Why do people across the world mostly only eat a few of the same types of meat (like chicken, beef, pork) when there are thousands of other animals to choose from?

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Why do people across the world mostly only eat a few of the same types of meat (like chicken, beef, pork) when there are thousands of other animals to choose from?

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Answer 1

Because:

1. Domesticating animals is hard. Ranching is hard too. You need ready access to meat to eat it.
2. Most animals taste bad. If you can find some horse or bear, try it. Not good. Also, the horse is more valuable alive than dead, and bears are, well, bears.
3. Disease. Parasites. Horrible painful deaths.