You Eat Bugs—They Eat Steak

“Bugs are the future,” they say — but the future they’re designing is malnourished lab sludge, and insect paste will send you to an early grave. Wake up. Eat real.

Nicole Kidman; a secret insect eater? - watch her chomp bugs and compare crickets to 'a hairy nut'—I wonder how much she got to do this? https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/food/articles/2018/january/30/whats-bugging-nicole-kidman/

For years now, powerful voices have been whispering — and now shouting — that the future of food lies not in the fields or farms, but in the insect farms and sterile labs of technocrats [1]. Under the banner of climate responsibility and sustainability, the public is being groomed for a post-agricultural diet: one made of crickets, mealworms, and synthetic meat grown in bioreactors [2]. This isn't science fiction. It's already being trialled in school cafeterias, showcased on talk shows, and written into the policy frameworks of governments influenced by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Bill Gates, and a cast of global "stakeholders" [3] who speak in code about saving the planet while engineering the decline of humanity.

We're told this is progress. That it's good for us. That it's good for the planet. The sales pitch goes like this: insects and lab-grown meat use less land, less water, and generate fewer emissions than traditional livestock [4]. They promise efficiency, rich nutrients, engineered health, and a cruelty-free utopia [5]. Cows belch methane, they say, but crickets don’t [6]. Slaughterhouses are barbaric, but petri dishes are clean [7]. Bugs are protein-packed and full of minerals [8]. Synthetic meat can be tailored for perfection [9].

What could possibly go wrong?

Everything. Absolutely everything. Because beneath the propaganda lies a dietary vision so malnourished, so unnatural, and so biologically bankrupt that it threatens not only our physical health but the very essence of what it means to be human.

Insects do contain protein, yes — but so does leather. What bugs do not contain is the full symphony of nutrients required to build and sustain a healthy human being. They lack vitamin C, essential for immune function and tissue repair [10]. They’re low in calcium, necessary for strong bones and teeth [11]. They are deficient in DHA [12] and EPA [13], the fatty acids critical for brain development and cognition [14]. They don’t provide digestible carbohydrates, the fundamental energy source for every human cell [15]. And then there’s chitin — the indigestible shell material that may interfere with mineral absorption and trigger inflammation in the gut [16]. A high-insect diet doesn’t build strength; it builds malabsorption, gut damage, and immune dysfunction.

Synthetic meat doesn’t fare any better. Grown from animal stem cells, often nourished by fetal bovine serum — a substance harvested from unborn cow fetuses [17] — and structured with synthetic scaffolds made from bioengineered polymers or plant-based gels [18], it is an abomination of food science. This lab-grown substance is the child of biotech corporations, not nature, and its production relies on highly sensitive, sterile, and resource-hungry conditions [19]. Behind the slick marketing, it remains a highly processed, energy-intensive product that is often tainted with hormonal residues, antibiotics, and synthetic growth factors [20]. These are not incidental byproducts — they are integral to the unnatural acceleration of tissue growth in a petri dish.

Worse still, synthetic meat lacks everything that makes real meat nourishing. It contains no natural enzymes to aid digestion [21], no bioavailable cofactors that work in harmony with the body’s systems [22], and none of the complex nutrient interplay found in traditionally raised animals [23]. Its amino acid profile may be adjustable, but without the fat-soluble vitamins, the natural connective tissue, and the biological wisdom embedded in real food [24], it is lifeless. It is to food what a mannequin is to motherhood — a cold imitation of the real thing. It may look the part, and it may even fool the tongue for a moment, but it cannot give life. It does not build strength. It does not heal. It does not nourish [25]. It is an edible illusion, designed not to feed you, but to feed an agenda.

And the tragedy compounds when we consider children — the future victims of this engineered diet. Imagine a child weaned from breastmilk, which itself may already be compromised by a mother consuming bugs and bioreactor meat [26], and raised entirely on this artificial fare. From the earliest months, their body would be deprived of the essential biological signals and nutrients that come from real, living food [27]. Their growth would falter; not just in height, but in bone density, muscle development, and neural wiring [28]. Their minds would dim as the critical building blocks for cognition — DHA, EPA, iron, choline — remained absent or bio-unavailable [29]. Instead of vibrant curiosity and mental agility, there would be fog, fatigue, and confusion. Deprived of essential fats, minerals, and vitamins, their cognitive development would be stunted in ways that no tablet or tutoring could reverse.

Their bones would be brittle, failing to reach the mineral density necessary for a healthy adulthood [30]. Their immune systems would be underpowered, leaving them vulnerable to viruses, bacteria, and inflammatory conditions from a young age [31]. Puberty might not come at all for some; for others, it might arrive distorted by hormonal imbalances caused by nutrient gaps and synthetic residues [32]. Infertility wouldn’t just loom — it would become a statistical certainty in many [33]. Mental illness would not just haunt — it would flourish. Depression, anxiety, and neurological instability would become the norm, not the exception [34]. These children might reach adolescence in form, but not in function. They would not rise to their potential; they would drift — physically fragile, emotionally muted, and intellectually dulled. Their spirits, once meant to soar, would be tethered to the cold arithmetic of engineered survival. Their futures, chemically diminished, would be a shadow of what could have been.

