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Old 02-07-2012, 01:01 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fazstp View Post
That reminded me of a story a little while ago of a young child getting some form of meningitis after eating a slug or snail. Just Googled "slug brain damage" and this popped up.

Angiostrongylus Cantonensis
Ugh, I hate parasitic diseases Glad they seem to be generally located on the other side of the planet from where I sit.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer View Post
I genuinely want to try deep fried stick insects. They are supposed to be delicious and we as a species eat a whole variety of food so why not?
I bet those sedate vegetarians would be good

Me and my wife kept some as pets and my guess is they could make a good food source in the future. Generally speaking, the kinds one might keep as pets reproduce by cloning (parthenogenesis), so they don't even require sex to multiply.
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