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Since we eat animals that we're more biologically similar to than insects, and assuming that parasites prefer to live in roughly similar things, I'm not sure ho
by bootlooped 8y ago
Since we eat animals that we're more biologically similar to than insects, and assuming that parasites prefer to live in roughly similar things, I'm not sure how the parasite risk would be worse by eating insects. If they were raised in captivity, we would have just as much opportunity to pump them full of antibiotics as we do other food animals.
The other thing is that sufficiently heating food will kill any parasite present, along with many other things that would do us harm.
- sandworm101 8y agoDont assume. It is very normal for a parasite to go through many very different hosts, each covering a different part of a complex lifecycle. Bacteria and viruses are different.
- GW150914 8y agoJust to add, being a parasite’s intermediate host is often a raw deal, because the little critter didn’t evolve to give a shit about how quickly and brutally it kills you.
- sandworm101 8y agoLike when they take over hosts, change their behavior, ... essentially operate them as zombies.