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The issue with people eating bugs (Not that it's really an issue just a cultural thing) isn't because they don't have meat, but because it's not really possible to separate the meat from everything else. So generally, if you eat the thing, you eat the whole thing, shell and organs and all.

Compared to say, lobster or shrimp, which are... is butchered still the right term?... Prepared?...

Yeah, I'm a smart person who knows that one too. Would you type it out here though, for all the schmucks who've never heard it?

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There’s a guy who cut a chicken’s head off but mis-hit it and left a chunk of brain that was able to maintain the chicken’s life for 18 months. The guy fed it still by stuffing corn down it’s throat I think. Interesting story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

What you refer to as meat is mostly muscle tissue, so yes bugs have meat on the inside of their exoskeleton. If you ever had crab or lobster you had “bug meat”( crustaceans and insects are in the same phylum, arthropods)

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There's a fascinating (though sad) case of a boy who became brain dead after contracting viral meningitis. I remember reading about it in a bioethics class. He lived for another 20 years without anything resembling a brain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102206/

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Injury at C3 would completely impair breathing, with partial impairment down to C5. The accessory muscles that assist with breathing (not the diaphragm) like the intercostals can be affected all the way down to T12 with varying degrees of impairment.

Source: orthopedic resident who sometimes does spine surgery

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This was cool - thank you for sharing!

The body can go for years, if fed, and sometimes with pumped O2, even with no higher brain functions available.

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