A bugger of a proclamation, from the mouths of top bug men!

Speaking of religious issues, according to a Breitbart report, some of the worlds’s top bug advocates, invoking the sacred UN as a planetary authority, are demanding that we learn to eat bugs:

…head of entomology Marcel Dicke knows that changing Westerners’ mindset will take more than disguising a worm in chocolate.

“The problem is here,” he tells AFP, pointing at his head while examining an exhibition featuring a handful of the world’s more than 1,200 edible insect species including worms, gnats, wasps, termites and beetles.

Three species: meal worms, buffalo worms and grasshoppers, are cultivated by three farmers in the Netherlands for a small but growing group of adventurous foodies.

“People think it is something dirty. It generates a Fear Factor response,” citing the reality series that tests competitors’ toughness by feeding them live insects.

Dicke said Westerners had no choice but to shed their bug bias, with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation predicting there will be nine billion people on the planet by 2050 and agricultural land already under pressure.

Ve haf no choice!

That is the Royal Proclamation, and so, in the name of the Holy Planet Mother Gaia, we must comply!

In fact, royal proclamations ordering human subjects to go on the Dicke diet are nothing new, and I was reminded of one of my all time favorite movie scenes.

By my imperial order, YOU WILL WATCH IT!

I honor you Herr Doktor Dicke!


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5 responses to “A bugger of a proclamation, from the mouths of top bug men!”

  1. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    See, they could be correct about running out of food.
    I mean, we can’t use gen-modified, high-yield foods (frankenfood), we have to turn our food into fuel and besides, dictators like famines to keep the people in line.
    So the UN is doing its best to make that prophecy come true.

  2. Eric Scheie Avatar

    Are there no human corpses?

  3. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    You mean cross Malthus with Huitzilopochtli?
    Interesting idea.

  4. rhhardin Avatar

    A diet of worms was bad news for Luther.

  5. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    Umm… let’s not go there. The reason “A Modest Proposal” was so successful is that it was (taboos aside) actually sensible in a really disgusting way. (Yeah, I’ve got the taboo, bigtime.)
    Google Heinlen on cannibalism and click the second link (Stranger in a Strange Land). I’m with Jubal on the subject. And I hope I’d try bugs before Soylent Green. Though I suspect I’d just quietly starve, instead.