thefeline notes, as do articles I'm too lazy to link, that pet owners are warned that eating cicadas can be bad for their health. Something about despite the protein, the exoskeleton is not digestible, leading to complications. Yum!
Insect exoskeletons are made of chitin, a form of keratin similar to fingernails, hair, and rhino horns. Eating a few cicadas is like biting your nails. Eating many will give the animal something akin to hairballs. Ain't no hairball that killed an animal.
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Date: 2004-04-29 12:39 pm (UTC)and in reasonable amounts, it's not so bad. it's just if they gorge on them. (which, unfortunately, they'll tend to do.)
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Date: 2004-04-29 12:41 pm (UTC)Besides, I don't think they are on my diet.
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Date: 2004-04-29 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-29 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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