Why Don't We Eat Carnivores?

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Humans eat a lot of different animals, but almost none of them are carnivores - why?
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@MinuteEarth Месяц назад

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@GamerDuDimanche1456 Месяц назад

I have a question for the team, did you use a text to speech gpt to do the ad read at the end ? It sounds different from the rest of the video?

@sarahjberman Месяц назад

@@GamerDuDimanche1456 hi! editor here. no AI was used - all Kate as always, just a different take edited differently than the main portion. Apologies for the uncanniness in the transition :)

@CoveQuackers Месяц назад

Watch ordinary sausage too if you wanna see more

@bbgun061 Месяц назад

I've read that early American settlers would eat anything they could hunt. (The flavor varied greatly.) It's likely that most people living in wilderness areas throughout history did the same. But once most of the carnivores have been hunted, all that's left are the herbivores. (And with no predators, their population increases.) It's much easier to domesticate herbivores. Now why not just eat the plants instead? The reason is that most livestock eat plants that humans can't eat.

@dahawk8574 Месяц назад

3:53 - I would like to see a video on us eating the plants directly. That would be wonderful.

@imveryangryitsnotbutter Месяц назад

CGP Grey summarized it best: "Ten pounds of grass make a pound of cow, and ten pounds of cow make a pound of tiger. But cow and tiger have the same amount of calories, so you might as well just eat the cow."

@ArpanDe Месяц назад

Might as well eat dirt 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🥶🥶🤢🤢

@NickWrightDataYT Месяц назад

But Kate also made a good point--if humans just ate the grass (really grain/corn), it'd be even more efficient!

@martinketchum Месяц назад

@@NickWrightDataYT good thing we are now cows

@matthewboyd8689 Месяц назад

Hence why veganism would cost less if it weren't for the subsidies provided to the meat industry And having 1/10 as much farmland would mean 1/10 as much chemical runoff, also fixing the problem of the Dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

@davidegaruti2582 Месяц назад

@@NickWrightDataYTthe logic of veganism ... We already use soy to grow cattles so why not eat soy ?

@lonelyPorterCH Месяц назад

I could think of many things: - their diet is too expensive - you cannot herd them - they might attack you - they are probably territorial, no chance of having lots of them in a small area

@duran9664 Месяц назад

❌ WRONG❌WRONG❌WRONG❌ People eat what easy to hunt & control🤷‍♀️ We would have eat each other if it easy to hunt humans, control them & eat them🤏

@AiNaKa Месяц назад

@@duran9664 they literally just said that they're not easy to hunt or control so how is it wrong

@harthroth Месяц назад

@@AiNaKait's a bot dawg

@jackychen7769 Месяц назад

@@harthroth it does seem to be a bot, but it's a bit weird how its comment is tailored to the video

@simonPARK-lv8fi Месяц назад

@harthroth Maybe not, it's related to the vid... probably just a person?

@pra8k Месяц назад

You missed the basic point, carnivores usually reproduce at lower numbers and lower frequency than herbivores. It is easier to extinct tigers than sheep.

@elkoku2002 24 дня назад

That's not true, cows born one by one, tigers have a litter of 3 or more cubs per season, the problem is that adult tigers do not coexist peacefully.

@The_Gallowglass 21 день назад

I think we also have an unspoken alliance with carnivores--or better put---hunters. We respect them. As long as they don't bother us we don't bother them (mostly). That and they're a lot more clever than herbivores.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@Javier64691 21 день назад

I don’t think that’s really a point since companies would just overproduce to compensate for the lower frequency. It’s most likely a bunch of those reasons to make the whole picture.

@dm3280 19 дней назад

Yeah, it's already obvious. Why would early humans go for a single dangerous tiger that will literally turn you into its prey, rather than a herd of sheep that's easier to catch. And pretty sure the big boys won't easily get swayed like the early dogs.

@maheshwarannarayanan 25 дней назад

Back in the old days, carnivores were harder to hunt and the reward to risk ratio was not worth it, in the present times, it is very difficult and inefficient to grow carnivores for food, so it is highly practical to eat herbivores

@tackytaco8133 21 день назад

There was nothing harder to hunt for humans, like carnivorous fish example was given.

@hansvonmannschaft9062 21 день назад

@@tackytaco8133 What? Oh lord... "nothing harder to hunt", sure, a grazing deer or cow ancestor would've been just as trivial to hunt as a sabertooth tiger. /facepalm. Oh BUT WAIT! - Gets better: the fantastic counterargument is that we've hunted (and still do)... carnivorous fish! Argh... I just felt millions of braincells shouting in pain...

@cyberyousef7519 18 дней назад

No its because allah made it haram for us to eat them

@MintsClassic 3 дня назад

Indeed hunting big Carnivores is risky, but there are also many small carnivores that can be hunted without risk (foxes, raccoons, or small cat species). Also many herbivores were/are dangerous to hunt, big ungulates like elks, mammoths or buffalos.

@hansvonmannschaft9062 3 дня назад

@@MintsClassic Yes, that'd be true, but what the guy above me said was in response to the other guy above us, but wrong, and... being merciful... pitful, in a way. And let's leave it there. In any case, there's nothing to argue with your point m'friend. Have a good one.

@AM-uk7jv Месяц назад

Conversely for seafood, we humans predominantly eat carnivorous fish, while we rarely eat herbivorous fish. Herbivore fish taste like the plants they eat. Which isn't good.

@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214 Месяц назад

I think the reason why is because there aren’t that many of them and they aren’t very large either. Whereas Tuna, Salmon, etc can get pretty large, taste good and because we don’t farm them, we don’t have to pump resources into them

@davidegaruti2582 Месяц назад

Oceanic food webs just operate on another level

@Merennulli Месяц назад

It's not about taste. There just aren't very many, they're not particularly big, and they have a significant risk of being toxic. People eat them anyway, but it's not common because it's not efficient.

@freerolll Месяц назад

What about sardines and shrimp.

