I can remember coming home from school and being welcomed by the essence of my mom’s freshly baked bread. Then she would treat me to a well-buttered slice of heaven.

That will never be a treat again if guys like Bill Gates, Yuval Noah Harari, and Klaus Schwab get their way. That Thanksgiving dinner that we Americans love may no longer be available, either. Instead of a succulent turkey sitting on your holiday table next year, it may be featuring roasted crickets laying on their shiny backs. Get ready to dig in, folks

The previously mentioned gentlemen are leaders of the movement that is out to save the planet. Klaus Schwab is one of the worlds leaders who says, “You will own nothing and be happy.” But If you think that Gates is going to trade his filet mignon for filet of cockroach, I’ve got a ski resort in Miami for you to buy. It’s you will be munching on grasshoppers.

One of their ideas is that by eliminating meat from our diet, the absence of raising animals will eliminate carbon-based gases and fuels. That will cleanse the environment so we could live on a cleaner planet. We will have cleaner air as we munch on worms and maybe a maggot occasionally for a late night snack. Now doesn’t that sound like a good trade-off?

Believe it or not, the leaders of some grocery stores are considering stocking its shelves with Yum Bug kits to help with the inflationary costs of food. One of the creators of the Yum Bug Kit says that crickets are a great source of protein; 70% protein, if you can keep it down without letting the legs tickle your gullet.

How’s this for your palate? You know that glass of milk that you have enjoyed? Well, that, of course, comes from a dastardly old-fashioned food source known as a cow. The cow has flatulence which contains methane and carbon dioxide. That’s bad stuff that can melt the Antarctica ice cap with could eventually raise the ocean levels. And you know what that might do? Flood Barack Obama’s mansion on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. That would be a shame because he had to save a lot of pennies from his meager presidential salary to buy that $15 million mansion.

So what you could do as a responsible citizen of earth is instead of drinking milk is to eat 4 crickets and get the same amount of calcium that a glass of milk provides. And with one of the cricket’s legs, that could be your toothpick so we wouldn’t have to cut down trees to make the toothpick.Those crickets are a win-win all around.

Of course, no matter how great crickets will be, one can’t eat roasted crickets day after day. So how does Smoky BBQ Cricket Tacos sound? Can you say, YUMMY!

Eating insects even has a name. It’s called entomophagy. So you may one day be a connioseur of various insect dishes like cricket powder. Then you will be an entomographist.

One entomographist sprinkles cricket powder on his yogurt. Another entomographist proudly sprinkles insect larvae( in other words maggots) on his salad. The day has come to eliminate those nasty old bacon bits and eat flies.

In fact, it looks like the day of Jiminy Cricket singing about wishing on a star is about over. His song will be cut short to just three lines. “When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, because you’re still going to be someone’s dinner.”

Nin Privitera, former Fredonia resident, now resides in Franklin, Tenn. Send comments to editorial@observertoday.com