Kofi Annan: Americans Should Eat Insects to Fight Global Warming

[singular_me]

now I have to say that read many serious articles claiming that insects offer lots of proteins... but since the climate change is a hoax, I find it really funny.
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Former UN Chief: Americans Should Eat Insects to Fight Global Warming
Friday 8th May 2015

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‘Marie Antoinette may or may not have said “Let them eat cake” at the outset of the French Revolution 200-plus years ago, but former United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan just made Marie Antoinette’s alleged dictate seem downright magnanimous. Pointing his finger at America and other Western democracies, Annan this week said Americans should begin eating insects to do our part to address the fictitious global warming crisis.

Complaining about a “rapidly growing middle class,” Annan told the Guardian that more people being able to afford beef and chicken is causing “a major threat to the climate” because raising livestock produces global warming emissions. “There are alternative sources of protein,” said Annan. “Insects have a very good conversion rate from feed to meat.”

Annan criticized people in Western democracies for not embracing insect food sources linked to poverty in developing nations.’

http://spectator.org/articles/62639/former-un-chief-americans-should-eat-insects-fight-global-warming

[midnight rambler]

Mmmm! Yummy cockroaches!

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[midnight rambler]

Only hateful bigots are unwilling to embrace divershitty.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Insect_food_stall.JPG

[Dogman]

Looks like the Thai rice bugs that they were crazy about, I used to collect them under the flight line flood lights during my shifts at night and sell them downtown. Not bad really when ground up with green mango and Thai peppers and eaten with sticky rice balls, tasty.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7542&stc=1

;)

[BrewTech]

LOL @ "rapidly growing middle class"...

In the US??

What planet is he living on?

[Dogman]

LOL @ "rapidly growing middle class"...

In the US??

What planet is he living on?

Ya !

That one made me wonder also, mork from ork!

Sorta reminds me of a member or two here!

;)

[Ares]

That sack of monkey shit can eat insects like the rest of his brethren in Africa. I'll stick to my cow, chicken, pigs, fish, and deer.

[midnight rambler]

That sack of monkey shit can eat insects like the rest of his brethren in Africa. I'll stick to my cow, chicken, pigs, fish, and deer.

Then obviously you're a hateful bigot.

[EE_]

LOL @ "rapidly growing middle class"...

In the US??

What planet is he living on?

I'm not sure who you're thinking of, but I don't think it's the middle class anymore.

This is the only middle class I know of, that is rapidly growing...

Most Millionaires Think They Are Middle Class, CNBC Poll Shows

Billionaire David Tepper once called himself a "middle-class dad trapped in a rich man's body." Most millionaires, it turns out, have similar feelings of wealth denial.

A majority of millionaires polled describe themselves as middle class or upper middle class despite being among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, according to the results of the third CNBC Millionaire Survey.

Fully 44 percent described themselves as middle class, and 40 percent said they were upper middle class. Only 4 percent described themselves as wealthy or rich, and 5 percent described themselves as upper class.

Even those Americans worth $5 million or more—among the wealthiest 5 percent—still think of themselves as more middle class than wealthy. According to the survey, 49 percent of those worth $5 million or more define themselves as upper middle class, while 23 percent define themselves as middle class. Only 11 percent of the $5-million-plus millionaires define themselves as rich or wealthy.

Wealth experts say the findings stem partly from the psychology of today's wealthy and partly from the growing economic divide between the super rich and the merely wealthy.

Studies show that more than three-quarters of today's millionaires made their money themselves and started out in the middle class or lower. Wealth experts say these self-made millionaires may still see themselves as having middle-class values of hard work, humility and family despite their increased wealth.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/most-millionaires-think-they-are-middle-class-cnbc-poll-shows-n354766

[Serpo]

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you first

[Ares]

Then obviously you're a hateful bigot.

Please forgive my white privilege. /sarcasm

[Neuro]

I'm not sure who you're thinking of, but I don't think it's the middle class anymore.

This is the only middle class I know of, that is rapidly growing...

Most Millionaires Think They Are Middle Class, CNBC Poll Shows

Billionaire David Tepper once called himself a "middle-class dad trapped in a rich man's body." Most millionaires, it turns out, have similar feelings of wealth denial.

A majority of millionaires polled describe themselves as middle class or upper middle class despite being among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, according to the results of the third CNBC Millionaire Survey.

Fully 44 percent described themselves as middle class, and 40 percent said they were upper middle class. Only 4 percent described themselves as wealthy or rich, and 5 percent described themselves as upper class.

Even those Americans worth $5 million or more—among the wealthiest 5 percent—still think of themselves as more middle class than wealthy. According to the survey, 49 percent of those worth $5 million or more define themselves as upper middle class, while 23 percent define themselves as middle class. Only 11 percent of the $5-million-plus millionaires define themselves as rich or wealthy.

Wealth experts say the findings stem partly from the psychology of today's wealthy and partly from the growing economic divide between the super rich and the merely wealthy.

Studies show that more than three-quarters of today's millionaires made their money themselves and started out in the middle class or lower. Wealth experts say these self-made millionaires may still see themselves as having middle-class values of hard work, humility and family despite their increased wealth.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/most-millionaires-think-they-are-middle-class-cnbc-poll-shows-n354766
I don't think you belong to the upper class with $5 million, and those who own assets worth $5 million knows this. Many of them may have it tied up in real estate or businesses, that earns them an income where they live comfortable lives, but where they work hard and lives a small simple life without any overt luxury, which would be middle class IMO. Just because large portions of the population is moved down from middle class standard, doesn't have to mean that a person having $5 million in assets is in the upper class.