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I hate insects because I don't know which ones bite and they carry disease. Fish have parasites but that is only a real issue if you don't handle them properly and intend to eat them.
With that said, if shrimp constantly entered my house and propagated unrelentingly I would hate them too.
Very few insects carry disease...
Dawg. Insects broke away from the arthropods in the ocean and came on land in the fucking Devonian period. That makes crabs and insects about as related as you and a lobe-finned fish.
"Bugs" (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I'm sure it's Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I'd guess probably most things with shells. Possibly just most animals
And yes, we are that closely related to fish
My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I'm trying and failing to understand your point, and don't at all get what you're using the word "bugs" to describe
The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I'd interpret that as a stock image fail)
Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way 'fish' is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.
Sure, people are fish and insects are crstaceans, but that has nothing to do with edibility.
I still don't understand what point you're trying to make...
I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.
Just eat plants
bug, air
bug, in saltwater which significantly reduces illness and other parasites in the bugs.
Dawg you can literally see the intestines in shrimp, chock full of shrimp poop. No way that is any cleaner than eating a fully cooked cricket.
Dawg we take that out first
Speak for yourself.
slurp
This is why people like lobster and crab legs
bugs in saltwater have way more parasites than the flying ones. they are practically riddled with it. they have the ones that do alot of harm to people who eat it.
Wait really?
I know some folks down north who eat pan-fried ant butts. The ants in question are typically flying adults of the genus Atta (leafcutters), so specially large.
That hints to me that one of the main reasons people prefer sea bugs over land bugs is size and texture. Like, you can extract the meat from a crab leg just fine, but you can't do it with most insects, you'll be biting through the chitin, you know?
Shrimps is bugs. Bugs is good eats.
He shaved between takes
If crabs could get into our houses as easily as ants we'd hate looking at them too
