On Scientists’ Suggesting Cannibalism: ‘In Praise of Braising Aphids’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 27, 2024 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . In Praise of Braising Aphids “New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often—sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice.” __—NewScientist Magazine, February 2024 When feasting on our kin is pushed this way Enveloped in a ray of golden light In phrases warped to make what’s wrong seem right— Then maybe Beelzebub has seized the day. When dining on mankind is sold as sane And swathed in slickest whispers of compassion To sugarcoat a sick and savage custom— Then maybe Satan’s revving up to reign. When morals melt in pots that steam on stoves, When dark and barbarous deeds feed gut and mind, When greedy fiends insist they’re wined and dined By those whose banquets boast the unwashed droves, It’s time to dodge this ghoulish drool-and-crunch, It’s time to sauté slugs and flambé fleas, It’s time for roasting locusts. Boil those bees Before you’re stuffed and trussed for Sunday lunch! When flesh of folk is pitched as fine and tasty Shunning crickets seems a smidgen hasty. . . Susan Jarvis Bryant has poetry published on Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Light, Sparks of Calliope, and Expansive Poetry Online. She also has poetry published in TRINACRIA, Beth Houston’s Extreme Formal Poems anthology, and in Openings (anthologies of poems by Open University Poets in the UK). Susan is the winner of the 2020 International SCP Poetry Competition, and has been nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. NOTE TO READERS: If you enjoyed this poem or other content, please consider making a donation to the Society of Classical Poets. The Society of Classical Poets does not endorse any views expressed in individual poems or commentary. Trending now: 31 Responses Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 New Scientist is just a trendy pop-cultural magazine for affluent middle-aged liberals. They’ll print anything that gets them attention as being cutting-edge or with-it. A similar publication is Psychology Today, or Radical Teacher. Questioning cultural taboos is par for the course with them. They know that the average person is sickened by the thought of eating human flesh, so naturally they go out of their way to find reasons to defend it, just as they might for eating insects or something else that offends traditional sensibilities. These crappy, sophomoric magazines are predictable for their mindless loyalty to whatever is trendy and click-baitish. Reply Warren Bonham February 28, 2024 I almost wish I hadn’t read this (although it was very enjoyable). I really liked the phrase “morals melting in a pot”. It feels like the heat is being turned up leading to a faster pace of moral decay with this being a sad but very apt example. Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Warren, thank you for reading, and sort of enjoying this horribly unpalatable poem. The article caught my eye because I’ve brushed off the normalizing of horrors in the past… I’m preparing my mind for battle. Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 Joe, believe it or not NewScientist was disappointed with the two Climategate investigations. They wanted an extensive look into the obvious shortcomings of the so-called science. They knew that the two inquiries were whitewashing the lies. On July 10, 2010, their editorial said: Russell’s team left other stones unturned. They decided against detailed analysis of all the emails in the public domain. They examined just three instances of possible abuse of peer review, and just two cases when CRU researchers may have abused their roles as authors of IPCC reports. There were others. They have not studied hundreds of thousands more unpublished emails from the CRU. Surely openness would require their release. All this, plus the failure to investigate whether emails were deleted to prevent their release under freedom of information laws, makes it harder to accept Russell’s conclusion that the “rigour and honesty” of the scientists concerned “are not in doubt”. And: But what happened to intellectual candour – especially in conceding the shortcomings of these inquiries and discussing the way that science is done. Without candour, public trust in climate science cannot be restored, nor should it be. How the mighty have fallen. Reply Mia February 28, 2024 Interesting that the New Scientist was sold to the owner of the Daily Mail about two years ago.. it must surely be why it is going for the more compassionate and honourable articles… Thank you Susan for your astounding and outstanding poem Mike Bryant February 29, 2024 Wow, Mia, that is amazing about the Daily Mail! It looks like many newspapers and magazines are honorably and compassionately leading us along! Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Thank you for your comment, Joe. I agree with your closing statement, “These crappy, sophomoric magazines are predictable for their mindless loyalty to whatever is trendy and click-baitish.” I do, however, believe things have got a lot more sinister in the past few years. Things we laughed at because they were so utterly ridiculous just a short while ago, are now stealing headlines and ruining lives. Our society is so depraved, I’m asking myself just how low can we go? Let’s hope it’s not as low as my poem implies… but sadly and worryingly, who knows? And let’s not forget, it was stupid rags like ‘NewScientist’ that forewarned us. Reply Joshua C. Frank February 28, 2024 Great poem, Susan! Sadly, I’m not the least bit surprised by this in a culture that pushes abortion as “health care.” In fact, I’m surprised this didn’t happen earlier. Our culture has become so evil that when Soylent Green is made of people, its main ingredient will be a selling point rather than a secret. Still, I love the point that the last Current Thing they pushed (eating bugs) seems like a haven of sanity after this. Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Thank you for reading and commenting, Josh. We live in an increasingly shocking society. All we can do is hang on to reality in the true sense of the word, with all the mental strength we can muster. Reply Roy Eugene Peterson February 28, 2024 As an advisor in Vietnam, when I had to eat in a native village, I told the officers I was advising not to tell me what I was eating until afterwards. Of course, I would have recognized eating raw monkey brains with the top of the skull cut off and the monkey head resting on the plate, but then I was in the Delta where there were no monkeys, at least to my knowledge. I did eat cooked chicken feet that were considered a delicacy with a texture like popcorn and I learned to appreciate Nuoc mam that was fish sauce from a barrel of rotting fish. They usually served officers the clearest sauce from the top of the barrel rated number one. The rating was from one (at the top) to number ten (at the bottom of the barrel). That is also how they rated people. Your poem sent me back in time in my mind to such delicacies in foreign places. I am appalled at the continued slide down the scale of barbarism in the modern world with this latest revelation that seems to be adding to those things not only considered taboo in the past but raising the possibility and the specter of increased descension into hell on earth. Thank you for the great poem and calling such atrocious articles to our attention, Reply Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 Dan Cragg wrote an article on his Vietnam experiences, where he also mentions the tendency to rate things by the number one-to-ten system. He quotes a Vietnamese bar girl commenting on a niggardly soldier who wouldn’t buy her a drink: “You numbah-ten cheap Charlie!” Reply Roy Eugene Peterson February 28, 2024 Exactly! Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Roy, I’m glad you appreciate my poem, but more than that, thank you so very much for your telling us of your truly interesting experiences with different foods. You are a bold man when it comes to sampling food that may freak the squeamish. I love haggis, so fully appreciate the acquired tastes of some of the stranger dishes on our planet. I do, however, know where to draw the line when it comes to ingredients for a stew. Reply Cheryl Corey February 28, 2024 I’m off topic here, Susan, but I hope you’re not affected by current raging Texas wildfires. Reply Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 Hey Cheryl, Susan is unavailable for a bit, but I have just looked at the map and it looks like we are fine. We have a norther blowing in, so I feel certain we’ll get some smoke. Thanks for your concern. Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Yes, thank you for your concern, Cheryl. It’s much appreciated. Reply Norma Pain February 28, 2024 Who knows what extreme hunger will cause a person to do?! Absolutely horrific subject but great poem. Thank you Susan….. I think! Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Norma, you have made me laugh… there is no need to thank me for getting too gruesome to be entertaining. I just thought I ought to alert those who are tired of being shocked by the new normal. The tone of the article makes it sound as if a recipe book were imminent. Norma, thank you! Reply Paul A. Freeman February 28, 2024 Interesting poem. I’m pretty sure the taboo against cannibalism is still intact, though. There’s a new film version of the film ‘Alive’ (1993), about the Argentinian rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes and who had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The film’s called ‘Society of the Snow’ (2023) and it’s very powerful, especially the scenes where religiosity and practicality clash / converge. Definitely worth watching, and very