchy and the promoters of the computer-as-God religion.
> > Occasionally they run something that's actually good news,
> such as the
> > following:
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/future-meat/
> >
> > Beyond Meat is a new company that produces veggie-meat
> that's a drop-in
> > replacement for chicken in many recipes. They share the
> market with
> > other companies such as Tofurkey and Boca Burgers. At
> present most of
> > these products are found in the Vegan aisle in supermarkets,
> but the
> > goal of these companies is to put them right next to the
> meat products
> > in the meat section.
> >
> > Veggie-meat tastes good and has great potential to stretch
> the world's
> > food supply. Unlike the moth grubs pictured in the Beeb
> article, it's
> > something you'd choose to eat and enjoy eating.
> >
> > So far the oligarchy is ignoring veggie-meat. Funding for
> veggie-meat
> > companies typically comes from "angel investors" who
> consider themselves
> > rebels and often have altruistic motives alongside the
> profit motive.
> >
> > The oligarchy's mission, should you choose to acquiesce, is
> to make you
> > submit. Eating bugs is not about preventing hunger, it's
> about cultural
> > shock & awe: getting you to do something that grosses you
> out and makes
> > you want to throw up, the easier to get you to submit to other
> > depredations over time.
> >
> > But as Beyond Meat shows, you don't have to submit, as long
> as you're
> > willing to think for yourself, and exercise your own free will.
> >
> > -G.
> >
> >
> > =====
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13-05-14-Tue 12:07 AM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
> >>
> >> YOs-
> >>
> >> The oligarchy has its own vision of the World of Tomorrow,
> and the world
> >> they're preparing for us to live in whether we like it or
> not. I'll be
> >> writing occasional pieces about items in the news, to point
> out what's
> >> behind the chirpy spin. This is the first of many. Fasten
> your seat
> >> belts and keep a barf bag handy.
> >>
> >> -G.
> >>
> >>
> >> Let Them Eat Bugs.
> >>
> >> The United Nations today released a report that touted the
> benefits of
> >> eating insects as a solution to world hunger.
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22508439
> >>
> >> Hint: it's not really about hunger, it's about making you sub
>
>
>
> --
> -steve
>
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