PyroSAJ
PyroSAJ t1_jdc34mb wrote
Reply to Do insects have "meat" like other animals? I know that grubs, mealworms, etc. are eaten in some parts of the world, but if, for instance, beetles were the size of cows, could you butcher one and make beetle steak? by 9RFCat9
The major difference with insects is that the muscle is inside the "bone".
Scaling that up you'd have something like a crab. Scale it up more and you definitely enough meat to have steak.
The size makes it hard to separate the meat from everything else. Can still make a nutrient-rich meal of it, and given how fast they breed and mature it's quite efficient to farm. Processing it in to something people would readily consume is the hard part.
PyroSAJ t1_jdd3dzx wrote
Reply to comment by ndraiay in Do insects have "meat" like other animals? I know that grubs, mealworms, etc. are eaten in some parts of the world, but if, for instance, beetles were the size of cows, could you butcher one and make beetle steak? by 9RFCat9
Fried is fine. I was offered mopanie worms a few times in Africa.
I'm still scarred from the ones where the inside is "squishy".