I been thinking lately about how food will be forced into our diets. Certainly there are novelty flavored crickets, some countries are trying to get kids to eat them in schools but parents have a veto right, and a Canadian firm is putting crickets in a tortilla chip type products. But there is a difference between people knowingly eating bugs, and trying to force it into our diets.
I've never liked monopolies, and of course lately I been focused on the universities and their mandates. Basically students are forced to buy into their meal plans, whether they like the food or not. One student at a University I once attended died from an allergic reaction after his epipen broke from eating their food, after the university failed to grant him an exemption. While university meal plans could be an attack vector to sneak insect proteins into our diets without the students knowing, they tends to "employ" students who would likely tell others about it and the university would likely be met by lawsuits.
However, there is one place where an institution can feed inmates whatever they want so long as it is nutritious. And these institutions probably will not have the debate about whether people can digest chitin [a type of insect protein], or, alternatively, they could be an expirement to demonstrate the ability of humans to digest chitin.
Some may point out that presently insect protein is more expensive than other types of protein. However, you'll also notice that in the US the Biden bureaucracy in the USDA is stopping farmers from getting their heard to the slaughter houses and farmers can't bring them to market. Farming may be left to cull their heard, and future price hikes are expected. Biden may throw billions towards lesser slaughterhouses, but all those billions won't help when the limiting factor is his own agency. The US government is also culling chickens on the basis of pcr test finding bird flu, hence why the price of eggs are up 47%. In Ireland, the climate change chicken littles want to cull [?milk?] cows from farms in the name of controlling global warming and pay farmers some 5000 Euros each, and the guardian reports some 1.3 million cows will have to be culled to meet Joe Biden's climate change goal and some 90 countries are doing what this mental retard wants. Also farmers are losing their arable land, so the friends of the politicians can install solar panels both in the United States (notice DNR activities during the Trump years) and the world. Pennsylvania is set to lose 80k acreas of farmland to solar by that magical year, 2030...and there is always concerns that the heavy metals in solar panels could leech into the soil-but that is off topic here. I am sure that when food prices start really going up and famine is common place, Biden will Blame's "the Putin price hike", the droughts occurring all over the world, or blame "climate change" or "Global warming"" for the droughts that cause dthe famine. But all the evidence points That Joe Biden has, on a global scale, turned an abundance into a scarcity and failed to consider the fallout from a year when Nature isn't kind to our food producers. And in the end, the WEF's eat ze bugs 2030 agenda will be advanced. Do you really think we had fair elections in 2020?
So the fact that insect protein prices may be relatively high at the moment, could change due to the "Biden Price hike", Additionally, as more and more insect plants are developed on scale, and as better methods are learned, it will likely become cheaper. Furthermore, what stops a company from selling a product at a discount for a variety of reasons-whether it is an endowment by a WEF globalist, trying to get their foot in the door in an emerging market, or market research? In many medical clinical trials, it can be hard to recruit enough participants. But insects are "food". And so long as food is nutritious ( , Gates v. Huibregtse, 69 Fed. Appx. 326 (7th Cir. 2003) ) and edible ( https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/11-2811/11-2811-2012-03-27.pdf?ts=1411041322 ) the wardon or sheriff can feed an inmate anything.
Now clearly some people may say that insects are not edible due to the chitin. Let's consider two things. Often the office of the department of corrections and the sheriff [and to add more distinction jailors] are arms of the state, so they might be entitled to sovereign immunity. Secondly the officers involved may be entitled qualified immunity because they didn't know chitin was or could be dangerous and there may not be anything similar in case law. The second consideration is there is on going research on how animals digest chitin, and in animal models they have found two enzymes that may allow other animals to digest insects or otherwise treat chitin overload. So inmates could get their insect protein embedded in normal looking food [to keep them ignorant] with literally piss and vinegar. In pigs and chickens the enzymes to digest chitin are acetic acid-ChiA and Urea Chia. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5855584/ To be honest, I am not sure how those enzymes would be administered but I could take an educated guess. Gulp.
Certainly some may say the cop cliche, if you do the crime you do the time. But you don't have to do any crime to end up in jail or prison, it is a reality of American life. Long before you go to jail, although you can adopt a religion in jail, you should find yourself a religion. It doesn't have to be Buddhist or a 7th day Adventist to obtain a vegetarian or vegan diet. To avoid the bugs and still have meat, you might be thinking about adopting Judaism (Kosher) or Islam (Halal) but even that isn't safe. A certain type of locust is kosher and halal, and there is debate about what kind of locust are kosher/halal. Google, meanwhile, is pushing results that claiming that since Mohammad, PBUH, ate locust that crickets are halal. This idea google is promoting seems to me contradictory to my understanding of the history of the restrictions on eating insects, but if a jailer or warden researchers the matter he will likely take google as the authority of your religion and this is bad-pray he doesn't get qualified immunity if he forces you to eat the bugs as a matter of Google's doctrine of Islam. Legally though, you may have sincerely religious beliefs and practices-that don't have to follow orthodoxy or doctrine-subject to the test found in turner v safely. See Africa v. Pennsylvania, 662 F.2d 1025 (3d Cir. 1981) and Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987) . Even a Do as thou will doctrine has permitted a vegetarian diet. see Koger v. Bryan, 523 F.3d 789 (7th Cir. 2008). And if you do find a religion, remember to sincerely practice it. Just remember, and be ready to assert, that your religious practices do not have to be orthodox to be protected under the constitution.
Keeping what you need to know as applied to prison may still be useful in a university environment. I don't trust University bureaucrats as far as superman could chuck em. It will likely be very difficult to escape a mandatory meal plan, and remember they would rather let students die,than allow them to get off of these evil things, to take their money. If you are on a university meal plan, I would recommend finding a way out of them because university bureaucrats as shady as [cuss word].
