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Also other than the inherent disgust to bug there is also the fact that since bugs are so small animals they can't be cleaned and separeted to different parts of the animal. This means that part of what you eat is the intestines of the animal with all the fecal matter in it.
I simply don't want shit (or processed shit) in my food. Is that too big of an ask?
The industrial beef slaughterhouses don't exactly have a pristine track record of keeping shit out of the market either.
Still by the nature o these animals being bigger it is practicality easier to separate the different parts. With everithing else being equal. No matter how bad it is, it is going to be less than 100% of the initial shit ammount unlike with the bugs wich I'll imagine are being crushed whole.
Like a lot of seafood then.
Large fishes are able to be cleaned so you can choose those.
Oh absolutely. That’s why I said “a lot of seafood” and not all seafood.
As a kid I was grossed out by ‘the black line’ on shrimp/prawns but these days I don’t care.
I guess wiping baby butts and picking up my dog’s crap has made me a bit more tolerant of these things. :D
Haha. Well I guess the silver lining is that so long it is not proven to be harmfull healthwise it should be ok. It still grosses me out though. Maybe one day I will be brave enought to accept 2% shit in my food so long it is well cooked.
Most fish, shrimp, lobster are prepared so that you aren't eating the intestines. The closest seafood-with-intact-intestines I can think of off the top of my head that makes it to the table is crawfish, and de-veining them is a part of the eating process
Honestly I think every time I’ve had shrimp, the vast majority have still had the vein.
King prawns are a bit different - at least they’re large enough for deveining to be practical.
It's probably an American thing. Shrimp here are almost always deveined
You ever eat a sausage? The casing is made out of intestine. Before it was used as a sausage casing, it was used as a shit container, and it probably still contains traces of shit.
It also probably contains a few radioactive atoms, a bit of mercury here and there, maybe some arsenic…
Until and unless food is synthesized from atoms by a Star Trek replicator, it's going to contain things you don't want to eat. The best we can do is remove most of those things, but try as we might, we can't remove them all.
You say "probably" a lot because you don't know. Most sausages nowadays are made in a synthetic outer part. The traditional ones where made with an intestin that was turned inside out washed with hot water and scraped. Basically people expended a lot if effort to make it as sanitary as possible with the means they had at the time.