Because, as becomes more clear every passing day, somebody damned sure needs to.
Biden Admin Shells Out Taxpayer Dollars On Getting Americans To Eat Trash-Fed Bugs
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began funding research into trash-fed crickets as an alternative to conventional and “unsustainable” protein production in July 2023, a federal grant listing shows.The $130,000 grant supports research that “addresses the need for more cost-efficient production of crickets as a sustainable protein source,” according to the listing. Specifically, the grant will support research into using municipal landfill waste to feed crickets that will later be harvested for human consumption.
USDA awarded the grant to Mighty Cricket Inc., a private firm that sells cricket flour, cricket protein powder and cricket oatmeal. The agency believes that using landfill waste to feed crickets could help the firm “procure cricket feed at lower cost than what is available on the market,” leading to savings that could then be passed along to the consumer.
USDA’s grant listing criticizes traditional animal farming for being too resource-intensive and too harsh on the environment.
The grant listing claims that the demand for bug protein has increased in recent years due to “public awareness of the need for more sustainable food sources.”
Hey, know what’s REALLY “too harsh” on the environment, and totally "unsustainable”? Human life, that’s what. Most especially as anything other than cave-dwelling, pre-agricultural, pre-Neolithic savages with an average life expectancy of no more than, say, 25 years. Well, excepting Rainbow Mafia, “Palestine” terrorist supporting, “evolved” urbanites, I mean. Who definitely, definitely are NOT white males, natch. That’s diff’runt, see.
Rantz: Seattle activists declare a ‘homosexual intifada"
As if “Queers for Palestine” wasn’t enough of a self-parody, keffiyeh-donning gay activists in Seattle have declared a “homosexual intifada.”After another pro-Hamas/anti-Israel march and rally that took over city streets that Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell ceded, the extremists plastered their signage around downtown Seattle. That’s when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with faces covered with keffiyeh while embracing in a kiss. The pink-hued message says “Homo-sexual Intifada” in all caps.
Seattle’s homosexual intifada flyer is a stark oxymoron as brazen as it is ignorant. It signals LGBT Seattle activists are willing to become more violent in support of a terrorist organization that would order them tossed from the highest rooftop the moment they accuse someone of misgendering them.
Or, worse yet, "deadnaming" them—which, as we know, is not merely a trifling insult or dismissal, but in fact is actual, literal genocide.
So what possible solution exists to all this discord, strife, and starkly incompatible belief systems? Is there any answer, any workable compromise, short of…well…you know?
No. No, there is not.
Let’s see. We have a “serious” fiscal, social and national security catastrophe. The fact that untrammeled immigration has risen to become Americans’ number one concern. And the reality that 50% of the nation’s governors have seized the occasion to vault up right up to the line of voiding and replacing America’s “constitutional compact.”
Might it not now be possible “to do (something) that you think you could not do before?” Like go all the way to the Great American Opt-Out?
And if more grist for the partition mill is needed, there’s always:
Ongoing efforts to rig another election
Raids on and prosecution of a former president
Further weaponization of the justice system – including the prosecution of grandmothers for walking through the Capitol complex (as opposed to video-recording sex there) and possible years-long imprisonment for praying in abortion clinics
The creeping federal takeover of the health care and transportation systems
Blatantly unconstitutional actions to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student-loan debt (defying a previous hand slap from the very same Supreme Court)
Systematic currency debasement including a one-year doubling of the deficit that is “without precedent,” thanks largely to the commitment of non-existent dollars to growth-killing initiatives underwriting corrupt crony capitalism
Concomitant devaluation of citizenship by imposing an anti-meritocratic and potentially dangerous DEI regime promoting group identity over hard work, competence and moral behavior
And of particular relevance given the current standoff, disappearing U.S. fossil-fuel dominance via a fanciful, wildly expensive and freedom-grinding Green New Deal agenda. The latest chapter of which is the administration’s sudden, unsupportable liquefied natural gas moratorium – yet another direct blow from an unhinged, imperious central government to the state that produces fully a quarter of the nation’s dry gas. You guessed it: Texas.
(Scuzzbucket Rahm) Emanuel’s Prairie State predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, averred that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free.” Today’s America cannot endure with its venal, reality-rejecting, wealth-sucking woke half permanently dictating to and impermissibly burdening, persecuting and outright endangering the sound, stable and productive cohort.
The opportunity now presents itself for the leaders representing the latter half to go full Rahmbo before it’s too late to save any of us. Take the logical next step: declare not just the “constitutional compact,” but the union dissolved.
Sorry, chum, but I’m afraid that when you take a hard, sober look around lately, you realize it’s already been dissolved, if not in the formal, official sense; ie, what we got ourselves here is a de facto dissolution, not quite de jure. Whodathunkit? As it turns out, the former Union was another one of those bad, super-double-plus-ungood things that was in fact “unsustainable."
"The question turns, Sir, on that poor little thing-the expression, We, the people, instead of the States, of America. I need not take much pains to show that the principles of this system are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous. Is this a monarchy, like England-a compact between prince and people, with checks on the former to secure the liberty of the latter? Is this a Confederacy, like Holland-an association of a number of independent states, each of which retains its individual sovereignty?
It is not a democracy, wherein the people retain all their rights securely. Had these principles been adhered to, we should not have been brought to this alarming transition, from a Confederacy to a consolidated Government. We have no detail of these great considerations, which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind.
Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain. It is radical in this transition; our rights and privileges are endangered, and the sovereignty of the states will be relinquished: And cannot we plainly see that this is actually the case? The rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, all your immunities and franchises, all pretensions to human rights and privileges, are rendered insecure, if not lost, by this change, so loudly talked of by some, and inconsiderately by others. Is this tame relinquishment of rights worthy of freemen?
Is it worthy of that manly fortitude that ought to characterize republicans: It is said eight States have adopted this plan. I declare that if twelve States and a half had adopted it, I would, with manly firmness, and in spite of an erring world, reject it. You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your Government." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/patrick-henrys-speech-in-defense
That grant is chicken feed, and so are crickets. Chickens are a reliable, cheap, and highly effective means of changing crickets into edible protein - and the end product is so much more palatable. And it doesn't cost $130,000 to figure that out.