Cambodians began eating tarantulas during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), when millions starved after the state dismantled the entire food system. -Markets were abolished. -Private property was banned. -Food was confiscated by the state. -Traditional fishing and foraging were prohibited. -Urban people with no farming knowledge were forced into the fields. People were forced into agricultural collectives, worked from dawn to night, given impossible production quotas, and punished when crops f