Media-Governmental Complex: Eat the Bugs, Peasants

They really want you to eat bugs, huh?

Spiked documents the Government-Media Complex's long war on meat, and their determination that you either go vegan or go bug.

In recent years, media messaging has been emphatically bossy about what we should eat. State micromanagement of taste has increased, too. After government intervention, British staples ranging from sticky-toffee pudding to Sugar Puffs have been reformulated beyond recognition. But the anti-meat crusade demands that something far more radical should happen -- it seeks to stigmatise something central to many of our lives, and demands a shift in how we regard nature. As part of this, our media now seek to normalise lab-grown Frankenmeats, and strangest of all, adopt entomophagy -- the practice of eating insects.

So what's behind the war on meat? The apparent justification is the political elite's great preoccupation of our time -- climate change. We're told that rearing livestock for meat is bad for the environment, and that cows are the worst offenders of all. That's the assumption behind hit YouTube videos like Mark Rober's 'Feeding Bill Gates a fake burger (to save the world)', a promotional video for Gates' synthetic-meat investments, which has racked up nearly 46million views...

Much of today's war on meat appears to be driven by venture capitalists, and their client journalists in the media. Ever eager for the next dot-com boom, Silicon Valley has made a bet on lab-grown, synthetic meat...

Client journalists, well-said.

But the oddest spectacle of all is the relentless promotion of entomophagy at the posh end of the media. The posher the paper, the keener they are on normalising bug-eating.

Well, look, it's a bit simpler than that: The Upper Middle Class White Women who essentially control our culture despite their frenzied claims that "The Patriarchy" controls everything have various neuroses and hysterias, and two of them are veganism and "climate change."

These Karens are determined to Mother The World -- especially the childless but determined-to-instill-their-values-in-other-children Wine-Aunts (rather like Reverse Cuckoo Birds, now that I think of it) -- and so they've determined their World-Children must stop being so sinful and stop eating meat.

They're really quite obsessive and deranged on this point, as @OrwellNGoode points out:

posted by Ace at 05:35 PM

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