@Merennulli Месяц назад

@@freerolll I think the specific species (plural) of shrimp are carnivorous, but you are right about sardines being omnivores.

@RustedCrown11 Месяц назад

i find it really funny you use an aligator in a farm as an example of "we don't farm carnivores" when infact we litterally have aligator farms for their meat in Louisiana

@TrainerGoldAlt Месяц назад

thats mostly for their skin right?

@klungar Месяц назад

@@TrainerGoldAlt I've eaten gator on multiple occasions, in restaurants and otherwise. It's definitely a bit of an outlier here.

@xToddmcx Месяц назад

I noticed that but I don't think you can argue that it's common or makes up a significant portion of human eaten meat.

@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Месяц назад

@@TrainerGoldAlt but the meat rather than ended in dump, better consumed by anyone who wants to taste it

@RustedCrown11 Месяц назад

@@TrainerGoldAlt for the skin and the meat, the meat is like a really good cross between fish and chicken

@fabiobeka 25 дней назад

I'm no expert but hunting or herding tigers seems a lot harder then hunting or herding rabbits.

@M7Teen7 26 дней назад

That one episode from JoJo's Golden Wind where mista discusses cannibalism:

@dracodracarys2339 18 дней назад

knew there was gonna be a jojo reference here somewhere

@fin5887 5 дней назад

Was looking for this comment

@RafaelSilva-ew2gt Месяц назад

You are not even considering that hunting a deer is significantly easier than hunting a cougar

@avu2888 Месяц назад

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@foxx1275 Месяц назад

Right alongside the idea that they would be less safe to eat this is what occurred to me first. When you hunt a deer, rabbit or whatnot, you are the predator, and they are the prey trying to get away from you. With a carnivore, you are both hunters, and it becomes a much more dangerous game.

@ronald3836 Месяц назад

I'm hunting cougars at the moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 and can confirm.

@AymenDZA Месяц назад

Especially when the cougar also considers hunting you just as much !

@nuklearboysymbiote Месяц назад

@@avu2888 LMAO😭😭😭😭

@ommin202 Месяц назад

For most of human history, eating a carnivore would've just been HARD. Why fight a bear for it's meat when you could hunt a deer, where you'd be less likely to get injured and die? Then as a course, we'd never develop the taste/immune system/etc. for eating predators.

@user-yj8mh1uk8r Месяц назад

Also - there might be 20 or more deer for each wolf in the neighbourhood, so it's much easier to hunt the deer.

@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 Месяц назад

Actually hunting is the only reliable way to eat carmnivores and we have proof than ancient humans regurarly ate carnivores

@katokianimation Месяц назад

Most bears are omnivores but the point is still valid.

@runronnierun7213 Месяц назад

I think the first part of what of what you said is correct. I don't know about the taste/ immune system part. It makes sense that herd animals would be the choice to hunt over more solitary animals, which is also why we eat fish that are predators, as they tend to swim in schools. It's about calories per effort. The Native Americans knew it was much more cost effective to herd a group of buffalo over a cliff than to hunt down solitary predators.

@defeqel6537 Месяц назад

isotope analysis suggests that we ate other carnivores too

@Badpoison1 28 дней назад

I've had lion burgers, bear jerky, grilled shark, and snake every way you can think to cook it.

@paloma_oni 19 дней назад

Well.....how they taste?

@billmccullough777 17 дней назад

Those taste good.Lots of bear recipes available. Bear roast is delicious. Pay attention to meat temperature!

@Badpoison1 17 дней назад

@@paloma_oni unremarkable surprisingly enough

@randomperson4198 16 дней назад

@@paloma_onii don't know about the ones they mentioned but i tasted crocodile i think?or is it alligator whatever it is.It taste like fish but has hardness as chicken or the other way round i forgot. My family got it as a souvenir and I'd say they taste alright so the we So it's definitely not because of taste. Maybe combination - efficiency - stigma - safety

@Handleem03 14 дней назад

Also Gator dogs

@rinardis6020 29 дней назад

putting the ad to the end is a W + nice vid overall, deserves a like

Месяц назад

I'll add another possible reason: humans used to be hunter-gatherers, and hunting a carnivore probably was way too dangerous to be worth the effort

@komiks42 Месяц назад

Yea. I assume if they killed it in defense, they might eat it but hunting to eat it? Dangerous

@akbarkhan-nq3xl Месяц назад

I wouldn't be so sure on that hypothesis as a discovery was made in Africa in Kenya or Tanzania that homo erectus regularly hunted carnivorous in that area for food

@AintNoFossil Месяц назад

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail, but I'm appalled that an evolutionary perspective wasn't considered in the video.

@cj-seejay-cj-seejay Месяц назад

Yes, I thought of this, too. Especially since it also explains why we would have an exception for carnivorous fish: fish generally aren't as dangerous as carnivorous land animals.

@LinebaKKer Месяц назад

This was my idea

@skylergarza8371 Месяц назад

"We don't eat carnivores" *looks at my bowl of alligator gumbo*

@DeadjokeIknow Месяц назад

It's probably more efficient to eat alligator compared to other carnivores because unlike warm blooded animals that turn only 10 percent of food into mass and the rest into heat and energy the alligator turns about 70 percent into mass and relays on the sun for heat

@ahassan5 Месяц назад

We are not in China

@yektaagra741 Месяц назад

@@ahassan5 its also a delicacy in Australia i believe. They say it tastes like chicken and the tail has a pretty good texture Edit: Turns out there are crocodiles in Australia, not alligators

@itsov5033 Месяц назад

Was just finna say that. Like- I'm definitely eating fried gator

@Labyrinth6000 Месяц назад

Fried gator = Mmm

@EmethMatthew 25 дней назад

A major factor with the whole "it's more efficient to get the calories from plants" things seems to be that mostly humans got their calories from meat because of there being lots of inedible plants in an area so the animals were about to convert those inaccessible calories into edible calories. Otherwise it seems that most humans get their calories from plants much more often in regions where growing edible plants was most favorable...

