Now you will eat ze bugs and ze people - New York Times' appeal for cannibalism

The New York Times have gone off the deep end.

When I saw the New York Times article, here - I couldn’t really believe it. The timing of this article couldn’t be worse with a food shortage crisis looming, but I suppose I will give them points for creativity for masking the real message inside a review article. They discuss a book called “A certain hunger” which was inspired by a fantasy from author Chelsea G. Summers, where she describes fantasizing about killing her boyfriend and eating his liver. Well-adjusted, I’m sure.

I’m noticing that all of these things mentioned in the article have something in common - it’s always women cannibalizing others, with ‘Lapvona’ being the only entry mentioned in the article being the exception, where a man who cannibalizes another human being out of desperation, despite his religion commanding vegetarianism. I don’t quite know why, except to say that maybe this is some convoluted appeal to girl power? Not sure what else the writer, Alex Beggs, could’ve been going for with this one.

I’m also noticing that there is a witch hunt out for Alex Beggs on Twitter at this very moment. So much so that she has protected her tweets at this time. I would love to ask her the intent personally, rather than contribute to any witch hunt, but you have to admit the timing is very poor from a societal standpoint. It’s great timing, however, if you wish to be an incendiary figure at whom people can direct their indignation. After all, clicks are clicks, at the end of the day.

What I find reckless about this whole subject is the fact that this will likely cause problems for food vendors down the road. There are already xenophobic rumors and stereotypes about Chinese food made in the United States containing cats and dogs that have persisted for decades at this point. I think the health inspectors would’ve caught someone, by now. Either way, this leads us down a road we don’t need to go down because it’ll do nothing but destroy small businesses. We know that by example since Starbucks got caught using bugs in some of their products and they’re still going strong, for the most part. But then, I guess in the world Klaus Schwab wants, using bugs is a desirable feature of the menu.

I came up from nominal means, myself, so I find it a little insulting when the elites want to foist alternative proteins onto the “unwashed masses” while they continue to dine on the finest food life has to offer. Since they’ve already eaten bugs, I suppose James Corden and Nicole Kidman can move on to a Bob burger ( made out of Bob, not the TV show ‘Bob’s Burgers’ ). I wish them well and I hope they enjoy it, because I’ll not be capitulating to what some Bond Villain-looking asshole thinks I should be eating.

All this is concerning considering that countries including Canada and The Netherlands have started to crack down on farmers’ fertilizer usage and have begun to require them to reduce nitrogen and ammonia emissions. Add to that the number of food processing plants being burned to the ground this year alone, and you have a recipe for disaster. How do I know? Reuters fact-checked it here - so I know generally when they, or Snopes, or Politifact, or any fact-checker you’ll see used to attempt to dissuade you from engaging with social media posts about a contentious subject, then that subject holds considerable water. You can find your own examples of their spurious claims with about 30 seconds of due diligence.

I don’t see any of this leading anywhere good, though I won’t condemn either an article writer, or the progenitors of media that use cannibalism as their subject matter. It just seems like a touchy subject when many people are concerned about whether they’re going to be looking at empty shelves this winter. Joe Biden’s dark winter will come true, a year late and for a different reason, I suppose.

I did reach out for comment from Beggs about her reasoning for the article, but as of writing this I have received no reply.

In closing, if we’re going to normalize cannibalism, start with Klaus Schwab. Serve him with sauerkraut.