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Sure, shrimp and "land bugs" look similar if you squint at them. There is an obvious, massive difference though: crustaceans have meat. Most people don't just
by dahfizz 4y ago
Sure, shrimp and "land bugs" look similar if you squint at them. There is an obvious, massive difference though: crustaceans have meat.
Most people don't just eat a crustacean whole like you would have to with "land bugs". They harvest the meat from the shrimp / crab / lobster and eat the meat.
- nine_k 4y agoThe key part here that both groups are cold-blooded herbivores, so can be fed much more efficiently than both warm-blooded cattle and cold-blooded fish. You can extract some meat from large beetles, locusts, etc, much like you can from crabs. But even locusts are much smaller than crabs, which makes that onerous. You can eat larvae which are mostly meat, and some grow large enough, comparable to shrimps. Actually, some people in Africa already eat them for a long time. Would be a harder sell for Europeans, though.