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There are humans that eat insects. I don't think there's something about eating insects we automatically find unappealing. I believe we've been taught that. Ano
by jay-anderson 8y ago
There are humans that eat insects. I don't think there's something about eating insects we automatically find unappealing. I believe we've been taught that. Another idea is we don't like seeing the face of what we're eating. Most meat is processed to the point where we can't see where it comes from.
For fun my wife made some cookies including cricket powder. We told people and did not hide that fact from them. Most wanted to try it for the novelty of it and didn't find the idea disgusting.
- iamdave 8y agoAnother idea is we don't like seeing the face of what we're eating. Most meat is processed to the point where we can't see where it comes from. Ahh laws and sausages ;)
- gnulinux 8y agoPrimate brain has special parts specifically wired to visually process snakes [1]. It is also thought that it has specific parts that process the shape of spider, and maybe other insects [2]. This is one explanation why primates have such a strangely large brain. Processing image requires a lot of computational power, being arboreal, primates need to distinguish snakes and spiders to safely crawl in the forest. This is not to say, primates wouldn't eat snakes or spiders. I don't know if other primates eat them (they might be?) but humans do eat both [3] [4]. [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/10/did-snakes-help-build-primate-brain http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/10/did-snakes-help-build... [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214004539 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake#Consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake#Consumption