The headline is a PsyOp all on its own. You didn’t know you were not allowed to eat crickets and powdered mealworm larvae before. Rejoice in a freedom won:
Europeans now also allowed to eat cricket powder and small mealworms
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The European Commission declares new insect products safe for consumption. So from Tuesday, powdered house crickets and the small mealworm will also be allowed in food.
Back in February last year, the European Union announced that three species of insects would henceforth be allowed for human consumption: the migratory spider cricket, the yellow mealworm and the house cricket. Now the European Commission is adding several more insect products to the authorised list…
Insects, they tell us, are “highly nutritious” in a vague non-specific way that does not list a single nutrient which we can’t get enough of at the moment. Instead the main, “unique” selling point is that if we eat crickets we might slow storms eighty years from now:
Insects are also seen as part of the transition to a more environmentally friendly and plant-based food system. The creatures emit less greenhouse gases, have a lot less water and arable land, and convert food into protein much more efficiently than traditional sources of meat.
Ponder that this is yet another vested industry — dependent on the broken climate models. Another cheer squad for carbon taxes.
Cricket Flour could turn up anywhere:
European Union Approves Cricket Powder As Component Of Flour-Based Foods Despite ‘Inconclusive’ Allergy Data
Daily Wire
Cricket powder will now be permitted in a number of food products, such as multigrain bread, crackers, cereal bars, biscuits, beer-like beverages, chocolates, sauces, whey powder, soups, and other items “intended for the general population,” according to the new regulation.
Get ready: It doesn’t need to have specific labeling because we aren’t absolutely sure if it will kill people yet:
Because evidence linking cricket powder to allergic reactions is “inconclusive,” the European Commission decided that no specific labeling requirements should be included in the EU list of authorized novel foods, according to the regulation.
The New York Allergy and Sinus Centers has nevertheless found that “several allergic reactions to crickets” have been reported in the past two years. Individuals allergic to shellfish such as shrimp, crabs, and lobsters “may develop an allergy to crickets” because the species share many of the same proteins.
While insects don’t need a “special label” they do need to be listed somewhere in 4 point font on ingredients lists:
However, the European Commission insists that ingredients must always be properly declared on packaging labels. Manufacturers must always indicate which type of insect it concerns. After all, some people may be allergic to insect food, although this needs to be investigated further. This would mainly concern consumers who are also allergic to crustaceans, molluscs or house dust mites.
On the downside, if you have a prawn or dust-mite allergy you may now need an epipen since prawns and dust-mites didn’t use to suddenly appear in chips and crackers. And hardly anyone sold prawn-flavoured-beer or dust-mite-in-dips. On the upside, if you don’t die, after a few painful years you may have done your own oral desensitization program which normally costs $3,000 from an immunologist.
Of course, we could all just share photos and boycott them all. Vote with your wallet.
“It’s better for the environment” chirps the local Woolworths Australian variety. At least this is not hiding in a cake mix.
The globalists ever so crappy,
Say eat ze bugs and be happy,
But Jiminy Cricket,
Their taste is so wicked,
That we all end up wearing a nappy.
–Ruairi
h/t John Connor, David Maddison.
Photo from Thailand Unique Cricket Flour Shop