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Why do we not eat carnivore meat?

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Carnivores would also be (in a wild sense, not raising them) more dangerous to eat because pollutants would amass in them from eating other things.
 
I'm part of the crowd that considers fish meat. It's an animal, you eat it's flesh, it's meat. Lots of fish species we eat are carnivores. Salmon for example.
 
western countries used to eat shark all the time back before truth in advertising. stores used to sell "swordfish" steaks that people would buy up by the pounds. then when they were forced to label it as shark, the market dried up.
 
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Chickens will eat worms and insects.

Also, plenty of people eat dogs and cats.

Meat cost more to feed a domesticated animal, hence, it's much to expensive to domesticate an exclusive carnivore.
 
Because you don't want to piss off the rest of them obviously.

You eat a cow, who cares what another cow is going to do to you. They are dumb and slow. Worse case they'll stand in the middle of the road so you smash your car into them in hopes that you die.

You eat a tiger, you won't even see death coming until another has collapsed your trachea and broken your neck in revenge.
 
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Schadenfreude said:
Like for instance, wolves, tigers, etc.

Instead we eat domesticated grazers - and of course it's obviously easier to domesticate an animal that you won't eat you while you're asleep, but then again we've domesticated dogs and cats as animals; not exactly carnivores per se, but their ancestors seem closely related to one at the very least.

So outside of the obvious dangers, why do we not eat carnivore meat? Does it not taste all that great?
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You are also forgetting that it is much harder to produce huge amounts of most Carnivores. Besides it being expensive to feed and raise these things, they do not mate/reproduce well in captivity. They also don't reproduce as often as herbivores like cows, pigs, and chickens.It would be nearly impossible to have a steady supply of something like Tiger meat.
 
Oyeve said:
Only in this country. The middle east and asia eat more goats than any other animal.
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Yes, but I'm not about to move...

In the mean time .. one of my friends at work slaughtered a goat for Eid, so he might hook me up 🙂 Otherwise I often get goat when it's available in restaurants, and there are a lot of restaurants in the Chicago area 🙂
 
we eat way up the foodchain when we eat fish. tuna is practically a wolf.

for the most part we don't eat domesticated predators because, as explained, it costs a lot to feed them. they might also taste funny but i dunno.
 
BurnItDwn said:
Yes, but I'm not about to move...

In the mean time .. one of my friends at work slaughtered a goat for Eid, so he might hook me up 🙂 Otherwise I often get goat when it's available in restaurants, and there are a lot of restaurants in the Chicago area 🙂
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Goat is damn good. 🙂
 
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