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[–]Datachost 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (9 children)
More importantly what's the shellfish/cricket allergy crossover?
A lot of shellfish are basically water bugs.
[–]Haylstorm 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (8 children)
Huh neat. It's not something i've really thought about before.
Kinda adds to the other point though, if we're okay with sea bugs the land ones might not be too bad either if they're safe to eat. Just a bit weird because we aren't used to it.
[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun - 1 year ago (6 children)
We are at the top of the food chain. We aren't meant to eat bugs. At worst, we should eat things that eat bugs.
Insects are pervasive in rotting meat. A human should not be eating insects. That is poverty- both financial and moral poverty.
[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
we should eat things that eat bugs.
So spiders then? Right, spiders are on the menu, boys!
[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
This is exactly why I qualified that statement.
[–]Electronic_Antelope 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
Just saying it's gross and you don't want to do it is a lot more reasonable - this is basically nonsense, in terms of the underlying biology. Not only is there nothing special about eating creatures at higher trophic levels, but essentially all the animals we do eat are indeed primary consumers.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Fine. Go eat fucking bugs then.
[–]Electronic_Antelope 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
I don't want to, they're gross.
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Exactly.
[–]MarkJefferson 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
If there were things like buggalo around I might consider it. Because then they would be big enough to cut out specific body parts like one would with steak or ribs. At the very least the bugs should be big enough to manually remove their shells and stuff, like you would a lobster. Otherwise you'd always ingest an inconsistent mishmash of incompatible and unappetizing parts with your meat, including digestive tracts(and the materials therein). There's a reason bugs never really caught on for people who could afford other animal meat.
But the land arthropod varieties are way too small for that treatment. It's their respiratory system(tracheae) that hold them back in terms of size. They at least need gills or book lungs to become any bigger. Also, bigger land arthropods like the coconut crab need to eat tons of food themselves to become that big. You can probably grow them but it'll be inefficient because the cycles of growing and shedding their beefy exoskeletons are materially inefficient. And that's basically the whole point of bug farms. Efficiency.
tl;dr - It's either unappetizing to eat them small, or inefficient to grow them big. So pick your poison. I let mother nature do the latter and eat their largest members(crustaceans) occasionally, but I stick with the big 3(beef, pork, and chicken) most of the rest of the time.
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