Britain: Government Funded Group Explores Using Psychological Propaganda to Make People Eat Bugs
August 28th, 2024Via: Modernity News:
A UK government-backed group is exploring how to use “nudge” tactics (psychological propaganda) to convince the population to start eating insects.
The National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC), which is funded by UK Research and Innovation, a government quango, is trying to sell the public on “meat alternatives” in the name of reducing carbon emissions as part of the UK’s net zero agenda.
Prof Anwesha Sarkar, from the University of Leeds, where the research centre will be based, told the Telegraph: “We want to make alternative proteins mainstream for a more sustainable planet.”
That diet includes “mince created from crickets” and various insects ground up into something that “looks like a burger.”
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Knowing that the public has an innate revulsion to eating insects, added to studies that show consuming bugs can be toxic because they contain parasites, the group effectively admits it will have to brainwash people to buy them.
That will take the form of the government and industry using “nudging techniques, or public information campaigns” in order “to persuade people to swap their steak for a plant-based or lab-grown alternative, such as nudging techniques, or public information campaigns.”
The UK government’s infamous ‘nudge unit’ was previously used to inflate fear amongst the public during the COVID pandemic to force them into compliance, a process that was deemed “grossly unethical” by psychologists.
