fopdoodle
Saturday 4th June 2016 9:40am
Edinburgh
623 posts
I still maintain that had it been plausible I would have chosen a career as an entomologist as I was always fascinated by the little critters.
Summer holidays involved sticking me in a field full of grasshoppers so my parents were free until tea time. My mother once found me in the middle of the night in bathroom of holiday cottage with a massive stag beetle in my hand and completely freaked out.
So no, I couldn't eat them, and imagine the little legs would get stuck between my teeth - as with stringy meat, which I don't eat either.
But to stray a little onto being a veggie . . . I used to get plagued by people constantly asking me why and telling me 'it's not normal' so came up with 2 questions that always shut them the hell up, and they were:
1. Would you eat meat (red in particular) if you couldn't buy already prepared in supermarket . . . in other words, would you be prepared to slaughter and butcher it yourself? Because I'd rather just dig a spud up and give it a wash . . . it would be far less messy, I wouldn't need to change my clothes and bathe afterwards and it wouldn't put up a protest.
2. If our teeth prove we are omnivores and not meant to be herbivores, then why is man the only animal that has to fashion tools first in order to kill our prey as we are not equipped to do so otherwise.