@jcarleezy 5 дней назад

Yeah... Humans don't eat grass. Vegans try to make this argument often and it's ridiculous.

@pocopoco3468 5 дней назад

China:- bro theres nothing like omnivorous carnivorous, all animals or insects which moves we can eat.

@JanSenCheng Месяц назад

I think you kinda missed what's imo the big one: we don't just eat herbivores, we specifically eat ruminants and fowl (and pork, which is also the most common meat, but I'll get back to that), which are animals that eat grass and seeds. Specifically, those are things that human derive little to no nutrition from, but are incredibly abundant. For most of human history (really, all of it prior to the Second Agricultural Revolution), we didn't grow food to feed animals, we just let them graze on otherwise unused grassland or hay, which is effectively a byproduct of the grains we actually eat. As such, they were basically a way of converting inedible plant matter into stuff we can actually eat. Pigs are the big exception to that, in that they don't eat grasses primarily. However, they do eat anything. All of the waste and scraps that get produced by people can be fed to pigs, and they'll also happily find food in an otherwise barren field. Basically, the reason we eat those animals primarily is just because those animals were effectively no-effort food sources at a time when food production was the vast majority of human labour.

@computo2000 Месяц назад

This comment wins the question.

@leightongardner7822 Месяц назад

This should get pinned well said. It makes sense that we'd find the most efficient way to satisfy our need for food and what could be easier than eating animals that eat the stuff we don't eat or need makes perfect sense... imagine trying to catch antelope to feed to your leopard so you can eat it 😂😂

@argentin2306 Месяц назад

The pig is a tricky one though, if you only feed it trash, the meat will taste like trash, unless you fed it good quality food the last few months of it life, making its meat mid quality, but if you fed it with high quality food all its life, you end up with good quality meat (let's ignore for a moment the different breeds and how the environment can influence on the quality)

@SeventhEve Месяц назад

Yes, and this points out a very good reason why the religion hypothesis doesn't really hold up: both Judaism and Islam prohibit pork, and yet it is the most consumed meats on the planet. If that were a cultural factor, it would mean western cultures would not eat so much of it.

@someguy2135 Месяц назад

Since the 2nd Agricultural Revolution, we waste a huge amount of resources like land and fresh water to produce animal products. Animal agriculture is the top cause of deforestation, and biodiversity loss. It is also a major cause of climate change, water pollution, ocean dead zones, and the threat of zoonotic diseases, and antibiotic resistance. It is long past the time to change to a plant based food production system!

@Krypto137 Месяц назад

A point about the inefficiency of cows, though, which I think is important to point out Historically, raising cattle (not just cows but sheep and goats too) was done in areas where it was hard to grow crops, but where grass grew readily. Humans can't eat grass, so it was an easy way to turn inedible calories into edible ones. It didn't matter that it took 10000 calories of grass to make 1000 calories of cow because those 10000 calories of grass were useless to us. It wasn't that different from the fish example. Then we started growing crops to feed the cattle tho, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the cattle in the first place. But originally at least, it made perfect sense.

@Aronsr2004 Месяц назад

another point is that our digestion systems are significantly less adapted for grass than a cow is, so regardless of how many calories exist in grass we can't directly benefit from it without farming animals who do have digestion systems capable of digesting said grass.

@Croz89 Месяц назад

Even now, it *sort* of does. Some percentage of a harvest of say, wheat is usually pretty poor quality, you might eat it if you were starving and it would be pretty horrible (it would probably be grits or porridge because the protein content is too low for bread or pasta), but in an otherwise abundant food environment, it's going to go to waste. There are also fodder crops like alfalfa that grow more readily in poor soil but are also not very nutritious for humans. Finally there's waste products from the food industry like sugar beet pulp or molasses. Not to say high quality human edible grains are not fed to cattle sometimes, especially in the US where it is extremely cheap to produce, but there's still a lot of sources of animal feed which could not be easily diverted for human use.

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

Just like you said. Additionally, for millions of years of human history and teens of thousands of years of history, animals and land was plentiful until very very recently. Herbivores were pests in agricultural areas, especially after dangerous carnivore threats/competitors were eliminated. So hunting deer, elk, antelope, horse, rabbit, etc. became a necessity and it still is. And they are delicious and nutritious, and can be excellently paired with plants and drinks.

@victory8928 Месяц назад

another point is food waste and bad crops and forage. Stuff we gathered that we can’t eat so we feed it to what we can eat

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

@@Croz89Yea forage cover crops with livestock can actually improve soils in degraded land reversing deserts. Every thing in nature has a purpose but people try demonize livestock ,When we caused more harm through industrial waste. But they wont focus on that part because of all the oil companies

@0vercrafted 21 день назад

I thought the deer looking like Deerling was just me being too Poképilled but then I saw the other animals. Nice nod, even got a shiny in there.

@gurjeetchannasingh3925 23 дня назад

Great!! 👏 Always needed this kind of appropriate answer.

@robertmcauslan6191 Месяц назад

This is more “why we don’t farm carnivores” more so than “why we don’t eat carnivores”. We eat plenty of carnivores but farm very little of them.

@SiphesihleSihle-tj6vy Месяц назад

Very good

@tinachristine4573 Месяц назад

True. We eat crocodile meat.

@elijahknox4421 Месяц назад

@@tinachristine4573yeah while watching this video I was thinking, I've had crocodile, everyone with me liked it and the meat was very soft

@murraykelm5691 Месяц назад

They are farmed ,but for their fur not their meat

@Wolfntee Месяц назад

Tuna too! @tinachristine4573

@carlramirez6339 Месяц назад

Thank you for convincing me to not take up cannibalism.

@ZeGamerZ- Месяц назад

@aimliard2276 Месяц назад

😂 i read somewhere that human meat not only smell bad and the texture a little strange however its close to pig at least that is good

@elijahknox4421 Месяц назад

@@aimliard2276speak for yourself. I hate pork

@spaceman081447 Месяц назад

@@aimliard2276 That's why another term for cannibalism is "long pig."

