Morning, the weekend is here!
I think this is correct. In the last 10 days Harris hasn’t met with any world leaders, Trump has met with Keir Starmer, who at least in theory should be PM in November, and Zelenskyy, to talk about finding an end to the conflict in Ukraine. I think he’s also met with Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the president of the UAE. What this tells you is that at the very least they think he could win and want to know what his thoughts are, get a face to face and start a relationship. Notable that they don’t need to do this with Harris, because they already know the playbook from the current regime. There’s no expectation that anything she does will rock the boat, because she’s just the face of the operation, not the decision maker, and I’m not referring to Biden there.
If I was the leader of a nation who’ve been obliterated as a people, my country used as a plaything by a foreign intelligence service and must know at this point that I tried, but I have zero chance of winning the war, then someone said they’re going to get this stopped quickly and stop my people dying, I don’t think I’d have a face like a kid who’s been told he can’t have any more pocket money.
But Gaz, this is about bird flu. No it isn’t, not for the general public. It’s about removing people’s ability to be self sufficient, particularly in the form of protein. Eggs are virtually perfect as a food source, they account for around 60% of my food intake, some raw, some cooked. I know you don’t want to believe this, but they really do want you to eat the bugs and fake meat - which also contains the bugs. I don’t have an issue with eating insects, plenty of people do it and they’re a reasonable protein source. I have an issue with the state telling me what I can eat and attempting to coerce me to do as I’m told through propaganda and restriction, particularly because they don’t know better. You should really know by now that the classic food pyramid that state health representatives have been advising since the 50’s is pretty much upside down and you should likely be eating more animal derived products that you are now. You should also know that your standard issue Dr knows virtually nothing about practical nutrition for health, it’s just not a priority in their training, so they will fall back on government info and align with that, despite much of it being out of date/harmful in the hands of the general public. The main factor to all of it though, which overrides the food pyramid is the absolute minimisation of processed food. This is where the fake meat and bugs come in. You cannot patent a chicken, or a cow, or pigs etc. But you can patent your version of fake meat (and also the seeds you grow plants from). It follows then that if you restrict access to real meat either via legal red tape, disincentivizing providing it, or nudging propaganda then you can create a patented product to fill the natural requirement humans have for protein sources, and in a form they’re used to - stuff that looks like traditional real animal products. It’s an attempt to monopolise the food market under the guise of health, animal welfare and environmentalism. Animal welfare and ensuring farmland is truly sustainable are both essential and we have practices already that ensure both, but they are not profitable at scale to the level the food industry would like, so they’ll ban you trying to do it and grind down bugs to put in your food so that when you say you don’t want to eat them, they can tell you you’ve already been eating them for years.
We’ve spoken about this on Horizon Scan before, but have a read of this book - The Eggs Benedict Option - it’ll change the way you look at how food impacts society and has shaped us as civilisations since we stopped hunter gathering. Might make you a bit angry, soz.