moving. As for the eating of insects, which are classified as arthropods by those darned scientists (just like crabs and lobsters are arthropods), in landlocked African countries the idea of eating a crustacean brings on just as much knee-jerk hysteria as the idea of eating juicy seasonal grasshoppers does to the average North American. As long as no one’s being forced to eat these high protein snacks, why get upset? Reply Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 I’m pretty sure no one is upset, Paul. In fact Susan said those insects are looking better and better. It is kind of weird, though, that Bill Gates is buying up large farms all over the USA… and the farmers are protesting all over Europe, it would really be crazy to think food shortages are in our future, right? Of course, if, through no fault of our betters, food shortages DO happen… isn’t it sweet that they are getting us mentally prepared for the crickets and black ants that their factories are already producing? Ya just gotta love those guys. Reply Paul Freeman February 29, 2024 This has nothing to do with my comment, Mike, and I’m not qualified to comment on your allegations. Mike Bryant February 29, 2024 I didn’t make any allegations, Paul. Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Paul, thank you for reading my poem. The circumstances of the film you mention are dire. I am certainly not in a position to judge the decisions made. Viktor Frankl in ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ (one of my favourite books) gave an account of prisoners in a concentration camp during WWII. I remember a scene in which prisoners slept on heaps of freshly deceased bodies for warmth without a thought for their action. They needed to do it to survive… what may the next step have been, I ask myself? The thing is, we are being asked to view heinous acts with an open mind… a mind that is pushed to accept increasingly bizarre and wicked acts in the name of “the new normal.” As you know, I don’t agree with transgender surgery on minors… it’s an irreversible experiment that is barbaric and too many are pushing the sick ideology that leads to it – beginning with the pronoun lie. Incrementally, we are assisting those who are removing our freedoms. Take a look at Oxford, Bristol, Canterbury and Sheffield in the UK. They have all put forward plans to introduce elements of a 15-minute city – where the government controls where you go, when you go, and how often you go. Paul, your closing observation makes sense to me. It’s all about being forced. And we are being forced… forced to take Covid shots, forced to call our children by their preferred pronouns, forced to pay for a greener planet, forced to pay for bogus wars designed to line fat-cats’ pockets, forced to accept 15- minute cities, and those who don’t agree are punished by the authorities. The more you agree with your government, the less likely you are to be punished… but, where do you draw your line? That’s the real question. I believe by the time many draw theirs, they won’t have a voice to let anyone know about it, which is why I call out ills now, before it’s too late. Reply Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 Why don’t you eat them, Paul, instead of surreptitiously nudging the rest of us to do so? Reply Brian A. Yapko February 28, 2024 Susan, what a great poem on a terrifying subject. This is not commercial Soylent Green cannibalism and it’s not murderously-vindictive Sweeney Todd cannibalism. This is worse. It’s satanic cannibalism — the first whispers of the Devil himself telling a gullible humanity “taste, eat, it’s good for you, it’s good for the planet.” It’s the evil that can only come from the godless idea that human beings are basically an assortment of molecules with no intrinsic worth because… science. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a big believer in science IF IT IS KEPT RIGHT-SIZED. I love MRI machines and the discovery of quasars. But science which is not subject to a higher ethical standard — God would help — easily degenerates into “what-if” evil. Once we get into atheist territory in which a human life has no meaning so you might as well eat it, we truly go beyond science and atheism into the territory of the devil. We’re already there but this just gives one more example of showing how truly depraved human society has become and how when science is worshiped for its own sake it leads to eugenics and holocausts and all kinds of Brave New World atrocities. If human composting is on the table, why not put humans themselves on the table? I’m glad you wrote this poem and presented the issue but I’m dismayed by it as well. I’m not eating people and I’m not eating bugs. I’m a human man created in God’s image and my dignity matters. Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Brian, thank you very much for reading this poem of grim and gruesome subject matter. Your comment is spot on, and I couldn’t agree with you more. Today’s “science” and transhumanism has dehumanized us to such an extent, we are reduced to “clumps of cells”, “hackable animals”, and plant fodder when dead. We are no longer sovereign, spiritual souls with a conscience and an ability to make our own choices. We are one huge, human experiment for those who have the power and the money to determine our future… a future that’s looking increasingly grim for anyone not going along with the fiendish flow. Brian, I’m with you: “I’m not eating people and I’m not eating bugs. I’m a human [woman] created in God’s image and my dignity matters.” Thank you! Reply Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 CRICKET ALERT !!!!! Cricket flour is now showing up in snack foods. If you do not want to eat crickets… better check the ingredients of everything you eat from now on. If a friend serves cheese puffs… maybe you should just say no… https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-snack-foods-now-made-with-crickets-as-primary-ingredient Reply Joshua C. Frank February 28, 2024 Don’t worry, I gave up processed foods a long time ago. This kind of thing was one of the reasons. Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Yes Mike, bugs are in our grub… check out the ingredients, carefully! Reply Mark Stellinga March 1, 2024 Susan, nice job! An absolutely disgusting subject – so delightfully addressed. 🙂 Left me assuming I’d somehow stumbled onto that ‘other’ SCP site – ‘Strictly Conservative Poetry.com’. Regardless, it’s a great little piece. This will help me focus much harder on what I eat, and that’s a good thing. I’m not a small person. “Hi” to Mike – Reply Susan Jarvis Bryant March 2, 2024 Mark, you’re right, it is a disgusting subject… another one being “normalized” for society’s future consumption (pun intended). Mark, as ever, thank you for your seal of approval… and yes, check those ingredients… they really are putting bugs in our food! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 New Scientist is just a trendy pop-cultural magazine for affluent middle-aged liberals. They’ll print anything that gets them attention as being cutting-edge or with-it. A similar publication is Psychology Today, or Radical Teacher. Questioning cultural taboos is par for the course with them. They know that the average person is sickened by the thought of eating human flesh, so naturally they go out of their way to find reasons to defend it, just as they might for eating insects or something else that offends traditional sensibilities. These crappy, sophomoric magazines are predictable for their mindless loyalty to whatever is trendy and click-baitish. Reply
Warren Bonham February 28, 2024 I almost wish I hadn’t read this (although it was very enjoyable). I really liked the phrase “morals melting in a pot”. It feels like the heat is being turned up leading to a faster pace of moral decay with this being a sad but very apt example. Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Warren, thank you for reading, and sort of enjoying this horribly unpalatable poem. The article caught my eye because I’ve brushed off the normalizing of horrors in the past… I’m preparing my mind for battle.
Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 Joe, believe it or not NewScientist was disappointed with the two Climategate investigations. They wanted an extensive look into the obvious shortcomings of the so-called science. They knew that the two inquiries were whitewashing the lies. On July 10, 2010, their editorial said: Russell’s team left other stones unturned. They decided against detailed analysis of all the emails in the public domain. They examined just three instances of possible abuse of peer review, and just two cases when CRU researchers may have abused their roles as authors of IPCC reports. There were others. They have not studied hundreds of thousands more unpublished emails from the CRU. Surely openness would require their release. All this, plus the failure to investigate whether emails were deleted to prevent their release under freedom of information laws, makes it harder to accept Russell’s conclusion that the “rigour and honesty” of the scientists concerned “are not in doubt”. And: But what happened to intellectual candour – especially in conceding the shortcomings of these inquiries and discussing the way that science is done. Without candour, public trust in climate science cannot be restored, nor should it be. How the mighty have fallen. Reply
Mia February 28, 2024 Interesting that the New Scientist was sold to the owner of the Daily Mail about two years ago.. it must surely be why it is going for the more compassionate and honourable articles… Thank you Susan for your astounding and outstanding poem
Mike Bryant February 29, 2024 Wow, Mia, that is amazing about the Daily Mail! It looks like many newspapers and magazines are honorably and compassionately leading us along!
