I understand that people also eat quail eggs, goat milk or etc etc due to geography (?) – but at what point and why did many settle on chicken eggs and cow milk?
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First of all, there are only 14 large domesticated animals, so it’s not like we had a ton of choices. For more info on why there are only 14, check out this CGP grey video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo)
Basically, we selected those animals because had the best GPA for the following curriculum
1. Not picky about food (will eat stuff we don’t want to)
2. Produces a lot of product on a regular basis (Daily, ideally)
3. Is safe to work with (given reasonable preparation)
4. Has bonuses (Cattle can work fields and provide leather and a TON of meat on harvest, chickens are a staple of permaculture and provide meat & feathers)
5. Was readily available when cultures first began to domesticate, giving those species an evolutionary head start on bein best designed for our needs
Reason 5 in particular is why you see different animals as a more popular food source in other countries. For those countries, chicken and cattle weren’t readily available when they first began to domesticate. 1000’s of years later and their culture is super tied into that animal, and change is slow
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