Sit down in front of a whole lobster on a plate and tell me we don’t eat insects
We do call them sea bugs, sure. Show me an insect per se with an edible white tissue the size of my palm and we'll talk about it.
Create an oxygen-rich atmosphere and you can engineer big-enough land insects.
See the carboniferous for more details.
Also note that if you’re allergic to shrimp or lobster, chances are pretty high that you’ll get a reaction from eating insects.
It was an advisory from last year’s cicadae boom in the US.
They taste so, so good, but if I'm presented with them unshelled/unprepared, I have to try hard to silence my revulsion as I pull off insect-like legs while it stares at me with its insect-like beady eyes :(