They are meat the same way a cow is meat, but you don't eat the cows hide. If you sell cricket meat then it should be just the "meat" of the cricket, otherwise you are just selling cricket not cricket meat, like selling the corpse of a cow is not selling meat it's selling a dead cow.

Just as you sell lobster, you sell the lobster and then extract the meat later. Just calling the entire lobster meat is also disengenous.