Insects On The Menu

They're serious. Yes, they are. The climate change- sustainability obsessives think that the ultimate answer is to forego beef, pork and chicken for dinner and instead make insects the basis of the human diet. The Nobel 59 conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in bucolic St. Peter, Minnesota was devoted to encouraging the consumption of bugs.  The original Gustavus Adolphus, an early 17th century Swedish monarch that helped make his country a European power, was unlikely to have dug into a bowlful of grasshoppers even if served with a tasty sauce.

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At the same time, the Wall Street Journal has run an article looking into the closing of meat-packing plants all over the USA. Their focus is on the negative economic impact this will have on the small towns where many of them are the principle industry and largest employer.

"Industry officials say more closures could come as meatpackers report declining profits. Chicken and pork producers are grappling with an industrywide glut, suppressing wholesale prices. Beef cattle herds are shrinking, lifting livestock prices and pushing weekly slaughter rates down nearly 10% compared with last year, according to the US Agriculture Department."

Meatpacking executives say that plants being closed are in need of major capital improvements to make them viable. Meanwhile, Americans are eating more chicken than ever, about 100 lbs. per person annually, and chicken prices are at record highs. Beef and pork consumption has diminished from previous levels as discretionary spending has been mauled by government financial policies, inflationary legislation and executive orders.

Others explain the situation as simply part of a strategy by the nefarious World Economic Forum and its acolytes in national governments and academia. The pressure on the agricultural sector world-wide has been noticeable. In the Netherlands the government intends to take 3,000 farms out of production to cut nitrogen in half by 2030. The Irish government would need to shrink the country's cattle herds by 1.3 million in order to cut their burping and farting methane emissions that are causing the glaciers to melt. Of course McKinsey & Company has its own recipe for both climate change and agriculture.

For much of the world's history, producing enough food for survival has been the focus of the human race. After all, sufficient food and reproduction are necessary for any form of life to endure. Technologically, that goal seems to have been reached almost everywhere. 

Only in the last few years have humans been able to wake up in the morning confident that their personal energy requirements for the day will be met. Now warped academic and governmental western elites wish to change that happy circumstance to their own fantasy.