@amuk4229 Месяц назад

Did you not watch the video? Typical humans would taste bad but grass-fed humans should be delicious.

@ocloudx 27 дней назад

Inefficiency and high cost are the main reasons. If a beef steak need to sell for $20/lbs to make profit, a tiger steak might cost $2000/lbs

@bland9876 26 дней назад

Because of how domesticated dogs and cats are we could probably farm them if we really wanted to.

@mihair2854 25 дней назад

Chinese and Koreans say hello.

@bland9876 24 дня назад

@@mihair2854 I heard that it was actually illegal to do in those countries but they do it anyways like they do with a lot of things over there because Asia sucks apparently. I don't know if it's just the videos I'm getting fed on the internet but I don't see videos about other places that probably should suck too because cartels and s***

@demolisherman1763 Месяц назад

As CGPGray once said, “Thermodynamics”

@U.K.N Месяц назад

Soooo long ago

@tasrickhasan6899 Месяц назад

"We are the top Chicken" -CGP

@hdrodic Месяц назад

Ten pounds of grass make a pound of steak, and ten pounds of steak make a pound of tiger

@David280GG Месяц назад

Gd reference

@bbgun061 Месяц назад

@@hdrodic And we can't eat grass.

@RFakonWolf_Art Месяц назад

I've heard this quote from a hunting channel once. "No meat you cook will taste bad as long as you cook it correct way and put in enough seasoning."

@RabbyArt Месяц назад

yeah any funky meat can be turned delicious by plenty of garlic, pepper, ginger, salt and onions.

@orangejacket4551 Месяц назад

It’s true. Just make sure you check for rabies after..

@RFakonWolf_Art Месяц назад

@@orangejacket4551 And lots of parasite species resistant to heat... So I say, no thanks! 🤣

@fraizie6815 Месяц назад

That just further solidifies the point why carnivores never became popular - to make their meat tender you need to put in a lot of time and energy.

@AnimeIsLayfu Месяц назад

In short, waste. Not just time or ingredients but energy as well. Why make yourself suffer when you can achieve the same thing with lesser effort?

@automation_by_blake Месяц назад

The sun gives grass energy, the cow eats the grass for energy, we eat the cow to get the energy that we couldnt get from the grass/sun.

@dotmakesnoise 19 дней назад

Not many cows are just grass feed, and even so, where the grass is grown, you could grow other crops, like hemp (good for poor land), soy, wheat, etc. We would still use much less land eating these directly then use them to feed cows (or similar mammals). A lot of the Amazonian rain forest distruction is purely for growing soy for cattle feed, so this does have a massive impact on our ecosystems.

@chethanyadav8166 17 дней назад

Well red meat is not good for human diet so it's better not to consume cow

@lilnibba2905 17 дней назад

Then I guess we should not eat grass but become grass to eat sun.

@dotmakesnoise 17 дней назад

@@lilnibba2905 I don't think you understand. You replace the grass pastures with the many other food crops that we can consume. Humans don't need to change to eat soy, hemp, wheat, vegetables, fruit, corn, lentils, etc.

@automation_by_blake 17 дней назад

@@dotmakesnoise yeah you are right, but they digest things differently than us. We still need to eat those veggies ourselves, but the way they digest the food is different and we can't pull the same nutrients in the same way in some cases.

@Absbor 22 дня назад

this is an actual interest topic. thanks for trying

@incineroar9933 Месяц назад

Other carnivores we eat include crustaceans, reptiles, terrapins, cetaceans, pinipeds, and amphibians.

@roseyuen6916 Месяц назад

Also cephalopods, and dogs and cats in some places

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

@@roseyuen6916Lol I never understand that as you might as well eat rabbits, at that point there more efficient but I guess poor starving people eat stray dogs and cats.

@therainbowgulag. Месяц назад

Fish

@duran9664 Месяц назад

❌ WRONG❌WRONG❌WRONG❌ People eat what easy to hunt & control🤷‍♀️ We would have eat each other if it easy to hunt humans, control them & eat them🤏

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

@@duran9664 No we wouldnt do that Its psychopathic

@Jordan-vl8wm Месяц назад

One straightforward reason related to efficiency is that there are significantly more herbivores in nature than carnivores.

@RabbyArt Месяц назад

I'm also 90% sure prey animals give birth more often and have larger litters of offspring. They likely even grow faster than carnivores

@AndrewManook Месяц назад

That's why we were hunter gatherers for most of our history.

@randallbutler6795 Месяц назад

Your reason explains more than the other proposed reasons.

@Fledhyris 28 дней назад

And they're easier to hunt/catch, never mind farm!

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@ArshAmit-hd2le 18 дней назад

The Exotic Meat Market after seeing this video: Hold My Lion Meat.

@allwrightadventures6675 21 день назад

I thought of this question so many times glad there is a video about it

@OddRagnarDengLerstl Месяц назад

The "nasties" idea also applies to fish. Some species of fish are considered less "clean" because of their levels of heavy metals, PCB and other nasties.

@fraizie6815 Месяц назад

Ah yes I love me some fish with a motherboard (PCB) in it /s

@v44n7 Месяц назад

and some societies dont like fish or even people cant eat fish

@warthoggoulags1679 Месяц назад

like thuna

@Sonofdio2019 Месяц назад

@@fraizie6815frr, capacitors are just so 🤤

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@thefourleafclover5316 Месяц назад

Hearing her say nasties is just so weird. Btw for reference the process she mention is called bio accumulation.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@PKmuffdiver 21 день назад

Indeed

@nemesis8131 17 дней назад

@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ok, I do.

@fretzT_T 17 дней назад

@@VeganSemihCyprus33I'm vegetarian but I don't cry like a bitch when someone eat meat. Grow up. Take your vit B12 supplements your brain is weakening

@theblurryblackcat 17 дней назад

I liked it

@frobo 26 дней назад

I like the pokemon refrence at 1:03 :)

@pavelperina7629 14 дней назад

Good catch

@deadlocker1420 Месяц назад

This question randomly came up my mind a few months ago and I finally got an answer

@crayonzii Месяц назад

3:33 That cow has two people going for a kiss on its back!

