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 2 ай бұрын

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@GamerDuDimanche1456 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

Watch ordinary sausage too if you wanna see more

@bbgun061 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@imveryangryitsnotbutter 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Might as well eat dirt 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🥶🥶🤢🤢

@NickWrightDataYT 2 ай бұрын

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

@martinketchum 2 ай бұрын

@@NickWrightDataYT good thing we are now cows

@matthewboyd8689 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@lonelyPorterCH 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

❌ 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@harthroth 2 ай бұрын

@@AiNaKait's a bot dawg

@jackychen7769 2 ай бұрын

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

@simonPARK-lv8fi 2 ай бұрын

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

@pocopoco3468 20 күн бұрын

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

@that_betrayalmanguy 6 күн бұрын

Some countries and "most" asian countries eat almost every animal in their country except those that are too small for example in the Philippines in other places we eat crocodiles like in Palawan I think 🤔.

@f1kRii 6 күн бұрын

⁠⁠@@that_betrayalmanguyBro, what do you mean by “some muslim countries”? Eating carnivorous animals in Islam is haram. Stop sending misinformation on the internet

@that_betrayalmanguy 6 күн бұрын

@@f1kRii sorry bro it's actually Asian sorry 😔

@wodddj 5 күн бұрын

Next time visiting China, try deep fried scorpions, very tasty!

@eastern2western 5 күн бұрын

Not always true because chinese protein tend to surround pigs, chickens and smaller animals because bigger animals such as water buffalos and horses were used for heavier farm labors.

@ArshAmit-hd2le Ай бұрын

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

@AM-uk7jv 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Oceanic food webs just operate on another level

@Merennulli 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

What about sardines and shrimp.

@Merennulli 2 ай бұрын

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

@RustedCrown11 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

thats mostly for their skin right?

@klungar 2 ай бұрын

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

@xToddmcx 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@RustedCrown11 2 ай бұрын

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

@huntjl88 6 күн бұрын

I'm sorry but I've eaten a few carnivores. Gator shark, Tuna, mackerel, and other carnivorous fish. Snake is also eaten. So the correct wording is humans usually avoid eating carnivores.

@RedFail1-1 Күн бұрын

It's like you didn't even watch the video

@gizmo835 7 күн бұрын

"Why Don't We Eat Carnivores?" There's alligator meat, shark fin soup, and i think snakes are sometimes eaten as well...

@cisium1184 5 күн бұрын

Also birds, many of which eat bugs.

@ciruelo5921 15 сағат бұрын

The truth is the only carnivores we avoid are mammals. Even pig is avoided in some cultures.

@ommin202 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 Ай бұрын

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

@katokianimation Ай бұрын

Most bears are omnivores but the point is still valid.

@runronnierun7213 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

isotope analysis suggests that we ate other carnivores too

2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@akbarkhan-nq3xl Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

This was my idea

@Golldie565 12 күн бұрын

3:27 the cow pattern is 2 faces looking at each other😂

@ReimeiNoRaimei 5 күн бұрын

Ohh gosh I can’t unsee it now 😂

@lukesalazar9283 4 күн бұрын

Fr!

@gabegamez1018 2 күн бұрын

How did I not see that

@brianedwards7142 12 күн бұрын

I read this morning of a croc that was shot because it was stalking people and eating dogs. The body was donated to the local aboriginal community who held a feast.

@RafaelSilva-ew2gt 2 ай бұрын

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

@avu2888 2 ай бұрын

idk man, there's like 4 in my dms promising a weekly allowance of $1000, as long as I send my bank details first

@foxx1275 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@AymenDZA 2 ай бұрын

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

@nuklearboysymbiote 2 ай бұрын

@@avu2888 LMAO😭😭😭😭

@Krypto137 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

@@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

@CopperScott 10 күн бұрын

I enjoy how some of the animals were drawn to look like Pokémon

@0vercrafted Ай бұрын

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.

@danielsolano330 10 күн бұрын

Who's the shiny? The wolf? I don't even recognise which Pokemon it's supposed to look like

@fabiobeka Ай бұрын

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

@slizzardshroomer9666 8 күн бұрын

Herding rabbits? Good luck with that.

@teckzilla108 8 күн бұрын

@@slizzardshroomer9666 Breeding rabbits is a lot easier lol

@FalconWindblader 6 күн бұрын

@@slizzardshroomer9666Look it up. It's actually a thing & VERY EASILY done when compared to other bigger herbivores

@pra8k Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Javier64691 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@lillithcollins5192 21 күн бұрын

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?

@jackanderson719 2 күн бұрын

Dog is man's best friend so its off the menu.

