Crickets are now being served as food in 1,000 Australian schools

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You thought they were joking with all this talk about eating insects and bugs? Well, you were wrong.

In fact, very cleverly they are starting early by pushing the insects on kids and school children. They know that it will be very hard to get adults to like eating insects, so instead they are trying to brainwash young children into doing it instead.

1000 schools in Australia have started offering children chips containing cricked powder at the school canteens. Delicious!

Why?

Because they are ”healthy” for the children and also ”eco-friendly” and good for the planet, that’s why! Nothing to do with you will eat the bugs and you will be happy. No, this is good for you!

The Daily Telegraph interviewed school children eating these cricket chips, and when they asked the children if they knew it was made from insects, they didn’t know. This is how they do it. They cannot get adults to eat this stuff, so instead they just offer it to kids as tasty snacks and they go ahead and eat it without even knowing what it is.

”Chips are great aren’t they, and these chips are even better, because I think they are better for you, did you know that? Yeah, that way you know, mum and dad might let you have more chips. Good stuff” the interviewer said.

But this isn’t only in Australia.

Children at four primary schools aged 5 to 11 in Wales were offered insects to eat as part of a project to see how children’s appetites are for ”alternative protein” like crickets and mealworms (in case you don’t know, mealworms is bird feed).

But not only that, by feeding children insects, they hope that they can persuade parents to follow as well…

”Many children have the power of pester, so in some cases can be great agents of dietary change within the family” said Verity Jones from the University of the West of England in Bristol and is involved in the study.

So there you have it. They want to use children, brainwash them into thinking eating bugs as a good thing, and then get them to convince their parents to eat the bugs as well.

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