@dryzalizer Месяц назад

side*

@Cheskoslavia Месяц назад

@@dryzalizer No, it's a chalice!

@DefnitelyNotFred Месяц назад

Well spotted!

@deleted-something Месяц назад

What

@max_me_is Месяц назад

They painted a cow with a Rorschach painting, very cool

@jhonbus Месяц назад

My first thought was that when you decide what animal to go and eat, you're better off choosing one that's unlikely to pull an Uno reverse card on you.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@mystik5551 26 дней назад

the first game advert that actually makes sense definitely checking out the beast lord game Thanks for the video

@ksp6091 15 дней назад

One thing we could add is a link between the efficiency and taste hypothetis : the meat we eat and like is in the most part from animals that have been selected over millenia to taste how we want to (like cattle, chikens etc). And the animals we domesticate cannot be carnivorous because they are harder to feed more dangerous to keep arround

@moo422 Месяц назад

Definitely the inefficiencies/cost for farming. Snakes, Alligator/Crocodile, Shark, Whale, Bear, Seals, are all eaten around the world, but often require hunting/catching in the wild.

@KB-qp7gk Месяц назад

Thank you, finally someone mentioning HUNTING in this topic...

@M33f3r Месяц назад

Snake meat is amazing. Some of the best $50 or so a pound I've ever bought on the extremely rare occasion it is available.,

@bigmoe9856 Месяц назад

Snake and Gator/Croc are an exception due to their methods of digestion/cold blooded factor. A snake only requires you give it a mouse once a week (I'm generalizing a theory, some snake owner can clarrify) while the gator/croc has an entire season where their metabolism basically shuts off. It is therefore cost efficienct to raise these for meat even though you'll be feeding them meat.

@MarianLuca-rz5kk Месяц назад

@@bigmoe9856 Do reptiles grow fast for economic efficiency ?

@bigmoe9856 Месяц назад

@@MarianLuca-rz5kk compared to herbivores, no, this will be an investment on time. But they do have multplie offspring so you'll be working with batches

@d3vi0uz1 Месяц назад

"We don't eat carnivores" Fish: am I a joke to you?

@mr.rocheteau Месяц назад

she mentions them in the vid

@mr.rocheteau Месяц назад

2:43

@S1rRandom Месяц назад

she mentions that in the vid broski

@GabrielMoura-qe3il Месяц назад

I want eat a white shark!

@mr.rocheteau Месяц назад

@@GabrielMoura-qe3il all the power to you

@mahamo9373 26 дней назад

Really appreciate the effort put into this ❤❤

@johantchassem1553 Месяц назад

You forgot horse at the beginning. I once saw horse meat 🍖 at a local store. I was shocked !!

@theMifyoo Месяц назад

I think a big note is hunted meat vs farmed meat. Farmed meat we don't do predators on because of the conversion ratio among other things. As for hunted meat, a lot of people are not hunters. Also in theory it may have to do with availiability. Like if you have to eat multiple animals to keep yourself alive that in theory implies that there must be more of those things. If there was more predators then prey then the predators would end up starving themselves. So if you treat hunting as a random draw you are more likely to get something lower on the peaking order then something higher on the peaking order. You could target those rarer creatures but that would in effect just be drawing more cards/spending more effort.

@ChineduOpara Месяц назад

For the ADHD kids scrolling through, here is the tl;dr version: _"The population math doesn't add up"_ 👈 You're welcome 😊

@xdevantx5870 Месяц назад

This is probably the biggest answer and also why fish are the "exception".

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@Tiffany_Waiting Месяц назад

South East Asians: what are you talking about?

@VergiliarEcaros Месяц назад

We eat anything have 4 legs, unless it’s a chair lol

@oh_k8 Месяц назад

They're not afraid of danger

@GhostRiley-zs8zb Месяц назад

you mean chinese

@northernsnow6982 Месяц назад

Or anyone who has eaten alligators, snakes, or many types of ocean creatures.

@tehkaihong5328 Месяц назад

@@GhostRiley-zs8zb they be snacking too

@glucmaster3187 22 дня назад

Its probably just because hunting them before modern technology was so dangerous we just didn't bother

@jacobringenwald Месяц назад

I always assumed it was because predators are hard to domesticate. The exception is dogs and cats and they are eaten in certain parts of the world, but they're used in other ways regardless.

@PeterSedesse Месяц назад

The dogs they eat in Korea that are raised on farms are fed plant based foods. I was stationed there and there was a dog farm just off base. They are fed basically the same thing pigs are fed. Lots of soybeans etc.

@OtherTheDave Месяц назад

@@PeterSedesse Huh! Well, TIL… thanks!

@MartinX192 Месяц назад

Dogs are omnivores, only cats are carnivores

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018)

@jujunita12345 3 дня назад

when you go higher up the food chain, the more mercury content there is in the organism. less toxicity consuming plants, more toxicity consuming lions/sharks etc

@dannydacheedo1592 21 день назад

3:53 since humans can't digest cellulose properly, we don't get much nutrition from cellulose rich plants, like grass. Since cows can properly digest it and grow as a result, we can use cows as a way to get at least some nutrients from the grass that we wouldn't be able to otherwise

@jgr7487 Месяц назад

I love how this video just ignored alligator farms in Southern US states. They are farmed to be slaughtered for their meat.

@westonding8953 Месяц назад

They had pictures of them. They are not common though.

@alexgrissom3513 Месяц назад

Just as immoral as eating cows and pigs

@hawoaliahmed6996 Месяц назад

@@alexgrissom3513believing that is tantamount to believing human existence is immoral,or/and any other carnivores as well.

@alexgrissom3513 Месяц назад

@@hawoaliahmed6996 nope. You’re arguing what’s called an appeal to nature logical fallacy.