And make no mistake — this isn't speculation. The medical literature is unequivocal: chronic nutrient deficiency is a precursor to cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, compromised immunity, reproductive failure, and early mortality [35][36]. Malnutrition in early life can shorten telomeres, impair organ development, and set in motion a cascade of irreversible damage [37][38]. A population raised on bugs and synthetic sludge wouldn’t die in dramatic headlines. They would wither — not with a bang, but with a whisper. Quietly. Predictably. And exactly as planned.

This is not about health. Nor is it about the planet. The architects of this future — the technocrats, billionaires, climate ideologues, and unelected policy czars — are not driven by nutrition. They are driven by control. While they dine on wagyu and fish flown in from halfway across the globe, they tell the rest of us to nibble on worm paste [39]. They fly private to climate summits while preaching zero emissions [40]. They buy up farmland while lobbying against beef [41]. They patent synthetic food systems while regulating natural agriculture into the dust [42].

This is about control. Real food means independence. If you grow your own, raise your own, source locally, you are hard to manipulate [43]. But if your sustenance depends on a lab, on a programmable food voucher, on synthetic feedstock shipped in from distant factories, then your life — and your children’s lives — are no longer your own [44].

The push to eat bugs is psychological conditioning. It is ritualized submission. It’s designed to make you accept less [45]. Less pleasure. Less tradition. Less identity. Less humanity. Eat insects long enough and you start to believe you deserve nothing better. It is not nourishment; it is reprogramming. A new caste system where the elite dine in secret and the masses are fed according to algorithms [46]. It’s not about sustainability. It’s about dependency.

History has always shown that food is power — and those who control it wield absolute dominion. Stalin weaponized famine, orchestrating the starvation of millions in Ukraine through forced collectivization and grain requisition [47]. Mao imposed draconian rationing and agricultural reforms that led to the Great Famine, killing tens of millions [48]. In North Korea, the regime maintains its grip through tightly controlled food distribution, rewarding loyalty and punishing dissent with slow, deliberate starvation [49]. Today’s tyranny wears a more polished face. It no longer marches in with guns and flags, but with climate slogans and sustainability badges. It arrives not in tanks, but in policy memos stamped by the UN, the WEF, and billionaire-backed think tanks [50]. But the strategy remains unchanged. When you control the food supply, you control thought, behaviour, reproduction — even hope. Hunger becomes a leash. Rationing becomes a form of obedience training. And compliance becomes the price of survival.

If this agenda succeeds, we will raise a generation on synthetic starvation — not by accident, but by design. Their bodies will shrink, not only in stature but in internal vitality. Their skeletal frames will tell the story of mineral depletion [51]. Their muscles, once meant to climb trees, build homes, and carry children of their own, will atrophy from inadequate protein structures and the absence of animal-sourced nutrition. [52] Their minds will dull, unable to maintain the sharpness, memory, and cognitive firepower that comes from real fats and vital micronutrients [53]. Where once there was creative ambition and curiosity, there will be fatigue, confusion, and dependence. Their spirits — once unbreakable and wild — will crack under the weight of biochemical malnourishment and engineered hopelessness [54]. These will be children who grow up learning not to aspire, but to endure. And their lives will end early. Not in fire and revolution, but in the quiet entropy of managed decay [55]. The system will call it equity. The media will call it progress. But history will call it what it is: a deliberate regression of the human species.

We must resist. Not with slogans, but with soil. With truth. With ancestral knowledge. With our hands in the earth and our minds in the real [56]. With the foods that made us — and can remake us. Know your farmers. Build food security through local relationships and traditional practices [57]. Raise your children to understand that food is not a commodity of technocrats, but a covenant with life itself [58]. Show them that what is grown with sunlight and care will always triumph over what is brewed in vats of patents and control.

Because when we surrender real food, we are not just giving up nutrition. We are surrendering sovereignty [59]. We are abandoning the temple of the body. We are ceding the foundations of our mind and memory, of love, and of liberty. And we are placing the next generation into a trap from which many will never escape [60].

We cannot let that happen.

We must reclaim the table, the soil, and the sacred act of nourishment — before it’s too late.

Are Bugs Safe to Eat? Not According to This Study

A comprehensive 2019 parasitological study of 300 edible insect farms across Central Europe revealed a sobering truth: over 80% were contaminated with parasites — and nearly a third of those posed a potential risk to humans. From Cryptosporidium to tapeworm cysticercoids, researchers found a disturbing array of pathogens in mealworms, crickets, cockroaches, and locusts — especially in insects imported from Asia and Africa or raised in unsanitary conditions. Despite being championed as “sustainable protein,” these insects may serve as potent vectors of disease, particularly to children, pets, and immunocompromised individuals. The authors conclude that edible insects are a neglected reservoir of parasitic threat, and their widespread consumption poses a serious and underappreciated public health risk.

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