Meat, in the important sense here, is defined as “the muscle tissue of an animal” with the implicit meaning of “food”. An animal, in turn, is anything that’s in the animal kingdom, that is, pretty much anything that isn’t a plant or a fungus. You might think “animal” means “a hairy creature with four legs or a feathered one with two wings and two legs”, but the definition is far broader than that.
Insects have muscle tissue. It is edible. Therefore it is meat.
Insects are more chitin than they are meat. If you can extract the meat from a cricket and fry it up I’ll give it a shot. If it’s just ground up chitin and bug guts with a little bit of muscle fiber thrown in I will pass thank you.
Meat, in the important sense here, is defined as “the muscle tissue of an animal” with the implicit meaning of “food”. An animal, in turn, is anything that’s in the animal kingdom, that is, pretty much anything that isn’t a plant or a fungus. You might think “animal” means “a hairy creature with four legs or a feathered one with two wings and two legs”, but the definition is far broader than that.
Insects have muscle tissue. It is edible. Therefore it is meat.
Insects are more chitin than they are meat. If you can extract the meat from a cricket and fry it up I’ll give it a shot. If it’s just ground up chitin and bug guts with a little bit of muscle fiber thrown in I will pass thank you.
If you eat chicken nuggets I doubt you can complain too much.
Hmm 95% meat + 5% beak and feet compared to 5% meat + 95% chitin and guts. I guess it’s totally the same thing, sorry my bad.
You think nuggets are 95% meat? Long may you remain in blissful ignorance.