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What is the taboo against eating carnivorous animals such as fox, bear, cat, wolf etc when its perfectly ok (unless you're a vegetarian) to eat chicken, sheep, cow, rabbit, etc.

Is there anyone out there who does eat carnivourous animals?

2006-08-23 03:29:44 · 40 answers · asked by garden sunbather 1 in Food & Drink Other - Food & Drink

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I've eaten bear steaks (aboard the Trans- Siberian express) and my butcher says he can get me some crocodile steaks - haven't yet tried them, but I see no reason not to.

2006-08-23 03:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

yes I eat fox coyote and bear relatively regularly because i am a hunter and i eat what i kill. but i also am a environmental biology major in college. The reason most people dont eat predators is that as each level of the food chain increases the amount of toxins in the organism. Think of this 500 bugs eat a pesticide then just before they all die a small mammal eats those 500 bugs. well when there are 20 of those small mammals that get eaten by single fox the concentration of the pesticide inthe fox is much greater that it is in the single bug because of the sheer number of critters the fox has eaten. then a coyote comes along and eats20 of these foxes that have eaten 20 small mammals that have eaten 500 infected bug a piece that that coyote has more toxin that the fox because he ate more foxes. then when i eat the coyote then i inherantly ingest all of those toxins from the 200000 bugs that had been eaten by the creatures below me in the food chain. eating a cow or a deer or a moose is like eating the first level of the food chain the bug except the large mammal will not have had pesticides so the level of toxins in those animalsare much small than that of a preditory animal

2006-08-23 03:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Carnivors are at the top of the food chain, therefore they are expensive to rear, as they need to be fed on other animals. The higher up the food chain you go the greater the level of accumulated toxins in the flesh (particularly the fat) so in the main it is safer to eat those animals from lower down the food chain i.e. herbivors

My chickens are somewhat carnivorous given the chance, they love slugs, caterpillars and other creepy crawlies, and their very favorite is cat food and the debris from a prawn feast.

2006-08-23 03:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Iv eaten most things , but i have found that any Carnivorous animal has a very bad taste ... Fox is very bad but dog is nice in a curry... / Cat is very much like rabbit .. i don't do this as a rule but from my days in the Army ... Food is food.. Life or death.

I don't think we will see Dog etc in our local Tesco's for a long time... its all down to what we see as food .. and most are a bit blinked to what can and should be eaten.

2006-08-23 03:44:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Maybe it could date back to when poison bait was put down for animals which were a threat to our livestock. These poisoned animals did not always die straight away, also,sometimes they'd ingested something that had been poisoned...hence the meat of that animal could have dire results if consumed by humans! Cooking does not destroy poison. Vino may like chicken, but I have a few free range chickens and they eat slugs worms and insects while they forage about although I feed them on corn. So chickens are not natual vegetarians!

2006-08-29 00:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by coolbythepool23# 2 · 0 0

I became a vegetarian for two reasons: one it is healthier and two--I have become a nature lover spending a lot of time among wild and given the chance--dangerous animals. Before my conversion I ate mountain chicken--a type of long legged mountain frog and whale meat. Two changes I have noticed, I do not give off the aura of a carnivore. That means I get greater trust and respect from wild animals. Wild animals attack to defend themselves, to protect their young and their turf , when they are agitated and when there is an intimidating presence. our perspiration sends signals of aggression based on the types of food we eat.
That said--people who hunt wild animals will tell you that the hunted will, given a chance become the hunter. Over centuries, humankind decided to separate types of animals--domestic pets, work-related animals and those reared for food. The cheapest were the herbivores. As we began to lose forest cover, certain types of animals became endangered. Protectionist laws abide in certain countries and in other countries whereby humans live the way they did 10,000 years ago, the men still go out and hunt what is available. In short: geography, culture, ease of preparation and storage, commercial viability, availability, religious/culinary likes and dislikes determine such.
Boaz.

2006-08-31 01:43:12 · answer #6 · answered by Boaz 4 · 0 0

In the states we do eat bear, snake and gator meat in different parts of the country. As for cats and foxes they are more of a nuisance and difficult to hunt. A lot of the species of cats and fox are endangered so putting them on a plate would be a problem.

2006-08-23 03:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by Glune 3 · 0 0

Good question! My guess is that animals that eat other animals are more prone to giving us diseases. Ok, maybe that's a stretch, but they HAVE to have a more gamey taste to them. People say that sometimes deer or lamb can taste like game, or have a wild taste to them. Many chickens and cows have been specially-bred for eating (others for their eggs or milk). They're cornfed, or fed grains to taste better to us. Plus, there are all those people who don't like humans eating any kind of animal, and who protest loudly and create organizations. Hmmm...since I seem to be getting off-track, I'll just stop typing now.

2006-08-23 03:42:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

Main reason I guess is the problem with keeping them, wouldn't want to feed sheep every day to eat a bear at the end of the year, is a bit of waste, not to eat the sheep, no? And you wouldn't really want to send your little daughter to feed the wolves either, would ya?
So I think it's more historical than ethnic and honestly, I try everything that is eatable.

2006-08-27 04:30:04 · answer #9 · answered by schebes 2 · 0 0

There is no taboo, I think it is just that grass eating animals are easier to tame & herd . Also we eat animals that are easy to breed and also not very valuable. Horses & camels for instance are not usually eaten because they are valuable in nomadic societies.
In southen parts of China everything is eaten. Old saying they will eat anything with 4 legs except a table.

2006-08-23 03:39:50 · answer #10 · answered by XiaoMei 2 · 0 0

Personally I'm partial to a bit of carnivore, especially in the form of a bacon sandwich. I've also eaten crocodile, shark and dogfish, and I'm fairly sure one of the local restaurants was using cat instead of chicken at one point!!

2006-08-23 03:36:59 · answer #11 · answered by AndyG45 4 · 0 0

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