> Why don't we eat carnivores?

Why don't we eat carnivores?

Posted at: 2014-11-15 
Like karma said, it is mostly because there aren't enough carnivores to keep everyone fed. There aren't enough wild ones to hunt and they would be too expensive to domesticate. Also, while I've never tasted a land dwelling carnivore to tell you for sure, I'm guessing they aren't very tasty or I would have heard of coyote delicacies and dingo stew.

Actually many countries around the world eat carnivores. Haven't you ever heard about Asians eating dogs? JK. Anyway the reason we don't mass domesticate wolfs and other carnivores is well it would be hard to feed. Think about how much feed is needed for cattle. Thats like cheap stuff relative to feeding carnivores since meat in most cases is more costly than other food. This feeding cost does not give enough profit for farmers and such. Also there aren't many carnivores since in a predator-prey realtionship predators are way less abundant than prey. Wolfs are not creatures we need to eat more of since they have became close to extinction, but is growing now.

Some people do. For instance the Chinese and Koreans eat dog meat. And bugs are eaten in many parts of Asia and North Africa. Grasshoppers in honey for instance, or witchity grubs eaten by the Aborigines in Australia, but they aren't carnivores.

In a food market in Irkutsk, Siberia I saw some pale strips of meat for sale and asked what they were. They were pig's ears. Next to them were some similar, but darker, strips. They turned out to be dog's ears. It was a North Korean stall.

I've always wondered about this. I know the possibility of how the history may transpire, but I wonder what wolf meat would taste like. I'm always looking for meat sources after all. I would try bugs but some of them are a bit icky to me.