Bioaccumulation of mercury, lead, etc., or too many vitamins: the more organisms in total eaten on the way to the one you eat. Herbivores have significantly fewer. A few bites of polar bear liver will send you into acute vitamin A overdose with permanent effects, if not death. Another one: Why Don’t We Eat Carnivores?
They’re really unpleasant to eat - much like a tarantula they’re basically all exoskeleton and that makes them a bit like chewing a big mouth full of fried peanut shells. But flavor-wise the meat is actually pretty tasty!
Same way we decide which animals to eat and which to pet I guess
If it sings with you then it’s a friend, if it doesn’t then it’s food.
Pet/food decisions are mostly based on carnivore/herbivore type. Eating carnivorous animals poisons us over time, among other issues. Video about it: Why Predator Meat is Literally Poison (It’s Not What You Think)
How on Earth is it poison…
Bioaccumulation of mercury, lead, etc., or too many vitamins: the more organisms in total eaten on the way to the one you eat. Herbivores have significantly fewer. A few bites of polar bear liver will send you into acute vitamin A overdose with permanent effects, if not death. Another one: Why Don’t We Eat Carnivores?
Just depends on how hungry you are.
Yes, most of the toxins were discovered and recorded by people who observed the desperate, effectively.
No no no. I would eat a cow. But I would also pet a cow.
I guess it depends if it’s alive or dead.
They were all alive at some point
Living cow: i pets moo cow
Freshly dead cow: no pets 4 u cow
A living cow: pet pet -
With my axe!
Then dead cow: yummy looking beef steak.
Pet the bovine cadaver coward.
Mmm, beef patty.
oh hey a cute living cow pat pat
dissociates
oh hey a yummy looking dead cow
First one, then the other! The order is important…
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There are no animals I wouldn’t eat or pet
What about a scorpion?
They’re really unpleasant to eat - much like a tarantula they’re basically all exoskeleton and that makes them a bit like chewing a big mouth full of fried peanut shells. But flavor-wise the meat is actually pretty tasty!
human?
It’s 2026, doesn’t everyone eat ass?
I’d pet them if they aren’t angry but I can’t say I’ve thought of eating donkeys. Necessity of survival, perhaps?
^ my joke but better