Insect eating as a dietary option has cropped up yet again. As part of a school assignment, middle school kids learnt that they should eat bugs to save the environment from cows "killing" the planet.

A middle school in Utah recently gave sixth-grade students insects to eat as part of an assignment on climate change, claiming it would save the environment from cows which were „killing the world”. Amanda Wright, the mother of one of the students, said she believed the kids were being subjected to indoctrination.

The climate change assignment instructed sixth-graders to write an argumentative essay, but did not permit students to disagree. The only acceptable answer was that humans should eat insects for their protein instead of cows, which are destroying the ozone layer with methane gas.

However, children are encouraged to eat bugs not only in the United States. As part of a project in the Netherlands last year, people were introduced to meat substitutes as an alternative and kids were offered mealworms to eat. In the video recorded of the campaign event, mealworms and other insects were being distributed at school to 10 to 12-year-old students in the town of Zwolle. The stated goal of the bug-eating campaign was to affect behavioural change in children to accept sustainable food sources.

🇳🇱 WEF agenda in full force: Hundreds of schools in The Netherlands have started a campaign introducing 10-12 y/o kids to mealworms & insects as a ‘sustainable’ meat substitute. The goal is to bring about “behavioral changes through unprejudiced children”
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While children are being encouraged at school to eat insects, the government is in open conflict with farmers and is demanding massive restrictions on nitrogen emissions from businesses in parts of the country. The authorities are ultimately demanding that farmers reduce emissions by up to 95 per cent in some areas.

To achieve these goals, the government has indicated that it is ready to seize up to six hundred farms that are considered to emit the most nitrogen.

However, several international organisations are also promoting the eating of insects. As V4NA reported, the European Union is providing 8.68 million euros in funding for the Sustainable Insect CHAIN (SUSINCHAIN) programme, which aims to use insects to provide Europe with novel sources of protein for both animal feed and human consumption. Through various measures, the project would ensure that by 2025, 20 per cent of animal proteins should be replaced by insect protein in human food and 10 per cent in animal feed.