Why Do They Want You To Eat The Bugs And Not Garden? Profit And Control.

“I thought the garden was the right place for her.” – Alien:  Covenant

We could get rid of all of the carbon in the atmosphere by making the oceans carbonated.  This would work, because right now, the Earth is flat. (memes mostly as found)

Last week I wrote about the ridiculous idea that electric cars (absent a big technical breakthrough) are the solution to anything other than a rich person trying to smugly signal their virtue like a really, really expensive Bernie Sanders campaign sign.  Continuing on the “carbon is bad” mantra of the GloboLeftElite®, the next obvious thing to deal with?

Food.

For some time, the mantra from GloboLeftElite© is that it’s time for you to stop eating the food you’re eaten your entire life, and eat bugs.  Why eat steak when you could eat crickets and worms instead?  Oh, and have you heard about all of the huge environmental problems that Big Agriculture™ causes?  Why, there are huge tractors guzzling diesel fuel as they lumber about the farms!  And farmers just love to burn vast ponds of diesel into great geysers of black smoke because they’re so rich and hate the environment.

Farmers I like, but I’ll not get up to defend the current average diet in America – there’s too much corn syrup and too many gallons of seed oils and it apparently makes Amber Heard poop the bed.  All American food isn’t bad, but some of the current commercial implementations are.  But there’s an alternative for lots of people.

Gardens.

Gardens are one reason a lot more folks didn’t starve back during the Great Depression – people were able to make a lot of their own food (a lot, not all of it) mostly for free.  Yup, stick a seed in the ground, fertilize it, water it, keep the weeds and bugs out of the garden, and you get food.  During both World Wars kitchen gardens helped people deal with food scarcity.

I mean, that’s the theory.  GloboLeftElite™ would prefer you just eat the bugs.  A recent article in The Telegraph notes that “the carbon footprint of homegrown food is five times greater than those grown conventionally.”

I thought this meme was a joke.  Nope.  Real. 

Yes, you read that correctly.  Gardens, in this case urban gardens, are the next thing that has to go.  Why?  Well, it’s not the growing of the food that creates the carbon, you see, it’s all the infrastructure.

They count sheds (which, if made of wood, would sequester carbon, but, hey) and sidewalks and things like raised beds, which apparently are single use, since lower carbon can be achieved by “using urban agriculture sites for many years.”

Who knew you could plant crops the next year, too?  And who knew that growing things that eat CO2 without using CO2, lead to more CO2?

I’m not kidding.

Yes, they (in this case, idiots with degrees at the University of Michigan) count the sidewalk that is probably already there to get to this ridiculous answer.  There were a few foods they were okay with:  tomatoes and asparagus, because those used greenhouses to grow and air freight to move them to supermarkets.

I heard OSHA started making porn.  They’re experts in NSFW content.

Again, silly answer, but what do you expect from the people who brought you this sad little garden in the CHAZ during the “George had too much fentanyl and died” riots of 2020.  Yes, the people at CHAZ were serious.

This is why GloboLeftElites™ want to ban gardens – revenge!

But the GloboLeftElite© wants you to lower your carbon footprint.  Oddly, the dinner menu at the World Economic Forum didn’t include a diet of corn syrup, slugs, and microplastics.  And none of them arrived by bus.

The propaganda from GloboLeftElite™ has, however, been excellent.  People have been brainwashed into believing that vats of gooey insect parts are where healthy food comes from, and tasty cows are the force of pure evil in the world.  Soylent Green™ is now no longer dystopian – the rank-and-file GloboLeft® (notice we’re missing the “Elite” part) think that Impossible Meat™ is better.

History has shown the GloboLeftElite® is never, ever right.  In fact, I’ll go one better:

  • If we don’t do the things that the GloboLeftElite® want us to do, they claim it will destroy us through a magical demon called carbon that has been higher than it is today for most of Earth’s history (after life, that is).
  • The truth is that we do the things that the GloboLeftElite© want us to do, it will certainly destroy us.

I know that there’s been a long-time war against meat, at least since the 1960s.  Vegetarians, are almost always Lefties, but it’s okay, because they’re weak.  Why do they not want us to have meat?  Because it makes us strong?

I think vegetarians always lose because they’re too weak for leg day.

The biggest problem for GloboLeftElite© is that food from your garden gives them no profits and gives them no control over you.  We have the technology to turn bugs into a tasty protein source:  it’s called a chicken egg.  But they want you to eat the bugs, because if they humiliate you enough to eat the bugs, they know that they can make you do anything.  Anything.

Want proof?  Why, when COVIDmania® was ongoing did Michigan ban stores selling anything but essentials, and those essentials didn’t include seeds for food?  Why did a group of Amish get raided and arrested for selling food?  Control.  And GloboLeftElite™ loves that.

Yes, that’s what they think.

Controlling the food as a route to controlling the people has been a strategy employed since the days of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.  It’s very easy to control a person if they starve when they misbehave based on social credit scores.

Remember that the real source of carbon they want to stop is you, and that if they were serious, they’d ban big yachts and private jets and look outside of the Western world for sources of carbon to cut.  No, it’s you, and it’s personal.  They want you to eat bugs to help the climate.  What did they eat at the Climate Conference in Dubai back in November?

“Traditionally Cooked Smoked Briskets, Smoked Ribs and our Smoked Wagyu Burgers. Our Style of Cooking gives unique taste and technique in Authentic Gourmet Foods.” Think I’m kidding?  Here’s the LINK.

Yes, they could cut back.

But they won’t.  GloboLeftElite© would never fly commercial.  That’s for bug-eating peasants.

