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Subject: Re: NPR and Eating the Bugs
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:21:34 -0400
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On 2025-04-27 2:59 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 4/27/2025 1:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> Two headlines from NPR illustrating exactly why they need to be 
>> defunded of
>> all taxpayer dollars.
>>
>> In 2019, the proposed government-enforced bug diet was all the rage 
>> among the
>> Left. By 2025, the very thing which NPR promoted and advocated has 
>> somehow
>> morphed into an unhinged "right-wing racist conspiracy theory".
>>
>> NPR: Look at all these tasty bugs for you to eat!
>>
>> NORMALS: I will not be eating ze bugs.
>>
>> NPR: No one's suggesting you eat bugs, you racist whack-job!
>>
>>
>> Companies Face an Uphill Battle Trying to Get Americans to Eat Bugs
>> December 24, 2019. 5:05 AM ET
>>
>>
>> https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/791030172/companies-face-an-uphill- 
>> battle-trying-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs
>>
>>
>> The Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Eating Bugs is About as Racist 
>> as You
>> Think
>> March 6, 2024. 3:00 AM ET
>>
>> https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197955874/code-switch-bug- 
>> eating-03-06-2024
> 
> I do vaguely remember being offered 'chevre' (goat).  But bugs? ...no.

I don't know if edible bugs was a product ready for the supermarkets and 
restaurants but I *do* know that our federal government spent millions 
subsidizing a startup that was supposed to produce edible bugs. The 
startup went belly up before it had a market-ready product.
> 
> Meanwhile, the facts may be even less savory:
> 
> 
> https://www.cbsnews.com/gooddaysacramento/news/bugs-rodent-hair-and- 
> poop-how-much-is-legally-allowed-in-the-food-you-eat-every-day/
> 
> 


-- 
Rhino