Is is "right-wing" to oppose eating bugs?

[Lliam]

NPR says that the WEF Great Reset is a conspiracy theory.

"Using insects as a source of protein is only at the edges of the policy debate when it comes to cutting climate pollution from agriculture. 'Scientists' (again, The Science) focus mainly on reducing meat consumption and eating more plant-based food. Although the idea is marginal, various right-wing media outlets use insect eating as a punchline to mock the climate movement." (It's anti-environmental to oppose eating bugs. "How DARE you!")

"... the phrase ["I don't want to eat the bugs. I don't want to live in the pod. I don't want to be trapped in a digital jail. And nothing they can do will make me."] crossed over to Twitter, first by way of a white nationalist. Over time, it has fused into a darker conspiracy theory currently known as the Great Reset." (Get it? Only racists oppose switching from delicious food to bugs."

"... this idea of a shadowy ruling elite goes way back, often drawing on familiar, sometimes anti-Semitic tropes. (Ah yes, the old 'anti-Semitic' trope.) The gathering of global elites in Davos has long held the imagination of conspiracy theorists. For many who spread this narrative, 'bug eating is not just a threat to personal freedom but also a threat to identity', as Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in 2019.

"Right-wing political figures have used these claims to propagate this idea of a socialist authoritarian bogeyman or a strawman, and it doesn't even need to be far left."

Oh those far right-wing conspiracy theorists. LOL

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167550482/how-a-conspiracy-theory-about-eating-bugs-made-its-way-to-international-politics

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8 mo

Yeah, nobody is proposing eating bugs.
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[CuriousMufuxka]

Listen, I'll eat a right and left chicken wing but in no way will I ever consume bugs! Well unless they decide to crawl down my throat while I'm passed out drunk.

[Jamie05rhs]

Is that even a real thing, though? Are there even actually people out there that are promoting the idea of eating bugs?

[AngryCarl2]

I don't think anyone is promoting it. Maybe they should?

[Jamie05rhs]

@AngryCarl2 I have no idea, man.

[Lliam]

"The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has encouraged the consumption of insects since 2013, advocating for the inclusion of insects in a daily diet, as a sustainable and nutritious alternative to resource-intensive staples such as beef, poultry and fish."

www.cnbc.com/.../...-americans-to-eat-insects.html

[Jamie05rhs]

@Lliam Wow. For real? Wtf. No, thank you! I'm not a warthog nor am I a meerkat.

[Lliam]

It's funny how the media calls the idea a "right-wing" conspiracy theory.

[Jamie05rhs]

@Lliam they call everything "right-wing" if they don't agree with it. Haha

[Jamie05rhs]

Thanks for the MHO!

[Daniela1982]

Thanks! There goes lunch.

Eat bugs?

URP!!

[lightbulb27]

I'll say no, but the right does make some things look extreme and "reactive" sells. People ate bugs for millenia. They still eat bugs. the "Indians"... ate bugs for protein. Everyone out here probably eats bugs baked into their food and just doesn't know it... e. g. additives. My pets would eat bugs...

I'd think lots of people don't want to intentionally eat bugs, left right and center. What's also weird is that right wingers are generally business people, and they want $$$$ so if they can sell bugs for food, you'd think they'd do it. I suspect our pets eat bugs in their food.

It's the left that generally promotes and latches onto "crazy" ideas and makes them mainstream. Anything at this point can fall into "climate change" so that is the theme that will drive this generation probably well into 2100+.

I like what I see in Europe to some extent and I can express that if people have interest. USA can do better.

[inhua]

leave it up to the political left to put politics into diets

though to be fair, people have been eating shrimp, crabs, lobsters which are arthropods so technically they can be classified as bugs too

but still that won't stop me from eating meat when I want to eat meat

[exitseven]

Only moonbats would say something like that. I bet when push comes to shove you will not see John Kerry eat a grasshopper.

[AngryCarl2]

I don't see how bugs would be worse to eat than seafood. Especially if they were fried up and served with fava beans and a nice chianti.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SEQZiElLp-E

[BigDog1989]

It's not anything to oppose eating bugs. That's disgusting, left or right

[Juxtapose]

@OddBeMe "credible source" right there xD

[Juxtapose]

Fun fact: USA intelligence agencies were the first ones that coin the term "conspiracy theory", especially after JFK was assassinated by the CIA

[dolemite58]

it’s apparently right wing to exercise according to msnbc

[Sevenpointfive]

i'll stick to my tofu

[Anonymous]

They shouldn't even exist. They can eat the bugs.

[gorydetails]

We’re running out of conspiracies.

[Snakeyes7]

It shouldn't be but it is.