Kentucky Fried Crickets

Eat bugs or die? [Altucher Confidential] August 23, 2022 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Whether it’s the economy, the planet, or our biological health, the answer is the same: Restore the natural cycles. And get rid of bigness. [Hero_Image] Kentucky Fried Crickets By Chris Campbell [Chris Campbell] CHRIS CAMPBELL Kentucky Fried Crickets. If I was a fan of the “eat bugs to save the planet movement” that’s probably what I would call my future food truck. My logo would be the face of a cricket with a monocle, or something funny like that. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of “Eat Bugs or Die.” Crickets won’t save us. The entire premise is that agriculture is the most destructive industry on Earth, therefore the solution is to further centralize the food supply, ridding ourselves once-and-for-all of the backwards farmer. That’s why the future of food has everything to do with a battle waging around the world between a decentralized scattering of small and mid-size sustainable farms vs. highly-processed and highly-patented foodstuffs. (Like bugs and fake meat.) As far as solutions go… I’m skeptical this is one of them. How to Make Bugs a Thing Of course, getting people to eat bugs is going to be pretty easy. As seen on Twitter: → You get celebrities to eat bugs on TV and give it a trendy name like “microlivestock.” (Check. [Nicole Kidman ate bugs in front of a camera in this bizarre video]( → Shame meat eaters for “killing the planet.” (Check.) → Slowly make meat prohibitively expensive for most people. (Some ranchers predict beef to rise to $50 per pound.) → Make bug-based foods cheap through subsidies ([Canada’s already subsidizing cricket plants]( → Inject a bunch of novelty and “innovation” (“Look! This cheese is made of larva milk! Wow!) → And, for those who think they’re getting a “healthier” option, give them organic and “free-range” bugs and charge them more for essentially the same thing. But is it actually a solution? One thing you never really see is our “democratic” leaders asking the farmers what they think. Attention! Before You Read Any Further… [Click here for more...]( Hey, it’s James. Before you read any further in today’s issue, an urgent situation needs your immediate attention. If you don’t plan on claiming this upgrade to your Altucher’s Investment Network subscription, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity. Right now is your chance to grab one of the biggest (and most valuable) upgrades our company has ever made to a newsletter. I’m taking Altucher’s Investment Network to an entirely new level and I’d hate to see you left behind. [To see how to claim your upgrade, just click here now.]( The Problem of Bigness Will Harris of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia sometimes airs his opinions [on his blog](. He’s a good follow if you’re into that kind of stuff. (Joel Salatin, too.) “We live in a time where most of the food we have access to is controlled by a very small number of multinational corporations,” says Harris. “This infographic showcases this small group and the scope of their control.” [IMG 1] For the record, this isn’t a result of the ‘free market.’ It is, as said yesterday, a result of the government openly and systematically driving out family farms in favor of bigness — the opposite of a free market. What worries Harris about our so-called environmental “solutions” is that they ignore that all complex systems — the climate included — go through cycles. (This is also one criticism thrown at the Federal Reserve, which disrupts the natural cycles of the economy, causing no shortage of chaos along the way.) “The technocrat's answer to all of our food production problems,” says Harris, “has been the integration of linear, siloed, reductionist-science-based scalable technology. This approach has proven to be highly effective for complicated linear systems (think computers and machines). It has also been proven that these technologies are equally disastrous when applied to complex cyclable systems (think farm, eco-system, your body).” Rather than solving the problems of the environment, Harris writes, they only create new, and bigger, problems. And one major reason for this is the inherent fragility of bigness… The Bigger You Are… In 1957, Leopold Kohr, an economist and social scientist, wrote a book called The Breakdown of Nations. The main idea in the book is laid out in the first paragraph: “there seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness.” Korh lays out the case that bigness is the “one and only problem permeating all creation.” Wherever something is wrong, he says, something is too big: “If the stars in the sky or the atoms of uranium disintegrate in spontaneous explosion, it is not because their substance has lost its balance. It is because matter has attempted to expand beyond the impassable barriers set to every accumulation. Their mass has become too big. If the human body becomes diseased, it is, as in cancer, because a cell, or a group of cells, has begun to outgrow its allotted narrow limits. And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutality, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. It is because human beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into overconcentrated social units such as mobs, unions, cartels, or great powers. That is when they begin to slide into uncontrollable catastrophe.” The bug industry is just another form of Big Food injecting more bigness into the system. It’s a way to centralize food production into the hands of fewer and fewer players, under the guise of saving the planet. Will it help the planet? Probably not. Will it make us healthier? Probably not. Will it raise our standards of living? Probably not. Harris says the real solution is simple. Whether it’s the economy, the planet, or our biological health, the answer is the same: Restore the natural cycles. And get rid of bigness. [Ed. note: Of course, bigness isn’t going anywhere any time soon. In fact, our colleague Jim Rickards recently blew the lid off of the next mutant form of Bigness: a “spyware” technology that aims to track your every move. 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