Juno News - Eat the bugs, kids!

00:00:00.000 Now, if you're like me, the idea of eating bugs sounds a lot like a punishment, right? Like one

00:00:04.320 of those things you definitely don't want to do, not something you'd do if you had the choice.

00:00:08.120 The only thing you'd do if, you know, your family was starving, you were struggling,

00:00:12.300 there's only so much food to go around you that if you eat the crickets,

00:00:14.920 then you could give some of the food to your family. Under those circumstances,

00:00:18.660 you would eat bugs, right? What if I told you in Manitoba, eating bugs is actually seen as a reward?

00:00:24.480 Yes, a small little municipality called Pembina Valley in Manitoba has a thing called the

00:00:29.700 Classroom of the Month Award. If your classroom wins the Classroom of the Month Award,

00:00:34.620 every student in that classroom gets a little gift basket. And in that gift basket is a big bag of

00:00:40.060 barbecue flavored crickets. That's your reward for winning the Classroom of the Month Award.

00:00:44.780 These poor kids, they just wanted to be good students. They just wanted to, you know,

00:00:47.860 engage in class, put their hand up, ask questions, be good students. And for that,

00:00:52.320 they get to eat crickets, barbecue flavored crickets. So there's a video of this on Twitter.

00:00:56.360 It's going viral right now. It's clearly a few months old because they're all wearing like

00:01:00.360 sweaters and all that. And they're all wearing masks in the school, but it's ridiculous. It's 0.87

00:01:04.280 going viral. I want to show you this video. It's so, it's so sad. Can you imagine being one of those

00:01:08.120 kids who just wants to be a good student? And in return, you get to eat the bugs. Watch this.

00:01:13.400 So there's this company right here in Manitoba. They're called Prairie Cricket Farms.

00:01:21.860 Oh, look at this guy. The guy serving the kids crickets is sitting there with his little mask on,

00:01:29.200 looking all jazz, looking all happy to serve these kids crickets.

00:01:32.320 And what they do is they farm crickets and they put them in nice little bags and then you can eat

00:01:38.940 the crickets. Then you can eat the crickets. We were conspiracy theorists. Guys, we were

00:01:44.140 conspiracy theorists for this. None of the kids want to eat the bugs. None of the kids want to eat

00:01:55.860 the bugs. Look, you heard one of them say, I don't even want this. We just want to be good

00:02:03.300 students. These poor kids with their masks on, they have to keep their masks on. And in between,

00:02:08.440 they can take their mask off to eat the bugs and then put the mask back on. Oh my God. You can't

00:02:13.680 even make it up. Look, and this guy's signing autographs.

00:02:25.860 Unreal. For being a good student, Timmy, here's a nice big bag of barbecue flavored crickets.

00:02:34.560 Unreal. So I was a little, I was, I was like, okay, this, this could be fake because it looks

00:02:39.420 so ridiculous that it had to be fake. When I first saw it, I was like, wow, they're all wearing masks.

00:02:44.700 They take their mask off to eat the bug and then put the mask back on. Like it's straight out of,

00:02:48.800 straight out of a skit, right? If I did some digging, Prairie Cricket Farm. Turns out to be a

00:02:53.080 real thing. And check this out. Check out what I found. This is from a 2020 global news segment.

00:02:59.740 And I just got to say, I feel really sorry for this journalist. I feel like they embarrassed

00:03:04.820 this journalist a little bit. Just watch this. I'm hearing in my ear right now. They're like,

00:03:09.480 you need to try a cricket. You need to try a cricket. Um, we're going to try a cricket. Which

00:03:14.480 one is the best guy to try here? I try the barbecue. Barbecue is my favorite. Barbecue.

00:03:20.480 Okay. Oh dear. All right. I'm just going to go for it here. This is happening. Should

00:03:27.360 I sniff it or just eat it? I would just eat it. Oh God. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Her face.

00:03:32.340 Yes. Yes. You know what? It's kind of like a, like a chip. Yeah. It's not that bad and healthy.

00:03:43.140 It's not that bad guys. You see global news telling you it's not that bad. It's healthy

00:03:47.340 and it tastes like a chip. Now it's your turn. And then get this, the anchors at this global news

00:03:53.380 studio, this Manitoba global newsroom, they ask her to eat a whole handful of the bugs just in case

00:03:59.740 her endorsement that it's healthy and it doesn't taste that bad. And it tastes like a chip wasn't

00:04:03.480 enough. They have her eat a handful of these bugs on screen on the news. Um, okay. Just die. She's 1.00

00:04:11.900 doing it. Maybe a sprinkling. We're going to go for a sprinkling. We are so proud of you. A sprinkling.

00:04:19.840 It's like, like a healthy chip. That's good. That's good. Thanks guys. We're going to keep

00:04:26.400 snacking away. Gabby back to you. These poor legacy media journalists, the things they will do for

00:04:31.200 money. Oh, don't you just feel bad for them guys at global news? Don't you just feel bad for those

00:04:35.700 poor journalists over there having to eat bugs, trying to convince us all that it's healthy for

00:04:40.400 us. They taste like chips. Just do it guys. It tastes like chips. It's healthy.

Juno News - August 24, 2022

Eat the bugs, kids!

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