A Polish official is proposing an anti-bug law that will require food products in groceries to come with warning labels if they contain insects.
Janusz Kowalski explained that the bill aims to properly inform Polish consumers about bug additives in food products, which are increasingly being introduced worldwide as an alternative source of protein. Kowalski, a member of the Sejm (parliament) for the United Poland party, is the secretary of state (deputy minister) for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The proposal came amid a recent campaign by the ruling conservative coalition government, the United Right – which includes the United Poland party – to bring to light efforts by moderate, liberal, left-wing and other opposition groups to restrict traditional meat consumption and make Poles eat insects instead. Polish opposition groups have denied that there are such plans.
Under Kowalski’s proposed law, products with insects must include a label stating: “Warning, this food product contains insect protein”.
“Dried mealworm larvae, powdered cricket – these are among the insects that the Eurocrats and Rafal Trzaskowski [opposition mayor of Warsaw] call ‘new food’”, said Kowalski during the unveiling of the proposed legislation in the Sejm. “That is why we, United Poland, have initiated the preparation of legal regulations … that will give Polish consumers clear knowledge about food products containing so-called bug additives. This is an anti-bug law”.
Source: Natural News
