Utah school gives extra credit to kids who eat bugs as part of ‘climate change’ assignment

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

The World Economic Forum has promoted eating bugs rather than meat as a means to protect the climate.

SPANISH FORK, Utah (LifeSiteNews) – A Utah middle school faces backlash after a teacher awarded extra credit to students for eating grasshoppers as part of an essay assignment arguing that people should eat bugs in an effort to fight climate change.

Kim Cutler, a teacher at Spring Canyon Middle School, assigned sixth grade English students an essay titled “Why Americans Should Be Eating Bugs?” According to the parameters of the assignment, students were supposed to write an essay arguing that people should eat bugs rather than cows as their primary source of protein as cows produce methane that damages the ozone layer. Students were not allowed to disagree with the assignment’s argument.

In addition to the essay, Cutler gave students the opportunity to receive extra credit by eating grasshoppers that the school district, Nebo School District, bought from a commercial website.

A student in the class, Saige Wright, confronted Cutler in a video provided to FOX News. When Wright asked Cutler why students could not argue against the essay’s premise, Cutler responded by saying, “Because we don’t have any evidence for it.”

“It’s kind of weird that I gave you a topic where there is only one right answer,” Cutler continued. “We don’t want to eat bugs and it’s gross. But should we be eating bugs? Yeah, because we’re killing the world by raising cows and animals. So we need to, not get rid of cows, but like, try to balance our diet so that not so much of our land is being used to raise cows, cause it’s killing the Ozone layer.”

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Utah school gives extra credit to kids who eat bugs as part of 'climate change' assignment - LifeSite

The World Economic Forum has promoted eating bugs rather than meat as a means to protect the climate.

www.lifesitenews.com

LeafByNiggle · Mar 18, 2023

More on the story from today.com:

"When the teacher realized there was concern, the student was offered another topic of the student’s choice," says the spokesperson, adding, "When the teacher said there is only one right answer, she was referencing one particular article about this argumentative essay — not her own opinion."

The teacher purchased the "edible bugs" from a commercial website that stated they were "safe for consumption," says the spokesperson.

Offering the bugs as extra credit was "an afterthought," she continued. "There are multiple opportunities for extra credit or bonus points in this class."

Can bugs actually be part of a nutritious diet? Perhaps.

"Bugs are eaten just about everywhere in the world except the United States and Europe," Rick Redak, a professor of entomology and department chair at UC Riverside, tells TODAY.com. "There are probably 500 to 1,000 species of insects that are used for food."

According to the Food Science of Animal Resources, in Japan, bee or wasp larvae is a luxury food, South Korean stores sell canned silkworm pupae and in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Nigeria edible insects are school cafeteria fare. Meanwhile, a new study identified the “tequila worm,” found in distilled Mexican alcoholic drinks, as agave redworm moth. Redak points out that lobsters, shrimp and crab are closely related to insects.

For those with curious palates, it's easy to find packaged bugs (crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars, mealworms) for human consumption in flavors like chocolate, curry or honey mustard.

"Bugs are a good source of protein, carbohydrates and are readily abundant, as people look to reduce their environmental footprint," says Redak.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, edible insects produce less greenhouse gas than livestock, improves food security and can be grown on compost. "Therefore, insects are a potential source for conventional production (mini-livestock) of protein, either for direct human consumption, or indirectly in recomposed foods (with extracted protein from insects); and as a protein source into feedstock mixtures," reads the website.

In fact, people regularly consume insects without realizing it, says Redak.

"Cochineal dye is a product of the cochineal scale insect which grows mostly on cactus," he explains. "It provides a dark purple or red dye which is used in all kinds of makeup products (lipstick, blush) and food additives. It's ground-up insects."

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

Utah teacher assigns project on why 'Americans should be eating bugs'

Students at a Utah middle school were given insects to eat as part of a project on climate change and how eating bugs could save the environment from cows which are 'killing the world.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

'What if you wanted to do – ' the student starts to ask before she's interrupted.

'You don't have any evidence to support it,' Cutler responds abruptly.

'There's only one right answer to this essay. And it's that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone in the world is eating them, it's healthy for the environment and there's just, there's only one right answer,' the teacher continues.

The mother of the student complained to the district and set up a meeting with school principal Alison Hansen and Cutler, a language arts teacher.

Wright recorded the interaction and shared it with Fox Digital.

'[My daughter] wasn't given an option to give an argument,' Wright said during the meeting.

'Well, the assignment was about finding facts to support,' Hansen said.

