Why do many traditional cuisines rely so heavily on meat even though it has been scarce for most of history?

Question

Why do many traditional cuisines rely so heavily on meat even though it has been scarce for most of history?

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Answer 1

As it’s often not the everyday traditional cuisine, but a modern take on it. There’s often not a lot of meat in the older poorer kinds of food.

Meat was for the ones with money.