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Thank you for your comment, Joe. I agree with your closing statement, “These crappy, sophomoric magazines are predictable for their mindless loyalty to whatever is trendy and click-baitish.” I do, however, believe things have got a lot more sinister in the past few years. Things we laughed at because they were so utterly ridiculous just a short while ago, are now stealing headlines and ruining lives. Our society is so depraved, I’m asking myself just how low can we go? Let’s hope it’s not as low as my poem implies… but sadly and worryingly, who knows? And let’s not forget, it was stupid rags like ‘NewScientist’ that forewarned us. Reply
Joshua C. Frank February 28, 2024 Great poem, Susan! Sadly, I’m not the least bit surprised by this in a culture that pushes abortion as “health care.” In fact, I’m surprised this didn’t happen earlier. Our culture has become so evil that when Soylent Green is made of people, its main ingredient will be a selling point rather than a secret. Still, I love the point that the last Current Thing they pushed (eating bugs) seems like a haven of sanity after this. Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Thank you for reading and commenting, Josh. We live in an increasingly shocking society. All we can do is hang on to reality in the true sense of the word, with all the mental strength we can muster. Reply
Roy Eugene Peterson February 28, 2024 As an advisor in Vietnam, when I had to eat in a native village, I told the officers I was advising not to tell me what I was eating until afterwards. Of course, I would have recognized eating raw monkey brains with the top of the skull cut off and the monkey head resting on the plate, but then I was in the Delta where there were no monkeys, at least to my knowledge. I did eat cooked chicken feet that were considered a delicacy with a texture like popcorn and I learned to appreciate Nuoc mam that was fish sauce from a barrel of rotting fish. They usually served officers the clearest sauce from the top of the barrel rated number one. The rating was from one (at the top) to number ten (at the bottom of the barrel). That is also how they rated people. Your poem sent me back in time in my mind to such delicacies in foreign places. I am appalled at the continued slide down the scale of barbarism in the modern world with this latest revelation that seems to be adding to those things not only considered taboo in the past but raising the possibility and the specter of increased descension into hell on earth. Thank you for the great poem and calling such atrocious articles to our attention, Reply
Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 Dan Cragg wrote an article on his Vietnam experiences, where he also mentions the tendency to rate things by the number one-to-ten system. He quotes a Vietnamese bar girl commenting on a niggardly soldier who wouldn’t buy her a drink: “You numbah-ten cheap Charlie!” Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Roy, I’m glad you appreciate my poem, but more than that, thank you so very much for your telling us of your truly interesting experiences with different foods. You are a bold man when it comes to sampling food that may freak the squeamish. I love haggis, so fully appreciate the acquired tastes of some of the stranger dishes on our planet. I do, however, know where to draw the line when it comes to ingredients for a stew. Reply
Cheryl Corey February 28, 2024 I’m off topic here, Susan, but I hope you’re not affected by current raging Texas wildfires. Reply
Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 Hey Cheryl, Susan is unavailable for a bit, but I have just looked at the map and it looks like we are fine. We have a norther blowing in, so I feel certain we’ll get some smoke. Thanks for your concern. Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Yes, thank you for your concern, Cheryl. It’s much appreciated. Reply
Norma Pain February 28, 2024 Who knows what extreme hunger will cause a person to do?! Absolutely horrific subject but great poem. Thank you Susan….. I think! Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Norma, you have made me laugh… there is no need to thank me for getting too gruesome to be entertaining. I just thought I ought to alert those who are tired of being shocked by the new normal. The tone of the article makes it sound as if a recipe book were imminent. Norma, thank you! Reply
Paul A. Freeman February 28, 2024 Interesting poem. I’m pretty sure the taboo against cannibalism is still intact, though. There’s a new film version of the film ‘Alive’ (1993), about the Argentinian rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes and who had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The film’s called ‘Society of the Snow’ (2023) and it’s very powerful, especially the scenes where religiosity and practicality clash / converge. Definitely worth watching, and very moving. As for the eating of insects, which are classified as arthropods by those darned scientists (just like crabs and lobsters are arthropods), in landlocked African countries the idea of eating a crustacean brings on just as much knee-jerk hysteria as the idea of eating juicy seasonal grasshoppers does to the average North American. As long as no one’s being forced to eat these high protein snacks, why get upset? Reply
Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 I’m pretty sure no one is upset, Paul. In fact Susan said those insects are looking better and better. It is kind of weird, though, that Bill Gates is buying up large farms all over the USA… and the farmers are protesting all over Europe, it would really be crazy to think food shortages are in our future, right? Of course, if, through no fault of our betters, food shortages DO happen… isn’t it sweet that they are getting us mentally prepared for the crickets and black ants that their factories are already producing? Ya just gotta love those guys. Reply
Paul Freeman February 29, 2024 This has nothing to do with my comment, Mike, and I’m not qualified to comment on your allegations.
