I want a feature-length magazine article on the behind-the-scenes PR campaign that's been generating all the 'hey guys you should eat insects' headlines across many different outlets.

— Jonah Bennett 🌐 (@BennettJonah) September 29, 2019

Me too. That’s been so ubiquitous lately that it has to be some PR push — but in the service of what? I can understand the drive for plant-based poison food. Those items are actually widely available on the market and can be bought in many places today.

But the insect propaganda has fascinated me lately because I can’t tell where it’s being pushed from and why it’s so pervasive.

My best guess so far is that it’s to offer a false dichotomy between the desired choice of people eating plant-based poison food (fake burgers and the like) or the insect alternative, which no one will choose. It’s a method of getting people to make the choice you want them to make to avoid the “progressives” forcing a truly worse choice, which is slurping insect slurry out of glass bottles in your pod.