@thefrenchselkie1401 Месяц назад

@@alexgrissom3513 how is it a fallacy? you cant just claim that. You have to explain WHY it's immoral. Say, because eating meat is bad for the environment, and choosing to eat it over more sustainable options is morally wrong because of the negative impact on the environment. Otherwise they're not wrong - there is nothing morally wrong about the concept of eating other animals. It's a fact of survival

@anthonyanth8368 Месяц назад

In Zimbabwe we eat crocodile tail which is a by product from crocodile farms that produce leather for the fashion industry but like the video said it's not that readily available and is very seasonal but tastes great

@jalenwatson4261 Месяц назад

Louisiana,Texas, and Florida does this

@rystafford5781 Месяц назад

@@jalenwatson4261 more so alligator not croc

@rystafford5781 Месяц назад

You can get it anywhere in the US.

@marcusmoonstein242 Месяц назад

We do the same in South Africa. It's expensive and more of a novelty item, but it tastes very similar to chicken.

@anthonyanth8368 Месяц назад

@@marcusmoonstein242 it does. Have you tried it grilled with mixed potato and sweet potato chips. Heavenly.

@A-185gaming10 24 дня назад

4:34 Includes NO PIG AT ALL

@OmegaZ21 День назад

The thing you said about bears in specific seasons also applies to deer and waterfowl. I've heard of people eating bears, wolves, and everything else depending on what's available in that part of the world. Predators are predators so you know a little more dangerous to hunt this is likely the reason we shy away from predators from the beginning. Early man was on the food chain just like everything else.

@iDxnii. Месяц назад

I just found out about this channel and I noticed that the sponsor was at the end of the video You've earned my respect for not ruining the flow of the video by putting the sponsor in the middle

@HappilyCarnivore Месяц назад

People probably put it in the middle because people are less likely to watch it if it's at the end. You've already seen the entire video. It would be like sticking around for the credits. Most people aren't going to do that.

@Nothing2150 Месяц назад

There's dofferent values for where they put the ad role. The middle is the most expensive and the beginning is the least.@@HappilyCarnivore

@FreshSmog Месяц назад

People do eat bear, crocs, frogs, snakes, shark. They're mostly hunted rather than farmed of course.

@119beaker Месяц назад

Bear are omnivores (except polar bears and they aren't generally eaten) the rest are cold blooded and therefore have a much higher efficiency of turning food into meat around 3-4 times better than mammals.

@ZhovtoBlakytniy Месяц назад

People eat cetaceans (whales and such) too. Snapping turtles, sea birds, cats, dogs, seals, spiders, crustaceans

@BapakBuayah 28 дней назад

I like that there is a magikarp there casually

@screenname8267 25 дней назад

I always thought it was (historically) availability and safety. You find prey animals easier, so you eat those more by default. A lot of predators are either massive and dangerous to hunt, pack animals that are dangerous to hunt, or both. I mean, in the southern US, they eat snake and crocodile, which are both predators, because they are abundant and there were (relatively) safe ways to catch them. For the present-day, it seems to be related to ease and cost if farming, and whether the animal is already (mostly) domesticated. That is why there is a push for the establishment of snake farms raising pythons for their meat, as they require very little water relatively low food for a proportionally large amount of meat that grows fairly quickly.

@AaronALAI Месяц назад

Gator meat is a bit of an exception, maybe it is the transition from aquatic to terrestrial animals.

@user-nu8vw1ow4n Месяц назад

Some Japan eat bear meat

@rickwilliams967 Месяц назад

For farming sure. That's it though. Talk to a real hunter and that changes a lot. People eat all sorts of carnivores

@theman9048 Месяц назад

We eat snakes, dogs, cats, and all other kinds of animals

@VeganSemihCyprus33 21 день назад

We don't eat herbivores either 👉 Dominion (2018).

@bleesev2 Месяц назад

I think there's also an evolutionary reason, hunting a carnivore is much more difficult and dangerous then hunting a herbivore, so we probably adapted to prefer herbivore meat over carnivore meat. I assume that's why most carnivores mostly feast on herbivores.

@bleesev2 Месяц назад

Also fishing a carnivorous fish is as easy as fishing a herbivore fish so that can explain why we like carnivorous fish too.

@ShyGuySpirit 14 дней назад

Woah, I didn't know you have made another channel. Subscribing to it now.

@xanderbg1 25 дней назад

I think only inefficiency applies as a solid answer to this question.

@No__direction__ Месяц назад

The casual occasionally Pokémon in your animations always make my day :)

@akpsyche1299 Месяц назад

I noticed Deerling, Ursaring, Magikarp, and maybe Lycanroc.

@minaashido518 Месяц назад

1:03 here

@travisdykes252 Месяц назад

I like how alligators were shown several times as an example of a predator we don’t eat or farm. But throughout the south they are eaten and farmed. And hunted. It’s super tasty meat.

@AndrewManook Месяц назад

No thanks

@javieraguirre9135 Месяц назад

@@AndrewManooki would like to taste them

@cradleofrelaxation6473 16 дней назад

This video is unique and believe it or not this is the first time I came across such since I started using internet. Very thought provocative‼️

@brettsh.2545 Месяц назад

Such a cool video. Thanks!

@krum1703 Месяц назад

3:54 We basically just can't eat most things that cows, pigs, sheep, ect. can eat. We can't eat grass, we can't eat the stock of a bean, corn or tomato, we can't eat the leafs of carrots, turnips or potatoes. Instead of spending even more time and energy to make them edible as well, it's just easier to give them to the animals, who can also safely feed off of moldy bread.

@evilduck1000 Месяц назад

Making land to feed animals is one of the biggest causes of deforestation. A lot of that land is used to grow crops to feed to animals.

@krum1703 Месяц назад

@@evilduck1000 have you thought about the fact that some soils are just unfit to grow crops for us to eat, and that a pound of beef is much more nutritious than a pound of wheat or rice?

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

@@evilduck1000Most of that land is used for oil palm, Livestock agriculture is only about 20% of habitable land.

