Cultures in most parts are rational when it comes not to eating specific things, when it comes to animals/insects it's mostly about parasites.

That reminds me of the story of Sam Ballard, who ate a slug due to a dare and fell into a coma, woke up paralyzed, and later died.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eat...

It is at least noteworthy that this was in down under… :) (Deadly fauna, deadly fauna everywhere)

Doesn't cooking get rid of most parasites?

One of my earliest memories is of eating a bug.