The Future of Food
The Corbett Report, Episode 460
Food weaponization might sound like a wild conspiracy theory, but there is a lot of history and a lot of evidence to think about. The idea is not new. Attacking armies have always known that blockading a city will starve out the residents. The English created the conditions that led to the Irish potato famine. The Soviets took food from the Ukrainians to force through a campaign to collectivize agriculture in the USSR and silence the peasants who were rebelling against that policy. Up to ten million Ukrainians died.
Today, governments all over the world are making it harder to produce food. Their excuse for this is the very flimsy climate change narrative. In place of real food, we are being pressured to eat lab-grown “food” and “plant-based meat” along the line of Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meat. Food scientists are working on a process to convert plastic into protein (I thought the fast-food purveyors had already done that) and speak in glowing terms of Star Trekkian ideas like 3D-printed food. Just speak clearly to the food synthesizer and, after a few seconds of futuristic sound effects, there’s dinner. If that becomes the norm and if there’s a Scotty up there somewhere, please beam me up.
Meanwhile there has been a suspicious rash of mishaps at food production facilities around the U.S. in recent years. It gets even more suspicious when you see that sixty-five international policymakers, academics, businesses and others got together in 2015 to simulate how the world would respond to a future food crisis. They specifically looked at what might happen in the 2020s with toppling governments, extreme weather events and spiking prices.
The Corbett Report video brings up a local news story about high school students “spontaneously requesting” cricket powder dumplings in their school lunch. Oh, look at that. My BS-o-meter just slammed hard to the deep end and started smoking. I wish they’d quit doing that. I’ve lost more meters that way. As we’ve found our way into a world of words like “misinformation” and “malinformation,” let me pour a little more fuel on the fire. The only way high school students would request bugs in this country is after a long, tedious process of miseducation or maleducation. Even then, I’ll bet most of them are not down with the idea of eating crickets.
The good news is that this agenda is not going too well. There have been massive protests, especially in Europe. The legacy media that promote the agenda are dying, as more and more people turn to independent online sources of information. This video packs a lot of information into about thirty-nine minutes and comes with a transcript for those few, hardy souls who prefer reading. The thumb is UP.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Fall 2024
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