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Paul, thank you for reading my poem. The circumstances of the film you mention are dire. I am certainly not in a position to judge the decisions made. Viktor Frankl in ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ (one of my favourite books) gave an account of prisoners in a concentration camp during WWII. I remember a scene in which prisoners slept on heaps of freshly deceased bodies for warmth without a thought for their action. They needed to do it to survive… what may the next step have been, I ask myself? The thing is, we are being asked to view heinous acts with an open mind… a mind that is pushed to accept increasingly bizarre and wicked acts in the name of “the new normal.” As you know, I don’t agree with transgender surgery on minors… it’s an irreversible experiment that is barbaric and too many are pushing the sick ideology that leads to it – beginning with the pronoun lie. Incrementally, we are assisting those who are removing our freedoms. Take a look at Oxford, Bristol, Canterbury and Sheffield in the UK. They have all put forward plans to introduce elements of a 15-minute city – where the government controls where you go, when you go, and how often you go. Paul, your closing observation makes sense to me. It’s all about being forced. And we are being forced… forced to take Covid shots, forced to call our children by their preferred pronouns, forced to pay for a greener planet, forced to pay for bogus wars designed to line fat-cats’ pockets, forced to accept 15- minute cities, and those who don’t agree are punished by the authorities. The more you agree with your government, the less likely you are to be punished… but, where do you draw your line? That’s the real question. I believe by the time many draw theirs, they won’t have a voice to let anyone know about it, which is why I call out ills now, before it’s too late. Reply
Joseph S. Salemi February 28, 2024 Why don’t you eat them, Paul, instead of surreptitiously nudging the rest of us to do so? Reply
Brian A. Yapko February 28, 2024 Susan, what a great poem on a terrifying subject. This is not commercial Soylent Green cannibalism and it’s not murderously-vindictive Sweeney Todd cannibalism. This is worse. It’s satanic cannibalism — the first whispers of the Devil himself telling a gullible humanity “taste, eat, it’s good for you, it’s good for the planet.” It’s the evil that can only come from the godless idea that human beings are basically an assortment of molecules with no intrinsic worth because… science. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a big believer in science IF IT IS KEPT RIGHT-SIZED. I love MRI machines and the discovery of quasars. But science which is not subject to a higher ethical standard — God would help — easily degenerates into “what-if” evil. Once we get into atheist territory in which a human life has no meaning so you might as well eat it, we truly go beyond science and atheism into the territory of the devil. We’re already there but this just gives one more example of showing how truly depraved human society has become and how when science is worshiped for its own sake it leads to eugenics and holocausts and all kinds of Brave New World atrocities. If human composting is on the table, why not put humans themselves on the table? I’m glad you wrote this poem and presented the issue but I’m dismayed by it as well. I’m not eating people and I’m not eating bugs. I’m a human man created in God’s image and my dignity matters. Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Brian, thank you very much for reading this poem of grim and gruesome subject matter. Your comment is spot on, and I couldn’t agree with you more. Today’s “science” and transhumanism has dehumanized us to such an extent, we are reduced to “clumps of cells”, “hackable animals”, and plant fodder when dead. We are no longer sovereign, spiritual souls with a conscience and an ability to make our own choices. We are one huge, human experiment for those who have the power and the money to determine our future… a future that’s looking increasingly grim for anyone not going along with the fiendish flow. Brian, I’m with you: “I’m not eating people and I’m not eating bugs. I’m a human [woman] created in God’s image and my dignity matters.” Thank you! Reply
Mike Bryant February 28, 2024 CRICKET ALERT !!!!! Cricket flour is now showing up in snack foods. If you do not want to eat crickets… better check the ingredients of everything you eat from now on. If a friend serves cheese puffs… maybe you should just say no… https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-snack-foods-now-made-with-crickets-as-primary-ingredient Reply
Joshua C. Frank February 28, 2024 Don’t worry, I gave up processed foods a long time ago. This kind of thing was one of the reasons. Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant February 29, 2024 Yes Mike, bugs are in our grub… check out the ingredients, carefully! Reply
Mark Stellinga March 1, 2024 Susan, nice job! An absolutely disgusting subject – so delightfully addressed. 🙂 Left me assuming I’d somehow stumbled onto that ‘other’ SCP site – ‘Strictly Conservative Poetry.com’. Regardless, it’s a great little piece. This will help me focus much harder on what I eat, and that’s a good thing. I’m not a small person. “Hi” to Mike – Reply
Susan Jarvis Bryant March 2, 2024 Mark, you’re right, it is a disgusting subject… another one being “normalized” for society’s future consumption (pun intended). Mark, as ever, thank you for your seal of approval… and yes, check those ingredients… they really are putting bugs in our food! Reply
