Keltoi Samurai
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Discuss: Do you eat meat? Why or why not? How do you feel about eating meat? Is it wrong? Is there a line? if so, where is it? Should people eat meat?
ok, here's my opinion: It depends no the person, and there is no right answer, it's a matter of morals and choice. I eat meat because I have a high metabolism, and my body-type requires a lot of hemoglobin and protein. I eat beef, pork, ham, chicken, fish, shellfish. on occasion i will eat eggs, venison, turkey, and other meats. For me, it's a matter of health, not morals.
I don't like the taste of deer out here in the Rockies. It tastes like sagebrush.
I eat anything but dog, cat, and human. Everything else is fair game.
What of dolphins?
And insects?
Not sure if dolphin is good eatin.
But insects, with a light batter coating and deep fried, are quite delectable IMO. I still remember eating fried worms and grasshoppers a few years back, kinda like eating deep fried clams but crunchier...
Insects have toxins in them.
They have to be removed to eat in any considerable degree, generally it leaves them testing bitter. O_o
Maybe they were specially raised.
I know worms generally have too much dirt and bacteria in them to be eaten normally.
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insects actually don't, as a rule, have appreciable toxin contents. live meal worms can be pretty good, with the right Gagh recipe
Insects have poop in them. You'd have to remove a lot of their organs not to eat them- like all animals, eating the guts with the meat can be a bad idea, as it can infect the meat.
As well, the exoskeleton is made of calcium carbonate and chitin, which while hard to ingest can actually cause significant toxicity in any large amounts- plus, sclerotin, like found in most hard exoskeleton insects (practically all of them) is fairly toxic in it's own accord. That, coupled with poisons they're often filled with to deter predators (without our digestive systems adapted to consume them) and their ability to "live" or move even after technical death (head removed, heart stopped) makes them difficult to eat.
Many more have toxins in them that they use to deter other insects. Fine for us, but if we ate a lot of them it would be bad.
As well, many of them carry disease and stuff. Even under the right circumstances isolating the right level of protein is hard.
But, the shells are used in strawberry flavored Starbucks coffee. So in the right applications it can be fine.