Fernando looks at the floor but the bug was gone. He goes back looking at Jeanette, "If it did not matter, it should be left alone. If this place does not keep up it's cleanliness and allows vermin to crawl about the place, then maybe we should not eat there. Who knows what has crawled or fell into the food? Do they even wash their hands after using the bathroom? It's a chance you take everyday."
 
Without looking at his food, he cuts a strip of his steak with the precision of a surgeon and then cuts the strip in half  before putting it in his mouth. A few chews and then he swallows the meat, "This is not the best I ever had but then again under the circumstances I'll give it a passing mark."

"Where one lives depends on what they consider vermin. In New York where I come from, vermin includes mice, rats, birds - pigeons and seagulls, and certain insects. It also included certain negative members of society." Fernando explains, adding, "If Chihiro is going to eat a another live snack, then I do not want her near me. She should know that rabies is high in certain edibles, and though it might be tasty to her, it might be the last meal she will have. Since Rabies has a incubation period of one week to one year no one knows if and or when she got it, so if she starts foaming at the mouth before we get to Texas - I'm putting a couple of rounds into her head and put her out of her misery. She would be so lucky to chomp down on a poison immune yet poison laden yum-yum, and it will kill her before she can burp. So she needs to stop her extra snacking."  He turns to Chihiro, "No disrespect to you, girl. You need to control those urges because you are going to get yourself killed doing that. Little, if nothing is safe in this world."

He just shakes his head before putting a couple of pieces of cut steak into his mouth.

"Depends on the fish and the water it came out from. Salmon should be safe raw. Not trout, Bass Catfish or Sunfish. But you need to cut up the fish and inspect it's flesh. It could have cancer, and eating that flesh with cancer can give you that cancer. Same with parasites. So you need to inspect it first. After inspecting it, then you could cook it. Do not eat it raw."

"You need to do a lot more than clean a fish before you can eat it. When you gut it, you need to look at the guts. The liver should be dark purple - almost black, mushy and smooth, not bumpy or with other colors like green or yellow. The intestines need to be pink in color with occasional dark lines about it, which are the veins on the intestines. The gills should be bright red at the outer area and dark red in the inner area. If you filet the meat, look at the grain - it should follow its pattern from end to end like the grain on wood; a knot in that grain would be a suspect area for a parasite or cancer area. If you cut it in steaks, look at how it forms the grain in that area. Feel it - if there are hard ball like areas or a bloody ball, suspect for cancer or parasites. This way you inspect the fish before you cook it. Cooking will kill parasites and cancer areas if you use high heat and flash cook it. But the cancer's DNA still in there so best to cut it out and cook and eat the rest, that is if the cancer has not spread to the rest of the fish." He explains. He adds, "Smell it, does it smell like not much of anything or does it have a strong fishy smell. Though a fish should smell like a fish, it should be a light smell and not a strong smell to it. A strong fish smell means that there is something wrong with it. Look at the eyes. It is clear or cloudy? Cloudy eyes means that the fish is sick or dying; it also mean if you buy from the market that is has been caught days ago and is beginning to rot. It is not good to eat. Best to grind it up and use it as soil fertilizer. The body should be smooth, not lumpy. Lumps on a caught fish means cancer, parasites or illness. If you caught it, throw it back. If it's from market, do not buy it. It's no good. And know the water where it came from. Is it from a clean source or is it a polluted source? And what kind of pollution? Sewage, chemical, nuclear? In our time - there was a nuclear accident known as Chernobyl. Nearby there is a lake and in that lake, the catfish there are polluted with nuclear run-off from the dead and festering power plant. Feeding from the nuclear waste, they grew over 200 pounds and 9ft in length, and they are still growing to this day. They are not safe to eat. So - you are what you eat. Know what you are about to eat before you eat it."