National Public Radio recently decried accusations that efforts were being made to convince people to eat bugs rather than meat as racist and a right wing conspiracy, but one news outlet revealed NPR has aided in the eat ze bugs effort quite a few times.

What’s amusing is that NPR has been a proponent of the “Eat the bugs, dammit!” movement itself. A quick search of their archives finds several stories about the benefits of eating bugs, and there are countless examples of environmental extremists who are deeply concerned by cow farts wanting us to substitute animal protein with insect protein.

NPR is obsessed with the bug-eating controversy. Earlier this year they did another story about this very subject, in which they simultaneously argued that nobody wants you to eat bugs, but also that you really should want to eat bugs and it is racism and colonialism to reject the idea.

Here are some receipts below:

A lot of news outlets have continuously tried to make the case that people should start eating ze bugs or somehow make it part of their diet. Even the World Economic Forum has numerous articles dedicated to making the case that consuming insects in order to reduce someone’s carbon footprint.

However, Dutch political activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek points out, the eat ze bugs campaign is more a compliance test than it is to convince people to change their diets. Regardless of the reasons, NPR should not be furthering propaganda and needs to be defunded.

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