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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

i Don't eat cereal without bugs, why would i eat my Water without Them?

[–] goofystench@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

how tf can you call seafood wet bugs????

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

one side takes regular baths.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

You'll have to ask Reptile.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’re different, scorpion isn’t as sweet as lobster meat.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I think I read somewhere that tarantulas taste like shrimp

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Shrimps are pretty rich

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Counterpoint: lobster is delicious

Why are you okay eating cow meat and not house cat meat?

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

House cats: overwhelming over weight so mostly fat. And not the type that pigs and cows are. Feral cats: riddled with diseases and malnourished.

Cows: mostly muscle and with a marbling of fat.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wow so what youre saying is that youre okay eating one but not the other because one tastes better?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Frankly, if you're looking at the morality of eating meat, this is as good a stance as any.

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Why are you making assumptions about what I'm ok with?

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I don't eat either of them

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Availability is likely a factor here. House cats are everywhere, but professionally prepared cat meat is not. If it was in the cooler at your local walmart and priced comparably to beef, we'd see a lot more people eating cat. If the taste and texture are better than beef, we'd probably even start to see a market shift as more and more people start thinking of them as food instead of pets.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You can't discount the role that tradition plays in that. Because mutton and goat would have replaced beef decades ago.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I wish mutton and goat were more available near me. Lamb can be had but I want bigger cuts for stew or curry.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I can't fit a cow in my house, and it's not generally cute and cuddly, so it must die instead. But seriously though, are cats even delicious?

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cow [... i]s not generally cute and cuddly

You couldn't be further from the truth.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fiiiiine, they are cute. And maaaaaybe cuddly, even though they tend to smell if they've been outside all day. ^And^ ^they^ ^are^ ^delicious.^

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

even though they tend to smell if they've been outside all day.

So do cats and dogs.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, but I keep my cats inside, so they smell really nice. Too nice... maybe I do want to eat them after all.

[–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Technically modern insects are descended from shrimp and lobster, so this is bugs good vs dry bugs bad

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No they aren't lol, nothing alive now is descended from anything else alive now.

They are somewhat related in the broad scheme of things, but not that close when you dig a bit deeper. They share a common ancestor about 400 million years ago (1, 2), whereas we share a common ancestor with them about 530 million years ago. Considering the more than 2 billion year history of life, you could say we are almost as related to them as they are to each other. It's true that this was during the Cambrian explosion (3) so we are about as distantly removed from them as animals can be, and differentiation of biological features slowed down a bit after that, but still, true insects and the kinds of crustaceans we mostly eat like shrimps and lobsters have been on different branches of the evolutionary tree for most of the history of animals.

Of course we (humans) do eat many land insects too, like crickets and so on.

Here's a fun zoomable graphic I found while looking up the dates: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Pancrustacea=985906?otthome=%40%3D770311#x-28,y311,w0.8390

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Crocos are still here. And sharks.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago
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