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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ben Affleck" data-source="post: 242334" data-attributes="member: 51064"><p>Insects are inherently dangerous. They can bite and spread diseases. Don’t allow your intellect overcome your instincts. We were designed with and have further evolved instincts of fear and disgust over insects for good reasons. Instincts always trump intellect because instincts were designed by a higher power and evolved over eons. Therefore keeping instincts as pets should be strictly prohibited, and eating them should be forbidden in most cases. This keeping of insects as pets risks infesting homes and even neighbourhoods. And with all the restrictions and bans on effective pesticides infestations are difficult and in some cases impossible to get rid of (bring back DDT !). I know because the apartment building I live in has cockroaches and worst of all bedbugs, they were here when I moved in. Having bedbugs is almost like having a communicable disease because they will get on you and they can get transferred to other people’s homes. Once they get a foothold they are almost impossible to get rid of. Well not actually impossible; you need a powerful pesticide like DDT in mist form repeatedly until they are all gone. The only pesticide you can get in Canada now (the exterminator can’t use either) are not powerful enough and misting isn’t allowed.</p></blockquote><p></p>