The Post-Partisan Emporium

Is Eating Bugs Really About Saving the Planet? Marie Hawthorne Governments around the world seem intent on destroying farms. As  protests rage in the Netherlands , one of the world’s largest food exporters,  the rest of us have to wonder, what are we expected to eat? If governments around the world are trying to make farming financially impossible, what do they expect us to eat instead? Insects. The United Nations and the World Economic Forum  want us to eat insects.  They’ve been talking about this for a while now, and with the farm-destroying land grabs currently underway, the food most of us are used to will be harder and harder to come by. Got bugs? In 2013, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization published  a 200-page report  touting insects as an underutilized food source.  Since then, groups such as the Gates Foundation  and the World Economic Forum have been trying  to normalize eating insects . The WEF has published many articles...

Grams of protein in context One of the most meaningless stats bantered about by sophists is “grams of protein”. Why? Because proteins from different sources of food have different amino acid compositions and different bio-availability. So arguing that 100 grams of kidney beans has the same amount of protein as 100 grams of beef is not only not true, but is also quite asinine. Though, no matter how many times you point this out whenever you see popular memes littered around the internet, food religious zealots seem to even more fervently stick to their cultist beliefs. Regardless, for shits and giggles, let’s deconstruct the frequently posted 100 grams of beef versus 100 grams of kidney bean meme. PROTEIN To begin with, per nutritondata.self.com , 100 grams of cooked kidney beans has only 8.6 grams of protein . Whereas 100 grams of a beef, rib, eye has 26.2 grams of protein So you need to eat 300 grams of beans to get a similar weight in grams of protein. But again, “grams of protein” i...

Class Formation National Globalism and Global Nationalism John Carter J. C. Park Can you taste it? The blood in the water. All over the world, Behemoth is bleeding from a thousand tiny cuts.  In Sri Lanka, in the Netherlands, in Ecuador, in Panama, and in a dozen other countries, the populace is in revolt . The tree planted by decades of mismanagement is bearing its poisonous fruit, and people are gagging as they sample it. The WHO announces the simian PridePox as a new global health emergency, and globalpop rolls its eyes. Trust in the regime institutions used to massage public opinion has plummeted, and with it the regime’s ability to massage. The talking heads and credentialed experts scream with increasing hysteria about climate emergencies, domestic Not Who We Are assaults to Our Values Democracy, or the threat posed to the Liberal World Order by the Hitler du Jour, but they scream impotently into a hurricane that is far louder, faster, vaster, and more powerful than they coul...

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