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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by steve_adams_86 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:32AM (#19103663)
If you've ever handled bugs like scorpions or larger arthropods, they're remarkably similar to crawfish or crabs. They're virtually the same thing. There are aquatic and terrestrial arthropods which are literally the same type of 'bugs'. Whales and deer are not alike in the same way.
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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by justinator on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:40AM (#19103691)
If you've ever handled bugs like scorpions or larger arthropods, they're remarkably similar to crawfish or crabs. They're virtually the same thing.

How many millions of years ago would we need to go back, to find the common ancestor?

Whales and deer are not alike in the same way.

Same question, I suppose. A longer span of time, or shorter?

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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by dagw on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:01AM (#19103768)
we should all eat whale, since they're related to deer.

The main reason we don't eat whale is that they're going extinct in the wild and are impossible to farm (neither which are true about insects). Before we realized that large scale whaling was a bad idea we ate a lot more whale.

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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by justinator on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:46AM (#19106370)
In Western Civ., was whale eaten, or was whale used primarily for it's whale oil?

In places where it is/was eaten does that happen sustainably? (Japan excluded...)

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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by dagw on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:21AM (#19112400)
In Western Civ., was whale eaten

My understanding is that it used to be quite normal in Europe back when whales were plentiful and relatively easy to catch off the French and Spanish coasts. However by the end of 17th-century whale stocks there had completely collapsed due to overfishing, and it fell out of favour as food. In Europe it's really only Norway, Iceland and Greenland that continued eating whale into modern times and even there it's popularity has dropped dramatically since the 80s.

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Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018) by beatgammit on Saturday February 09, 2019 @02:13AM (#19121166)
Not exactly "Western" Civ, but Native American tribes along the west coast would hunt whales, and the Makah are still allowed to on the grounds that it's a tradition, though that's obviously limited by necessity due to whale populations (I think the can only take one each year).

I think that's a pretty convincing argument that people considered whales to be food for some time.

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