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And inversely, "Consider the Lobster"

Even in the harsh penal environment of early America, some colonies had laws against feeding lobsters to inmates more than once a week because it was through to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats.

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

To be fair, the first person to look at a lobster and think to eat it must have been desperate.

For sure. Then that early gourmand saw a snail, and frog legs, the. Turned around and saw their own dog.

Afterwards was reincarnated as Anthony CookingShowEatAnythingDude Bourdain.

Not grinding them into paste whole certainly helped sell them as suitable for human consumption.

The reverse often happens, too!

Anytime I see grits on the menu at a fancy restaurant for $15 I chuckle to myself quietly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC0sKCS5oA

Oh man, that explains why every damned thing was gelatin in my 50's and early 60's cookbooks.