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ok, this one I think will be met with a loud thud - even by the virtue signalling class. They aren't buying the 'Beyond Beef' BS (all on sale at my grocery store in the clearance department) and I'm willing to wager 'Better with Bugs' won't fly far either. (pun intended)

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I'm wondering who the owners of Cricket One Co are??

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Another reason we moved the fuck out of Toronto and into rural Ontario amongst local beef, dairy and agriculture. Guess it’s time to make friends with the local and awake meat suppliers (small family farms) in the area.

My wife and I have a half acre garden we put in last spring and are now going to be all the more serious on growing what we eat. Basically it’s going to come down to this: if we didn’t grow it, hunt it, or confirmed the single raw ingredients in what we’re using to prepare it: we ain’t buying it or eating it.

Fucking nasty MF’ers.

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What about us poor slobs with Allergies and Anaphylaxis to Shellfish and Walnuts and various other shells - in nature? The exoskeletons of these lovely little critters qualify... pluverized or not! GREAT NEWS (and actually deadly for some)...

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I can see creating a company for natural food products (crackers etc) that specifically say on the labelling “absolutely no bugs of any sort in these crackers” or whatever the product is. It would be a huge seller!! When life serves you lemons... 😁😁

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People need to know how these BUGS will be hidden in their food labels. It will not be saying “crickets”. They will be out to fool you. And these BUGS are not meant for human digestion. Just another reason Bill Gates has bought the amount of farmland he has. Engineered mosquitos etc.

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Read the ingredients list of everything you eat. Crickets, as well as a particular type of cricket called acheta, are already in some packaged foods in Canada. My sister spotted them in something at superstore. And if you have an allergy to shellfish they could make you really sick and I think even die if the allergy is extremely bad. This stuff is serious and it’s real. Sorry if any of that is in your piece and I’m repeating, I just saw the headline and the picture of the news story and couldn’t help my self from commenting haha! But seriously, if you know someone with a shellfish allergy, warn them.

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they’ve been indoctrinating kids into this. for at least a decade my friend’s kids have been down with eating crickets.

cricket flour is already sold in the grocery store.

and a friend in the usa posted a photo of some ‘healthy’ snack food which listed crickets in the ingredients (nothing on the ‘cover’). so read the ingredients of everything.

i believe there are ‘shellfish allergy’ warnings on them because same allergic reaction can be triggered. but that’s in the ingredients. like gluten, soy, eggs, mustard.

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It’s beyond disgusting. These bugs contain significant pathogens. We’re pretty much consuming only completely whole foods and about the single “packaged” products we get are condiments like mustard or ketchup. But I’ll be looking at those labels too 😬

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The problem with this crap is that they will start putting it in foods without telling us, just as they've already started putting nanoparticles in foods (mostly junk foods) without telling anyone.

https://imgur.com/a/WdbL2KY

https://twitter.com/i/status/1617283006921588740

https://twitter.com/Chayenn72766251/status/1615808006586830871?s=20&t=CqGK7T44CHv33JHq-eH8aQ

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Just add this to all the toxic chemicals already in the water and food. Also, check this out.

A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6613697/

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Bugs are germ carriers. Their shit cannot be extracted before killing & selling them. I will not eat germs & shit or the polluted bugs.

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I hope the London bug plant burns down! I hope all future bug plants burn down! God does NOT want us to eat bugs that are full of shit and germs. Humans are NOT bug eaters!

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This post really bugged me. For obvious reasons. I don't want to eat bugs.

As you said, check your labels. I wonder if the Organic food industry will be on board?

You made a great point about vegetarians and vegans. I never considered that. My sister and brother in law are vegetarian. I can't wait to ask them as vegetarians if they would eat bugs.

I guess I can add bugs to my list of not in my food if at all possible. Over my lifetime it's becoming a rather long list.

But I also, from time to time, eat a few of the pleasurable but bad for you category of foods. Very few people don't. For years I have tried to avoid transfats, gmo's, glysophate, and the " annual top 12 dirty vegetables and fruit because of their high pesticide count. I really resent that I feel our food supply is so compromised and complicated and corrupt. It shouldn't be this way

and I shouldn't have to question the actual safety of so many foods before I choose to eat them.

Correct me if I am wrong,; control of most of the food supply systems worldwide are in the hands of 4-6 powerful corporate entities.

If they want us to eat bugs it will happen.

To quote Henry Kissinger ( assuming it's true),

" Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world."

I'm no fan of Henry Kissinger and maybe he was caught in an unguarded moment, but his statement isn't wrong. The one thing he missed, given the time and context of his comment, was medical health. That truly has become the driving force, the new juggernaut in our lives. It is proving to be the most effective " tool in the toolbox" to affect change in the world at every level.

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As a veggie I ain't eating bugs.

If I decide to eat critters again it'll be a rib eye from Alberta, a lobster from Newfoundland and king crab from Alaska. Bearnaise sauce for the steak and lots of melted butter for the other 2.

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Bugs are NOT HEALTHY FOR HUMANS TO EAT.... Lets make bugs the meal for the elites that are pushing this on the rest of mankind alongwith all their other evil deeds

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