Re: NPR and Eating the Bugs

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.
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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".
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NPR: Look at all these tasty bugs for you to eat!
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NORMALS: I will not be eating ze bugs.
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NPR: No one's suggesting you eat bugs, you racist whack-job!
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Companies Face an Uphill Battle Trying to Get Americans to Eat Bugs
December 24, 2019. 5:05 AM ET
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https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/791030172/companies-face-an-uphill- battle-trying-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs
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The Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Eating Bugs is About as Racist as You
Think
March 6, 2024. 3:00 AM ET
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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/
 

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Rhino