@PossumReviews 6 күн бұрын

Once humans started domesticating animals, they probably realized predators like cats and dogs were much more valuable for hunting, protection, and keeping pests out of food stores than they were as a food source. From there, we came to see them as companion animals instead of food.

@JanSenCheng 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

This comment wins the question.

@leightongardner7822 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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!

@maheshwarannarayanan Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@hansvonmannschaft9062 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@MintsClassic 18 күн бұрын

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 18 күн бұрын

@@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.

@rockoyhead Ай бұрын

chickens do be eating eachother out there in them wilds tho

@chvhndrtntlr3482 3 күн бұрын

Non western countries: "huh you don't eat carnivores?"

@skylergarza8371 Ай бұрын

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

@DeadjokeIknow Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

We are not in China

@yektaagra741 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@Labyrinth6000 Ай бұрын

Fried gator = Mmm

@robertmcauslan6191 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Very good

@tinachristine4573 Ай бұрын

True. We eat crocodile meat.

@elijahknox4421 Ай бұрын

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

@murraykelm5691 Ай бұрын

They are farmed ,but for their fur not their meat

@Wolfntee Ай бұрын

Tuna too! @tinachristine4573

@allwrightadventures6675 Ай бұрын

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

@carlramirez6339 Ай бұрын

Thank you for convincing me to not take up cannibalism.

@ZeGamerZ- Ай бұрын

@aimliard2276 Ай бұрын

😂 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 Ай бұрын

@@aimliard2276speak for yourself. I hate pork

@spaceman081447 Ай бұрын

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

@amuk4229 Ай бұрын

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

@RFakonWolf_Art Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@orangejacket4551 Ай бұрын

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

@RFakonWolf_Art Ай бұрын

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

@fraizie6815 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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?

@OmegaZ21 16 күн бұрын

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.

@AfaqueAhmed_ Күн бұрын

People do eat carnivores , its just not that widespread and still considered somewhat of a taboo .

@demolisherman1763 2 ай бұрын

As CGPGray once said, “Thermodynamics”

@U.K.N 2 ай бұрын

Soooo long ago

@tasrickhasan6899 2 ай бұрын

"We are the top Chicken" -CGP

@hdrodic 2 ай бұрын

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

@David280GG 2 ай бұрын

Gd reference

@bbgun061 2 ай бұрын

@@hdrodic And we can't eat grass.

@incineroar9933 2 ай бұрын

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

@roseyuen6916 2 ай бұрын

Also cephalopods, and dogs and cats in some places

@BossOfAllTrades 2 ай бұрын

@@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. 2 ай бұрын

Fish

@duran9664 2 ай бұрын

❌ 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 2 ай бұрын

@@duran9664 No we wouldnt do that Its psychopathic

@ShyGuySpirit 29 күн бұрын

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

@nikicfb 21 күн бұрын

I always wondered that!! thx

@Jordan-vl8wm Ай бұрын

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

@RabbyArt Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@randallbutler6795 Ай бұрын

Your reason explains more than the other proposed reasons.

@Fledhyris Ай бұрын

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

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@OddRagnarDengLerstl Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@v44n7 Ай бұрын

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

@warthoggoulags1679 Ай бұрын

like thuna

@Sonofdio2019 Ай бұрын

@@fraizie6815frr, capacitors are just so 🤤

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@zirby5100 7 күн бұрын

Technically most people do eat carnivores depending on the place where they live while others eat omnivores like a bear

@TheFinalChapters Күн бұрын

It's not surprising that a species that wasn't at the top of the food chain when it evolved didn't evolve to eat things at the top of the food chain.

@thefourleafclover5316 Ай бұрын

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

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@PKmuffdiver Ай бұрын

Indeed

@nemesis8131 Ай бұрын

@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ok, I do.

@fretzT_T Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

I liked it

@jhonbus 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@phartferd5738 3 күн бұрын

I like how it’s called “minute earth” but they spend an obnoxious amount of time to explain a straight forward concept of why we farm what we farm.

@JadedDragon662 23 күн бұрын

The sheer amount of parasites collected by predators would also be prohibitive.

@jacobgittens8189 8 күн бұрын

Wolves don't cook their food. Humans on the other hand have been aware of that problem for centuries and that's one of the reasons we started cooking

@moo422 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@M33f3r Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@bigmoe9856 Ай бұрын

@@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

@bigmoe9856 Ай бұрын

@@MarianLuca-rz5kk luckily that has easy solutions. Rodents for the snake and pigs for the suchos. Both eat basically anything and are so good at breeding they're practically a pest-not to mention they grow fast. Freeze them when you don't need them and then thaw them when you do.

@Mia_Waiting 2 ай бұрын

South East Asians: what are you talking about?