"All the evidence has suggested, that we probably should be eating bugs – it's good for the environment, etc. But I didn't know that that was an offensive topic to indicate," Cutler said, according to an audio recording.

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

Utah school gives kids 'disgusting' insects to eat in class for climate assignment on cows killing the Earth

Spring Canyon Middle School in Utah's Nebo School District said humans should eat bugs to protect the environment from climate change disaster wrought by cows.

www.foxnews.com

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

In a separate recording, Cutler apologized for the assignment, saying, “I am not aware of the agenda part … I am sorry for that… it wasn’t intending to harm anyone.” Cutler also apologized for not allowing students to give a second opinion for the assignment. Cutler further stated that the notion of eating bugs to protect the climate appeared in a teacher training for the district.

Wolseley · Mar 18, 2023

That's when you need to go into the school the next day with a jar full of live termite larvae, and demand that the teacher eat it.

If the teacher protests, you should say, "Oh, but in Africa, people eat live termite larvae all the time. It's a magnificent source of protein, and they squish so nicely as you chew. So dig in, because just as there's only one right answer to your assignment, there's also only one choice for your lunch today: you are not leaving this room until you eat this crap. I'll be sitting over here with my two Double Whoppers with Cheese, blocking the exit door. Let me know when you're done."

The best way to combat liberal lunacy is by inflicting their own lunacy back on them.

Michie · Mar 18, 2023

Wolseley said:
That's when you need to go into the school the next day with a jar full of live termite larvae, and demand that the teacher eat it.

If the teacher protests, you should say, "Oh, but in Africa, people eat live termite larvae all the time. It's a magnificent source of protein, and they squish so nicely as you chew. So dig in, because just as there's only one right answer to your assignment, there's also only one choice for your lunch today: you are not leaving this room until you eat this crap. I'll be sitting over here with my two Double Whoppers with Cheese, blocking the exit door. Let me know when you're done."

The best way to combat liberal lunacy is by inflicting their own lunacy back on them.

She did refuse to eat the grasshopper in class claiming she ate one in another class. I guess she was full. Lol!

Wolseley · Mar 18, 2023

Michie said:
She did refuse to eat the grasshopper in class claiming she ate one in another class. I guess she was full. Lol!

Uh-huh.

Sword of the Lord · Mar 19, 2023

But this is a fact and I hate liberal agendas. The rest of the world really does eat them, and so would we if we weren't privileged obese lazy bums who can buy cow meat at any store.

Diamond7 · Mar 22, 2023

LeafByNiggle said:
Can bugs actually be part of a nutritious diet? Perhaps.

Perhaps? I can tell you have never been to Asia. There are lots of venders there that sell bugs for people to eat. In China they will eat anything and everything.

Diamond7 · Mar 22, 2023

Sword of the Lord said:
who can buy cow meat at any store.

I am not so sure we can. Cow meat is getting expensive. Esp if you are on a low-fat diet, which we all should be.

LeafByNiggle · Mar 28, 2023

Diamond7 said:
Perhaps? I can tell you have never been to Asia. There are lots of venders there that sell bugs for people to eat. In China they will eat anything and everything.

I can tell you did not read my post carefully. The words you quoted were not mine. If you look at the top of my post, you will see "More from the article". In fact I was in support of promoting education about climate change, even if it means learning about eating bugs. And no, I have never been to Asia, although there is a certain staircase in Tokyo I would love to visit (@35.685050, 139.723331). The OP was from the right-wing Lifesite News that is known for belittling climate change, and their article about the school that offered students extra credit for writing about eating bugs to combat climate change was an attempt to paint those who are concerned about climate change as ridiculous. By my quoting from the rest of their own article I was showing that by their own admission, it was not as creepy as the headline might lead one to believe.

Wolseley · Mar 28, 2023

I sat down and watched "The Thaw", starring Val Kilmer, yesterday.....

I am even less enamored of the idea of eating bugs now than I was before.

PsaltiChrysostom · Mar 28, 2023

Wolseley said:
That's when you need to go into the school the next day with a jar full of live termite larvae, and demand that the teacher eat it.

If the teacher protests, you should say, "Oh, but in Africa, people eat live termite larvae all the time. It's a magnificent source of protein, and they squish so nicely as you chew. So dig in, because just as there's only one right answer to your assignment, there's also only one choice for your lunch today: you are not leaving this room until you eat this crap. I'll be sitting over here with my two Double Whoppers with Cheese, blocking the exit door. Let me know when you're done."