@EcceJack Месяц назад

That makes sense. In the modern world, it would actually be rather nice if farm animals were fed more or less only parts of edible plants that we don't eat (and/or other [for them] edible waste [edit:] or other things that can be grown in soils unsuitable for edible crops, like grass). It's just too bad this isn't really the case on the large scale

@carsonhunt4642 Месяц назад

I literally just saw my local Safeway grocery store selling literal yard grass to eat, by the lettuce lol. 😂

@gaaneshmujumdar Месяц назад

Its the most easy explanation that hunting a herbivore is easier than a carnivore for the risk of getting hunted down and the difference in numbers too. Thousands of herbivores vs few carnivores vs even lesser humans. Also Ockham's razor is a factor.

@RabbyArt Месяц назад

also when you pick an animal to keep against its will to breed and domesticate the choice is made for you by nature XD

@mochileirodasgalaxias3495 25 дней назад

As someone who lives in the shores of brazil, i can say that some types of crocodiles and sharks tastes delicious

@viceasimo3532 Месяц назад

Isnt it because they provide less energy the higher they are in the food chain?

@gorgenfol Месяц назад

By population size there's lots of plants, many plant-eaters, and few plant-eater-eaters. Hunting at the bigger buffet means you'll get more food

@CalonDosen25 Месяц назад

In Indonesia we eat snakes, crocodiles, monkeys, cats, dogs, bats, monitor lizards. You wouldn't even believe how much Jakarta people consume dog meat per year

@mr.q337 Месяц назад

There's a saying in Vietnam as a joke. If it move, it's edible =)))

@TheHeavieKiwie Месяц назад

Asians even eat cockroaches as well. Sometimes when I think about it, it's like eating whatever is caught.

@TheHeavieKiwie Месяц назад

These diets are mainly in China and South East Asia.

@simonpetrikov3992 Месяц назад

In the South we eat alligator and rattlesnakes on occasion

@dragonrykr Месяц назад

And that folks is how we got covid

@Raznak 17 дней назад

The second hypothesis also tells you that fish don’t contain the nasties from other creatures

@Protect_all_ljf3forms 22 дня назад

Could the answer possible be that hunting something mostly harmless to you is much easier than to do so to something that could eat you?

@lovelylavenderr Месяц назад

It's also usually a lot easier to hunt the herbivores. They're either fairly harmless like rabbits, or herd together making bigger targets for spears and bows, like bison, cows, or sheep. On the other hand, a lot harder to hunt something that's probably already hunting you. Something with dangerous claws and teeth as well as incredible speed and stealth.

@frostburn2982 Месяц назад

top-chain predators really do condense things like parasites, heavy metals, and other bad stuff, which you covered here. thats probably one of the reasons we avoid them.

@isaacbruner65 Месяц назад

We avoid mammalian predators but we don't seem to have the same concern for eating predatory fish, which have the exact same problem of bioaccumulation. I think the main reason we eat tuna but not tigers simply comes down to tuna being far more numerous and easier to catch.

@aereonexapprentice7205 Месяц назад

@@isaacbruner65Do those fish really have the same accumulation problem as carnivorous land animals? I assume not, since a quick look at your average consumable tuna and history of eating them just fine seems to indicate otherwise

@296radithyasatria5 Месяц назад

@aereonexapprentice7205 tuna has a relatively high mercury contents than fishes on the lower foodchain such as herrings

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person Месяц назад

@@aereonexapprentice7205 Also, even if they accumulated parasites( Let's ignore the heavy metals for now, as they are indeed an issue when fish and seafod is concerned), most of them might not be compatible with mammals because they evolved to infect fish. Meanwhile, tigers are a lot close to us genetically, so a tiger parasite of disease might infect us. I imagine that's why monkeys and rats are quite dangerous to eat, even if we created them in a lab.

@dracodracarys2339 18 дней назад

Meanwhile tuna are among the ocean's apex predators and yet they end up in tin cans. It's like making eagle nuggets, or tiger spam

@Marcos.Mereles 28 дней назад

Crocodile meat is very delicious and a common food in some places. But taste good just if it is well seasoned, if not, the taste is too strong, not easy to eat.

@TheSkytherMod Месяц назад

It's because it's easier for us to cultivate grains to feed them and graise animals than it is to feed meat eating animals to then eat.

@silkyz68 Месяц назад

And that's relatively new thing too. Chickens primarily only eat grain and so raising them was a bit more prestigious to have as a meal. Now you can get a box of chicken nuggets from McDonald's for like five bucks

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

@@silkyz68Yea but steak taste alot better chickens actually eat the majority of grains grown in us and its subsidized by big corn.

@duran9664 Месяц назад

❌ WRONG❌WRONG❌WRONG❌ People eat what easy to hunt & control🤷‍♀️ We would have eat each other if it easy to hunt humans, control them & eat them🤏

@zackatwood2867 Месяц назад

They are more docile

@BonQeeqeethe3rd320 Месяц назад

@@silkyz68chickens eat meat too, they eat insects and sometimes other chickens

@Delmworks Месяц назад

I feel that an additional detail is that for most of our history, carnivores weren't remotely practical to hunt. Putting aside the sheer danger, they produce far less meat than an equally-dangerous herbivore-ex. a mammoth. Furthermore, predators are much more likely to be able to sneak up on your compared to a herbivore, and conversely would find it easier to hide from us as well. It's not like dangerous creature weren't hunted, but they were not hunted FOR FOOD- for glory or profit usually. If you just need to eat and don't care about such things it's so much safer to jus stalk a gazelle, and even big prey would lack interest unless you have a tribe to feed.

@dragondude9637 15 дней назад

Main reason is a lot of carnivores have parasites that they are immune to but we aren't. One example is grizzly bears. Someone hunted a grizzly and ate it....and had to go to the emergency department to get parasites removed from their body despite cooking the meat properly. Other carnivores are too tough and gamey to eat and their meat is bland.

@lordgarion514 День назад

When our ancient early caveman ancestors started chasing down dinner with pointy sticks, non bitey animals would have been a lot easier to poke, without getting bit or clawed in return. It started for very practical reasons, and we continue for very practical reasons, even if they are mostly different reasons than in the past.

