Well, it was a long night. I was told it was chicken. Not bad but a bit tough, not sure if that's the meat or the way it was prepared. @Pootle can you tell us your experience?
@LowlandGorilla4 I was only joking (as I like to), is there a long part of a Tapirs tail....? I've eaten quite a diverse array of animals over the years, but the ones I have eaten and would refuse to eat now are Octopus and Frogs. I just like them too much. Other cephalopods reading this, you are still on my menu
If we are realistic about it history shows that if humans are pushed to the point of starvation enough they will eat anything. This includes the more unusual wild animals and domestic companion animals like dogs and cats and of course notoriously our own species through cannibalism. If we are talking about simple subjective preference or taboos surrounding which foods we would eat though I think we all have our own ontologies and boundaries with some species.
So based on the above you are technically saying you would rather eat at McDonalds than die of starvation? wow, you are as tough as nails.
Guinea pigs are my favorite animal, but if I HAD to eat one somehow, I'd travel to South America because in the US, they're mainly a pet animal, in my book.
Well you never know but I would think that the chances of you HAVING to eat a guinea pig would be very low indeed even if you were in South America. Yes, they are a companion pet animal in most of the world I think but in many indigenous Quechua and Aymara communities in the Peruvian, Bolivian, Chilean and Argentinian Andes they are the equivalent of chickens or pigs in terms of just being kept around as livestock until slaughtered for food. Have to admit would personally like to try both guinea pig and capybara meat one day.
My rules: I eat meat if it is domesticated, (although I rarely eat beef). I generally hate seafood, except I love shrimp, which I will only eat if sustainably harvested. I will Not eat unsustainably harvested food (such as bush meat)
I don't think there is a single species I outright wouldn't eat (except for stuff that's poisonous). As long as its captive bred so doesn't harm the wild population, or is sustainably caught for seafood, my general philosophy with food is try everything once.
Just cockroaches. Some bugs are delicious (I've had crickets and larvaes once), but cockroaches most likely would contain some sort of creamy stuff inside of it that repulses me from even just crushing it. Other than that, there are not a lot of animals I find not to be eatable. Maybe I would prefer not to eat cats/dogs because of their common association with pets, but other than that, I would probably ate them all.
Whilst its Easter time, I would like to ask this eggy question on this animal eating thread. Why do vegans often not eat free range (organic or not) eggs? I keep a small number of hens (7 now) who die of natural causes, they have a large pen, (with roofing & guttering, so no mud baths) a house to roost and lay in and perches outside should they choose to roost outside. I think they are quite pampered, so why would a vegan not eat what they do naturally?
Yeah roaches strike me as unpalatable too, I don't think I'd ever eat them unless I was starving to death or something. That said, not all primates have our aversion to chowing down on roaches and our marmosets absolutely love them and go nuts for hunting and eating them. I suppose they are the marmoset equivalent of a hamburger or something.
I don't know because I am not a vegan and actually don't like their ideology at all but I was curious by your question and after a brief google search and some quick browsing of vegan forums apparently some vegans do consume eggs that are produced from organically raised chickens. However, it appears that there is a fierce debate within the vegan community about whether doing so would disqualify someone from being vegan and just "downgrade" them into being an "ovovegetarian".
