[Flaming Conservative]

Actually, if I had seen a live shrimp before I ever ate one, I probably would have refused to eat it. I’m not eating crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, flies or spiders, but some of them are spoken of as food in the Bible. As a matter of fact, shrimp are supposedly related to cockroaches!

[GenXPolymath]

All decapods and crustaceans are closer to insects than any other arthropods by DNA they share 99.9-99.8% effectively no difference. It’s cultural not scientific that’s it.

[SamAdams76]

The revolting aspect of eating certain foods does vary from culture to culture. For instance, in Vietnam, dog meat is very commonly eaten. In the Western World, we are shocked with the prospect of using "Man's best friend" as food.

Conversely, people in India (Hindus) are sickened by the prospect of Americans eating the beef of their sacred cows.

While many of us have come to appreciate lobster as a delicacy, the lobster itself is quite scary to look at, especially when it is still alive and kicking with those rubber bands wrapped around their claws.