@VergiliarEcaros 2 ай бұрын

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

@oh_k8 2 ай бұрын

They're not afraid of danger

@GhostRiley-zs8zb 2 ай бұрын

you mean chinese

@northernsnow6982 2 ай бұрын

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

@tehkaihong5328 2 ай бұрын

@@GhostRiley-zs8zb they be snacking too

@lordgarion514 16 күн бұрын

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.

@AlexS-oj8qf 9 күн бұрын

Southerner who eat Crocodile: 👀

@crayonzii 2 ай бұрын

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

@dryzalizer 2 ай бұрын

side*

@Cheskoslavia 2 ай бұрын

@@dryzalizer No, it's a chalice!

@DefnitelyNotFred 2 ай бұрын

Well spotted!

@deleted-something 2 ай бұрын

What

@max_me_is 2 ай бұрын

They painted a cow with a Rorschach painting, very cool

@d3vi0uz1 Ай бұрын

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

@mr.rocheteau Ай бұрын

she mentions them in the vid

@mr.rocheteau Ай бұрын

2:43

@S1rRandom Ай бұрын

she mentions that in the vid broski

@GabrielMoura-qe3il Ай бұрын

I want eat a white shark!

@mr.rocheteau Ай бұрын

@@GabrielMoura-qe3il all the power to you

@RetroGameSpacko 14 күн бұрын

I like the meme about a Peta billboard that asks "where do you draw the line" and the added lines are "Normal, Economic crisis, apocalyptic crisis"

@user-se2he7lv4t 3 күн бұрын

Fish are always eating fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as heck.

@jgr7487 2 ай бұрын

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

@westonding8953 2 ай бұрын

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

@alexgrissom3513 2 ай бұрын

Just as immoral as eating cows and pigs

@hawoaliahmed6996 2 ай бұрын

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

@alexgrissom3513 2 ай бұрын

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

@thefrenchselkie1401 2 ай бұрын

@@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

@InternLivesMatter 9 күн бұрын

You forgot one thing - POPULATION EXPLOSION is different for herbivores (prey) & carnivores (predators). Having more offspring and forming herds is a survival strategy for prey animals which impacts availability of certain types of meat. Also, seeing herds would have given early humans the idea of farming animals.

@nicogallardo97 5 күн бұрын

I add one very good reason. Ecosystems needs carnivores to keep other species from growing to much in numbers. There arent that much carnivores, and they are in danger. If we run out of carnivores, the natural balance will go bananas.

@Alpha1200 6 сағат бұрын

I'm surprised the first theory I thought of isn't in here, which is: 1. They try to eat us back and so since humans didn't evolve as apex predators, we evolutionary learned to fear and run from them rather than view them as a tasty snack. 2. Carnivores tend to be fewer in number in any given area than herbivores due to the mentioned inefficiencies, having large territories. Since they still only have the same number of calories (broadly) it makes sense to not eat them but rather eat the herbivores.

@FreshSmog 2 ай бұрын

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

@119beaker Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@theMifyoo 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@xdevantx5870 Ай бұрын

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

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@oneshothunter9877 9 күн бұрын

Here in northern most parts of Europe we still eat bear. Seal and walrus, too. Some even still eat dog.

@krashanb5767 7 күн бұрын

And cats in Switzerland. Besides Chinese restaurants 😊

@guitarcomet5 6 күн бұрын

Yes…it’s a dog eat dog world out there! Except in Korea…where it’s, Korean eat dog world.😊

@DavidJakobVoss 6 күн бұрын

A lot of carnivores are endangered that could be put into perspective

@jacobringenwald 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@PeterSedesse Huh! Well, TIL… thanks!

@MartinX192 Ай бұрын

Dogs are omnivores, only cats are carnivores

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@anthonyanth8368 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Louisiana,Texas, and Florida does this

@rystafford5781 Ай бұрын

@@jalenwatson4261 more so alligator not croc

@rystafford5781 Ай бұрын

You can get it anywhere in the US.

@marcusmoonstein242 Ай бұрын

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

@anthonyanth8368 Ай бұрын

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

@aadithyavarmakudos 8 күн бұрын

Minuteearth: Cows,pigs, chickens,deer, rabbits. Me: Where is the goat? 🐐

@NotABean_ 14 күн бұрын

im so addicted to coffee that when you mentioned bitter plants it activated some neuron in my brain

@bleesev2 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@M7Teen7 Ай бұрын

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

@dracodracarys2339 Ай бұрын

knew there was gonna be a jojo reference here somewhere

@fin5887 21 күн бұрын

Was looking for this comment

@josethethinket9819 10 күн бұрын

When does this happen?

