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
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?
Ah, natures way of creating teams in a deathmatch?
If it sings with you then it’s a friend, if it doesn’t then it’s food.
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.
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.
They were all alive at some point
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