“I’ve eaten crab all my life with no problem. But I don’t eat rotten things near the ocean or anywhere else.”
Crabs do, it’s a scavenger. So is lobster, crawdads, shrimp. When you see their handiwork up close and personal, see them drop out of dead carcasses it is thought provoking. I know a lot of responders that don’t eat shellfish. If shellfish aren’t eating carcasses of anything dead, the other kinds are filtering out all kinds of crap from the water. That just doesn’t strike me as good eatin’
Can confirm crabs are downright methodical in eating a dead animal the bait for them is rotting fish or any other rotting protein. This is why you have to purge them in salt water for at least a few days those tanks in the seafood restaurants serve a purpose most people don’t think about or want too. That said pigs will gladly eat any mannor of relatively fresh carcass humans included and we all love bacon right. hogs eat everything they can get in their snouts dead or alive and they will eat fecal matter too have seen them absolutely go to town on cow paddies or chicken droppings too. It’s standard practice in Asia to keep the chicken coup above the hog pens same for the human outhouse...read that again and think yummy bacon. Chickens are filthy animals worse than hogs they are cannibals and scavengers of the highest order they are the direct descendents of the raptor dinos. If a chicken can get it’s beak on it it’s will eat it if hungry.
You have no idea what a free-range chicken has eaten.
I think crabs are good eatin’, and I’ll keep eating them, thanks.
A cousin of my dad’s has a transcript on the web from an old interview of some kid’s oral project recounting his WWII stories.
He got to Europe just in time for the Battle of the Bulge. He said he never went hungry as the guys were always willing to give him their c-rations with pork in it. After a week behind the lines they moved out. He now understood - dead Germans on the side of the roads with the hogs feasting on them. (He still ate the pork c-rations though!)