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[vicarz]

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!

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[nixieq.livejournal.com]

um, while i imagine it's bad for the pet owners to eat them, i believe what you were trying to say is that it's bad for the pets to eat them, yes? >;)

and in reasonable amounts, it's not so bad. it's just if they gorge on them. (which, unfortunately, they'll tend to do.)

[covenofone.livejournal.com]

As a pet owner, I can tell you that I won't even be TEMPTED to ingest one of those vile creatures.

Besides, I don't think they are on my diet.

[thefeline.livejournal.com]

Mm mm mmm bugs!

[tony-laetrile.livejournal.com]

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.

[thefeline.livejournal.com]

Maybe not...but there are a few hairballs that look like dead animals ;op