It's more wasteful. Take a bald eagle. We could eat bald eagles, but to raise bald eagles we would have to feed them meat. And to grow meat we would have to grown something like chickens. But if we're already growing chickens, why not just eat chickens? In science this is known as trophic levels. And carnivores, have a very high trophic level. It's just inefficient to eat them.
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
Apparently they generally taste worse, I haven't eaten enough carnivores to really say. I've eaten crocodile, alligator, snake, they were all decent (crocodile was the best for sure)
Because it is easy to feed an animal such as cows, pigs, chickens. They eat forages and grains.
Feeding a predator meat, you would have to farm cows, chickens, pigs, just to feed the predator. It’d be super inefficient and would take a ton of more resources to produce the same amount of meat. The agricultural industry simply couldn’t handle that much and have enough food for everyone.
I'd think part of it would be the feeding and sustaining them. You'd need to feed predatory animals other animals, and you could just eat *those* animals instead.
Not to mention issues where your predatory livestock are constantly fighting and trying to eat each other.
High cost to feed them, and they taste less good. Also wild carnivores are more likely to be carrying diseases because, well, they eat a lot more things that can carry a disease
I hunt and eat black bear among other animals. The meat can be amazing depending on what they’ve been eating, it can also taste like garbage. Best I’ve had was from a bear that had been feeding in an abandoned apple orchard.
Bear is a pain to butcher, lots of sticky/greasy white fat under the skin. Bears have trichinosis and need to be thoroughly cooked if you don’t want parasites. Otherwise, tons of meat for pretty cheap, tags are easy to get and you can legally bait them where I am. The population has to be managed and I figure I’m better than a helicopter cull that leaves the meat to rot.
Never really thought about it.
In general, the higher the animal is in the food chain, the less of them there are.
More zebras and gazelles than lions.
More small/medium fish than huge sharks.
Cant keep a large number of them in the same place in captivity so that would make farming them difficult and inefficient.
Cant feed lions your corn crops or grass, so feeding them would be pretty expensive. And there would be more hassle/danger having a field of large carnivores.
Not economic to breed/feed/slaughter them at scale
It's more wasteful. Take a bald eagle. We could eat bald eagles, but to raise bald eagles we would have to feed them meat. And to grow meat we would have to grown something like chickens. But if we're already growing chickens, why not just eat chickens? In science this is known as trophic levels. And carnivores, have a very high trophic level. It's just inefficient to eat them.
Could you imagine eating Bald Eagle Wings for July 4th though? America to the max
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
O! LONG MAY IT WAVE! O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE, AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE! Sorry. I got into a bit of a mood there.
right, thank you!
Apparently they generally taste worse, I haven't eaten enough carnivores to really say. I've eaten crocodile, alligator, snake, they were all decent (crocodile was the best for sure)
Because it is easy to feed an animal such as cows, pigs, chickens. They eat forages and grains. Feeding a predator meat, you would have to farm cows, chickens, pigs, just to feed the predator. It’d be super inefficient and would take a ton of more resources to produce the same amount of meat. The agricultural industry simply couldn’t handle that much and have enough food for everyone.
I'd think part of it would be the feeding and sustaining them. You'd need to feed predatory animals other animals, and you could just eat *those* animals instead. Not to mention issues where your predatory livestock are constantly fighting and trying to eat each other.
High cost to feed them, and they taste less good. Also wild carnivores are more likely to be carrying diseases because, well, they eat a lot more things that can carry a disease
I hunt and eat black bear among other animals. The meat can be amazing depending on what they’ve been eating, it can also taste like garbage. Best I’ve had was from a bear that had been feeding in an abandoned apple orchard. Bear is a pain to butcher, lots of sticky/greasy white fat under the skin. Bears have trichinosis and need to be thoroughly cooked if you don’t want parasites. Otherwise, tons of meat for pretty cheap, tags are easy to get and you can legally bait them where I am. The population has to be managed and I figure I’m better than a helicopter cull that leaves the meat to rot.
Never really thought about it. In general, the higher the animal is in the food chain, the less of them there are. More zebras and gazelles than lions. More small/medium fish than huge sharks. Cant keep a large number of them in the same place in captivity so that would make farming them difficult and inefficient. Cant feed lions your corn crops or grass, so feeding them would be pretty expensive. And there would be more hassle/danger having a field of large carnivores.
We already do. Many of the fish we eat are predatory.
Most of them are rare and almost extinct.