The best way to combat liberal lunacy is by inflicting their own lunacy back on them.

So John the Forerunner was a lunatic for living on locusts and raw honey? Fried cicadas isn't uncommon in the United States. Even in the 19th century, the Cincinnati newpapers reported

Although The Enquirer in 1868 claimed locust-fed squirrels were a hazard, the newspaper changed its tune in 1885:

“The seventeen-year locust has been eaten in North America and is said to have been used in soap-making.”

The Post [June 12, 1885] agreed, taking biblical inspiration from John the Baptist, who subsisted on locusts (of an entirely different species) and honey, and suggested that the insects might be breaded and fried:

“Those who have eaten of him may be pardoned for saying, after acknowledging that the new dish was very good, that it had a flavor unlike anything else in their experience.”

One Dayton restaurant even put together a cicada pizza (but health regulations prevented them from selling it)

Wolseley · Mar 28, 2023

I said nothing about John the Baptist being a lunatic for eating locusts. I merely said I myself have no inclination, or intention, or eating them myself.

Cheers!

Postvieww · Mar 30, 2023

God put both cows and bugs here. I am not sure His plan was for us to kill all of the cows and eat bugs to save the planet.

PsaltiChrysostom · Mar 30, 2023

Wolseley said:
I said nothing about John the Baptist being a lunatic for eating locusts. I merely said I myself have no inclination, or intention, or eating them myself. Cheers!

Neither do I but then I will enjoy lobster. That means that shrimp, lobsters, and other crustaceans are related – very closely related – not only to cockroaches, but to all other insects, too.

Postvieww · Apr 22, 2023

Michie said:
The World Economic Forum has promoted eating bugs rather than meat as a means to protect the climate.

SPANISH FORK, Utah (LifeSiteNews) – A Utah middle school faces backlash after a teacher awarded extra credit to students for eating grasshoppers as part of an essay assignment arguing that people should eat bugs in an effort to fight climate change.

Kim Cutler, a teacher at Spring Canyon Middle School, assigned sixth grade English students an essay titled “Why Americans Should Be Eating Bugs?” According to the parameters of the assignment, students were supposed to write an essay arguing that people should eat bugs rather than cows as their primary source of protein as cows produce methane that damages the ozone layer. Students were not allowed to disagree with the assignment’s argument.

In addition to the essay, Cutler gave students the opportunity to receive extra credit by eating grasshoppers that the school district, Nebo School District, bought from a commercial website.

A student in the class, Saige Wright, confronted Cutler in a video provided to FOX News. When Wright asked Cutler why students could not argue against the essay’s premise, Cutler responded by saying, “Because we don’t have any evidence for it.”

“It’s kind of weird that I gave you a topic where there is only one right answer,” Cutler continued. “We don’t want to eat bugs and it’s gross. But should we be eating bugs? Yeah, because we’re killing the world by raising cows and animals. So we need to, not get rid of cows, but like, try to balance our diet so that not so much of our land is being used to raise cows, cause it’s killing the Ozone layer.”

Continued below.

Utah school gives extra credit to kids who eat bugs as part of 'climate change' assignment - LifeSite

The World Economic Forum has promoted eating bugs rather than meat as a means to protect the climate.

www.lifesitenews.com

"The World Economic Forum" this should tell one all they need to know.

LizaMarie · Apr 22, 2023

Wolseley said:
That's when you need to go into the school the next day with a jar full of live termite larvae, and demand that the teacher eat it.

If the teacher protests, you should say, "Oh, but in Africa, people eat live termite larvae all the time. It's a magnificent source of protein, and they squish so nicely as you chew. So dig in, because just as there's only one right answer to your assignment, there's also only one choice for your lunch today: you are not leaving this room until you eat this crap. I'll be sitting over here with my two Double Whoppers with Cheese, blocking the exit door. Let me know when you're done."

The best way to combat liberal lunacy is by inflicting their own lunacy back on them.

Well, one things for sure. If we have to switch to insects, I will lose that 40lbs I've been told I have to lose.
But look:The world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans
Aren't insect populations collapsing too, as a result of climate change?
And I don't dismiss climate change out of hand. I support protecting the environment and think we should for one thing use less plastics ,ect.
But this agenda trying to force bug eating(and other looney things) on people from the far left grinds my gears.
There are lots of things we can do before we get to that point of banning cows and forcing insects on people.
What's wrong with raising more chickens?( I live in farm country BTW Cows raised here!)

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