@sohkaswifteagle2604 Месяц назад

you forgot a few other reason: back when we were hunter gatherer, hunting a gazelle is less risky then hunting a tiger. If you fail the gazelle simply run away. The tiger might turn around and eat you instead. Once we started to raise our livestock, it's much easier and safer to control a herd of cow rather then a pack of wolf. Then similarly, the problem we have with spiders, most carnivores are solitary creatures or lives in small family structures and require a huge piece of land. So on your farm you could raise 1 tiger or a whole herd of cow (and less chance the herd of cow will attack the farmer then the tiger) Finally, numbers. most big predators are on the list of animals in danger of extinction. Because as mention earlier most of then live in small groups or solitary on huge vast of land, they often have a slow reproduction cycle making them way harder to farm.

@noonefromnowhere99 Месяц назад

We don't have a good explanation? You literally gave one really good reason, efficiency. Prey animals are easy to domesticate and they have infinite food souce. second, cows, rabbits, goats, etc. have multichambered stomachs for digesting it and some of them eat the same food after it goes out the back end. That's important because even animals that have evolved to eat it, don't get all the nutrients and cows have to eat a lot. Our stomachs don't work nearly as well and they can eat things that we can't. We're taking advantage of that trait, let them get their energy from stuff we can't really eat and we just harvest it from them. Which leaves me to the last point, they taste good, grass doesn't.

@valerieh325 Месяц назад

biomagnification

@vladimarmunchkin2780 Месяц назад

Plus all the excess estrogen in soy throws off your hormones. The evidence for the health of a plant based diet is inconclusive at BEST.

@natescorner 24 дня назад

I know someone who ate a rattlesnake. He offered me some but I turned it down. He said it tasted like chicken.

@lillithcollins5192 6 дней назад

I think domestication plays a big factor. Its easier to domesticate pigs, goats, horses, cows, chickens, and ducks: animals that live as a group then to domesticate something solo like a tiger. That said, it wouldn't explain canines. We've domesticated dogs but we don't eat them (baring starvation/desperation/survival) and some "carnivores" like coyotes eat more plants and fruits during different seasons, much like the bear example. So why don't we eat dogs in most cultures?

@Zack16611 Месяц назад

Loved the Pokémon and the Gravity Falls references! Subtle, but well done.

@alvinvaldes5034 Месяц назад

Something to note. Fish such as salmon are indeed carnivores. However, they are not at the top of the ocean food web. That title belongs to sharkes, dolphins, and whales, which we generally tend to avoid. I think this is important to know because the "nasty stuff" that they have are considerably higher levels of mercury.

@nordgeit Месяц назад

My 7+ kg of ground whale meat in the freezer:

@eljanrimsa5843 Месяц назад

Do you think we don't eat tuna and swordfish?

@alvinvaldes5034 Месяц назад

@eljanrimsa5843 Tuna and Swordfish are not on top of the food web.

@eljanrimsa5843 Месяц назад

@@alvinvaldes5034 Only orcas are on top of the food web in the ocean, but 15-foot tuna and swordfish are pretty high up there. And they have the mercury load to prove it. We eat them.

@alvinvaldes5034 Месяц назад

@eljanrimsa5843 With Swordfish, it is generally not recommended to eat them. Tuna, however, there are many safe species to consume. Sharkes are a level higher above them.

@shanewallace2564 23 дня назад

I've heard that bear is actually pretty good. Never tried it myself but I think I'll have to try it out in the spring if i do.

@crypticcorgi8280 22 дня назад

There is also something so human about predator. Herbivores seem more aloof, if not skittish at their most alert. But it feels like there is something more that goes on in a predator's and omnivores mind. Which we can relate to.

@BackYardScience2000 Месяц назад

You mean you've never eaten alligator meat? I highly recommend it. Almost just like chicken.

@kevink1575 Месяц назад

Frog legs too, but closer to the texture of fish.

@doggonemess1 Месяц назад

I've had alligator jerky. It was good!

@krum1703 Месяц назад

Just remember to be responsible while hunting!

@zirtd9256 Месяц назад

alligator or crocodile tastes like turkey but with the texture of beef. very strange, but tasty experience

@bennettfender9927 Месяц назад

Alligator is absolutely delicious one of my favorite foods especially that tail😋.

@magnuserror9305 16 дней назад

Its due to entropy, the system where we farm "carnivores" has a lot more entropy in it. Where as systems where we farm "herbivores" has much lower entropy. In order to farm "carnivores" we'd need to farm "herbivores". This also means we dont have the same thousands of years of farming tradition we had for "herbivores".

@lodielieb8482 26 дней назад

Interesting! I thought about this recently. My main guess was inefficiency of energy

@jasminerochas-oq8jw Месяц назад

It seems that most cultures have ancestral taboos against eating the animals sitting on top of the food chain.

@Spirelord Месяц назад

Alligators are delicious and there are even alligator farms, like fish farms, meant to supply meat to various places all along the Gulf Coast. We totally eat carnivores lol

@Stratelier Месяц назад

But it depends on the species.

@BossOfAllTrades Месяц назад

I assume those farms let the alligators hunt themselves as they be expensive to feed

@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 Месяц назад

What do they feed the alligators

@TheElusiveReality Месяц назад

theres a reason this is rare and essentially only occurs in one location

@dannym2359 Месяц назад

alligators and sharks come to mind first. both are pretty popular.

@dannym2359 Месяц назад

on another note, we didn't start out feeding our food animals anything that we would normally eat, so it was more like a way of turning an inedible food source like grasses and food that has possibly gone wrong into edible calories. today we feed many of our farmed animals lots of different foods that would easily be considered foodstuffs for ourselves, like oats and other grains for cows, sheep, and goats.

@GaylordBonnafous 9 дней назад

I have another hypothesis: we are meant to eat vegetal food (at least mostly), because we need these vitamins and minerals, so when we eat animals, we eat animals who eat vegetal food. They have pre-digested vegetal food for us.