Hey, do you have a license for that garden?

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

28 thoughts on “Why Do They Want You To Eat The Bugs And Not Garden? Profit And Control.”

  1. There’s too much evidence showing “they” think I’ve outlived my purpose. Give them enough time, and it won’t be just bugs for me to eat, it’s short time in a tent filled with nitrogen. How it all turns out will be seen, but I have a strong feeling many will find old folks are very crafty, determined and are not worried about long prison sentences.

  3. If you can’t grow your own food and can only eat what They allow you to, it gives them control and will make it that much easier to get rid of the superfluous people. They have already come right out and said that, only most people aren’t paying attention and don’t believe them.

  5. Well if Joe PINKSTONES says the backyard truck garden = Climate Change, I guess it’s settled science. I wonder if Mr. PINKSTONES is the brother of that bitchwitch, Shulamith FIRESTONE?

    . . . bringing us to Olivia ‘No place to’ Land, to assure us that our breathing — sadly — also = Climate Change. And Something Must Be Done. Something = you.

    The accompanying photo reveals the target audience of this particular low-grade psyop: Why, it’s the Grrls! ‘midst the glowing sunrays of Bucolic Park, mystically entranced, deep in the spiritual empowerment that is Almighty Yoga. The Hive, hiving and jiving and a-bonding, making the world a better place. Love Wins!

  6. Here in dry, dusty South Texas we are flooding again today from record-breaking rain, but the town has a requirement on the books, ignored by one and all, that we register our rain barrels. Read that again. We are required to get permission from our betters to catch rain falling freely from the sky onto our roofs.

    Is it just another money grab? Possibly. But I believe it is about control. It is (usually) very dry down here, and water is the most essential element for survival in this God-forsaken semi-desert. We are told with a straight face that because water we collect from the sky is water that does not flow down the street, through the sewer grate, and ultimately into the reservoir, it can’t be rationed back to us for a fee. It is considered theft. Control the water and control the sheep.

    How soon before they tax us for the sunlight falling on our solar cells? The oxygen we breathe? The carbon dioxide we expel?

    1. The People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland already tried to implement a rain tax. It didn’t go over well with the proles.

      1. McC-

        In Charlotte there is a “stormwater runoff” tax added to your water bill on all commercial properties. It’s based on the paved area of the parcel(s). Willing to bet this is SOP in many jurisdictions.

        1. That’s a city actually providing a service with something that requires maintenance. The Maryland bill didn’t provide any benefit, like storm water sewers. It also included more than just paved areas, and applied to every property, regardless of use or zoning.

          1. There’s no benefit. The runoff goes into stormwater sewer system. An oil/water separator system passively segregates both. Both streams are treated and infused into the water supply that is again purified for consumption.

            Charlotte/Mecklenburg County makes out like a bandit. My 3,000 sq ft of asphalt’s share was $25.00/month.

    2. Hydraulic empires go way back in history – resource control. They already want to tax the energy from sunlight if it hits an EVs battery.

  7. We have the technology to turn bugs into a tasty protein source: it’s called a chicken egg.

    Actually, two protein sources. The chicken itself ain’t half bad, either.

    1. You know, I once talked my friend the farmer into processing one of her worn-out laying hens into meat that I could cook at home. (Because: why let the protein go to waste?) Now I know why that isn’t where chicken meat comes from. Maybe I didn’t cook it right, but it was a tender and flavorful as a mouthful of rubber bands. Some chickens are bred for eggs, and some for meat, and some as a compromise. It makes a difference.

      Lathechuck

      1. You discovered the reason for the French invention of ‘Coq au Vin’. It’s a method of slow cooking a tough old chicken (often an old non-productive hen, but usually rooster) in wine in order to render it a little more tender and much more flavorful than – as you so colorfully phrased it: ‘a mouthful of rubber bands’.

        As they say: Necessity is a mother. Or something like that. 😉

  8. There are better and worse ways to do backyard gardening, just as there are better and worse ways to produce beef. If your idea of a backyard garden is to buy a steel raised-bed container, fill it with mined peat from a distant bog, fertilize it with chemicals, and pump water up out of a deep fossil-water aquifer, you’re probably doing it wrong, and justifying the claims of the article. It’s like hand-washing dishes: do you wash each item under flowing water (worse than a dishwasher), or do you fill a pan and use the same quart of water for all of the dishes? On the other hand, if you rearrange the rocks and soil on your land to catch water, compost your leaves, twigs, and kitchen scraps for fertilizer, and get down on your knees to plant, weed, and harvest, the impact will be much less.
    Lathechuck

    1. Rainwater catchment into a 300gal hot-tub tank that is no longer used *saved* my garden during last year’s drought. Supplimented by the output of the basement de-humidifiers. And I can vouch for naturally composted leaves, grass clippings, and kitchen scraps. I get the first two in abundance from my own yard waste, plus from neighbors – once they found out I’d come fetch them rather than their having to take them to a larger recycling center. Makes the most awesome soil amendment and mulch you’ll ever see – and SIGNIFICANTLY improved productivity while reducing watering needs.

  9. EVERYTHING the left does is to increase their power, wealth and control. The few of us they allow to survive, if they succeed in implementing their agenda, will “own nothing and be happy”.

    1. Exactly.
      I get so annoyed with people who should know better saying the Left is stupid or ignorant. Once you realize their only goal is power, everything they do makes sense.

  10. “Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do. Plus, you get strawberries.” – Ron Finley

    Odd how everything comes back to control, not “making things ‘better'”. Almost like control was the whole point…

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