@usuhbi Ай бұрын

Gators, crocodiles, and catfish taste good. And they will eat anything.

@ksp6091 Ай бұрын

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

@Azulakayes 9 күн бұрын

Exactly

@AaronALAI 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-nu8vw1ow4n 2 ай бұрын

Some Japan eat bear meat

@rickwilliams967 2 ай бұрын

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

@theman9048 2 ай бұрын

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

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ай бұрын

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

@No__direction__ Ай бұрын

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

@akpsyche1299 Ай бұрын

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

@minaashido518 Ай бұрын

1:03 here

@generalalduin9548 3 күн бұрын

there's also the fact that there's less carnivores out there than herbivores and that herbivores tend to breed faster and have more babies

@iDxnii. Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@krum1703 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

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

@EcceJack 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@iftekhar77 Ай бұрын

The word nasty has a good connotation to my adult brain 😂😂

@elbarto8282 10 күн бұрын

This only applies to land animals. We mostly eat carnivore fish.

@Badpoison1 Ай бұрын

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

@paloma_oni Ай бұрын

Well.....how they taste?

@billmccullough777 Ай бұрын

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

@Badpoison1 Ай бұрын

@@paloma_oni unremarkable surprisingly enough

@randomperson4198 Ай бұрын

@@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 29 күн бұрын

Also Gator dogs

@gaaneshmujumdar Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@chinnpatel 4 күн бұрын

Food for thought: humans pick on the 'little guy' instead of the tougher guy in order to get their own selfish fix.

@mccubbinash 14 күн бұрын

Good informative video. Also I like the subtle Pokemon nod in your art, it’s great.

@BackYardScience2000 2 ай бұрын

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

@kevink1575 2 ай бұрын

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

@doggonemess1 2 ай бұрын

I've had alligator jerky. It was good!

@krum1703 2 ай бұрын

Just remember to be responsible while hunting!

@zirtd9256 2 ай бұрын

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

@bennettfender9927 2 ай бұрын

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

@BrianWanke 8 күн бұрын

I already knew this question becuase I’ve been an animal lover my entire life and have always loved learning about them, but it’s still good to clarify 🤷‍♂️

@Raznak Ай бұрын

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

@gorgenfol 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@TheHeavieKiwie Ай бұрын

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

@TheHeavieKiwie Ай бұрын

These diets are mainly in China and South East Asia.

@simonpetrikov3992 Ай бұрын

In the South we eat alligator and rattlesnakes on occasion

@dragonrykr Ай бұрын

And that folks is how we got covid

@hybridizedhere 3 күн бұрын

I grew up in a hunting family and my dad and his buddies would always scare us with stories of people getting essentially turned into swiss cheese from eating undercooked mountian lion and bear meat that contained some parasite Also with eating carnivorous fish you actually wanna avoid fish eating fish due to toxins they accumulate from the meat, which cant actually be detected or cooked out. Most of food poisoning incidents at seafood restaurants are either because they get carnivorous fish that have these toxins or they get shellfish with these toxins. You forgot the most important part though, its just easier to hunt a rabbit than it is a tiger or a beat

@PapaBlueHandsome 10 күн бұрын

I mean... There's a point everyone missed. Like, before they become our food, I think we're the one becoming the food

@ZVEKOfficial 2 ай бұрын

4:29 That's the wackiest pronunciation of Quran I've ever heard

@travisdykes252 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

No thanks

@javieraguirre9135 Ай бұрын

@@AndrewManooki would like to taste them

@famouscryp4130 11 күн бұрын

Chinese people: allow us to introduce ourselves

@cradleofrelaxation6473 Ай бұрын

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‼️

@TheSkytherMod 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@duran9664 2 ай бұрын

❌ 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 2 ай бұрын

They are more docile

@BonQeeqeethe3rd320 2 ай бұрын

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

@alvinvaldes5034 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@eljanrimsa5843 2 ай бұрын

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

@alvinvaldes5034 2 ай бұрын

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

@eljanrimsa5843 2 ай бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

@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.

@infospace2841 6 күн бұрын

One more theory. No one wants food that fights back😂😂

@Wolfgam 13 күн бұрын

3:54 oh yeah I'll have a cow's stomach to digest grass.

@noonefromnowhere99 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

biomagnification

@vladimarmunchkin2780 Ай бұрын

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.

@Zack16611 2 ай бұрын

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

@antibolsevism9814 2 күн бұрын

Who lied to you ? we eat carnivores , what do meat eater fish are ?

@joejohnson4613 6 күн бұрын

I would have thought that the danger of obtaining the carnivore would have been one of the top reasons

@Delmworks 2 ай бұрын

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.

@lovelylavenderr 2 ай бұрын

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.