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On a proposal from the European Commission, experts from the Member States have agreed to allow dried yellow mealworms to enter the European market as a food product.
Belgium has served as a sandbox for the introduction of insects into diets, and Colruyt Group invested in the Brussels cricket bar company Kriket to develop and sell their snack bars made with cricket flour last year.
In 2014, the Belgian food safety agency AFSCA issued official advice on the food safety aspects of insects destined for human consumption, saying “In the search for alternative dietary protein sources, insects appear to offer great potential.”
Mealworms are larvae of the meal beetle and are rich in fat, fibre and protein. They’ll be available as a snack or as powder that can be used for making biscuits, smoothies or pasta products, the Commission said on Tuesday.
the european agricultural strategy ‘from farm to fork’ identifies insects as an alternative source of protein that can help make the food system more sustainable.]
The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the European Green Deal aiming to make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.
Food systems cannot be resilient to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic if they are not sustainable. We need to redesign our food systems which today account for nearly one-third of global GHG emissions, consume large amounts of natural resources, result in biodiversity loss and negative health impacts (due to both under- and over-nutrition) and do not allow fair economic returns and livelihoods for all actors, in particular for primary producers.
The Farm to Fork Strategy aims to accelerate our transition to a sustainable food system
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé and partner to David Rockefeller, observed that, “Who controls the food supply controls the people.” In 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations launched the $424 million Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) promising to double crop productivity and boost incomes for 30 million small farmers by 2020 while cutting food insecurity in half.
Gates Ag One’s aim is to take control over the genetic diversity of this planet,” agricultural freedom activist Dr. Vandana Shiva told me. According to Shiva, Gates “continues to subvert and sabotage both farmers’ seed sovereignty and the seed sovereignty of countries. ‘Gates Ag One’ is a clear declaration of his intent to create an empire over life and biodiversity, over food and farming, and over our sustenance.” In the process, says Shiva, “Gates is financing infernal Frankenstein experiments that defile God’s creation
Citizens, governments and farm organizations have written many laws and governments have adopted international treaties on biodiversity protection, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol to the CBD. By conning government officials, manipulating intellectual property law and rewriting seed regulations, Gates has been able to bypass or trample these statutes and treaties, and to evade the multilateral governance structures that governments put in place to prevent global corporations from hijacking the planet’s biodiversity and the seed commonwealth of peasants and farmers
Gene drives are at the cutting edge of genetic engineering, synthetic biology and gene editing. They are the tools of choice for eugenicists and for those seeking to build the technocratic “transhuman future” championed by Gates and his Silicon Valley cronies
Scientists use CRISPR technology to edit genes into an organism’s chromosomes to reprogram DNA to switch off the normal rules of genetic inheritance and “drive” the artificially introduced trait through an entire population and spread it to all future generations. Their capacity to permanently alter the genome of an entire species makes gene drives the biological instrument of ultimate power.
Government trying to create food shortages... Biden administration announced on Wednesday, 21 April, it would expand a program paying farmers to leave land fallow
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
a reply to: Thoughtful1
This is a Brazilian company but the head office is located in Greeley Colorado. The cyber attack will affect Australia and North American, U.S. and Canada. Beef and pork. I wonder how secure the major chicken and sea food processors systems are.
I can't even imagine the panic. The timing is interesting since this occured over memorial day when most people would be distracted.
Herein are my thoughts and commander’s guidance regarding effects-based operations (EBO). This article is designed to provide the US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) staff with clear guidance and a new direction on how EBO will be addressed in joint doctrine and used in joint training, concept development, and experimentation. I am convinced that the various interpretations of EBO have caused confusion throughout the joint force and among our multinational partners that we must correct. It is my view that EBO has been misapplied and overextended to the point that it actually hinders rather than helps joint operations.
The Way Ahead
The underlying principles associated with EBO, ONA, and SoSA are fundamentally flawed and must be removed from our lexicon, training, and operations. EBO thinking, as the Israelis found, is an intellectual “Maginot Line” around which the enemy can maneuver. Effective immediately, USJFCOM will no longer use, sponsor, or export the terms and concepts related to EBO, ONA, and SoSA in our training, doctrine development, and support of JPME.
USJFCOM Commander’s Guidance for Effects-based Operations [PDF] (2008).
Our goal is to develop a joint force that acts in uncertainty and thrives in chaos through a common understanding of the essence and nature of the problem and the purpose of the operation. In practice, this means that leaders must ensure their vision and intent are understood and their subordinates act decisively in concert with that vision and intent. As Clausewitz stated, the “trinity of chance, uncertainty, and friction [will] continue to characterize war and will make anticipation of even the first order consequences of military action highly conjectural.” Taking a “systems approach to warfare where second and third-order consequences of actions can be predicted, let along managed,” is thus an illusion.
― General James N. Mattis, USMC, Commander, US Joint Forces Command.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: CthruU
How can it be that every government on earth wants to harm their citizens????? Eventually.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Governments are composed of corrupt people. Donald Trump brought with him a massive groundswell of populism and the ruling class could not accept that. In fact, they chose to punish it.
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
a reply to: butcherguy
The next weapon has been launched.
JBS meat packing plant has suffered a cyber attack. It is global. Now starts the panic buying again. Repeat to the TP battle, gasoline battle but now it is the food supply!
www.wsj.com...>articles>meatpacker-jbs-hit-by-cy
Pilgrim’s, the world’s largest chicken producer, said it would provide further updates to workers at its Nacogdoches facility via text message.
JBS, the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, announced Sunday that the attack was affecting some of its servers in North America and Australia.
Reeling from revelations that the Biden administration shut down a State Department investigation into the origins of COVID-19, the Biden team is now trying to cover up their cover-up. Let’s examine what they were covering up in the first place, why it matters, and how the administration is now pretending to take action while not actually doing anything.
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Even if, by some miracle, the truth came out, and it turned out China was directly responsible, what would Biden do? I’m pretty convinced the answer is nothing. How exposed, how vulnerable, how unsafe we all are in the hands of this administration.
originally posted by: Fowlerstoad
a reply to: tanstaafl
Buy local, and *cough* learn to have a few chickens yourself, and / or hunt / trap too, just in case.
originally posted by: EdisonintheFM
a reply to: chr0naut
Maybe he spent time with Biden by the pool. Joe is very open about his lust for underage children.
12 min update:
The WEF's promised "cyberpandemic" has hit our food supply, as the biggest animal protein producer in the world, JBS, stopped operations worldwide after a cyberattack. The situation may escalate quickly as live animals are involved, and require feed. But more importantly, Is this just a scripted event to move us to the WEF's desired post-animal economy, and to hide a global shortage of grains?
originally posted by: CthruU
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: CthruU
How can it be that every government on earth wants to harm their citizens????? Eventually.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Governments are composed of corrupt people. Donald Trump brought with him a massive groundswell of populism and the ruling class could not accept that. In fact, they chose to punish it.
Well thanks for pointing out the obvious to my obviously rhetorical question.