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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Cost, availability, habit.

I eat what I grew up eating because I have a taste for those things. Eating other things is strange, perhaps good, but strange.

What I grew up eating is based on what is available, both in terms of my families finances, and what is grown in my area.

All of those reinforce each other. What people eat more of drives the price, drives the availability, makes it more likely more people will also eat it.

Dingo may be delicious, but I will never know because it cost $80lb and requires I go to dirty areas of the internet to get. Where chicken is $1/lb and literally everywhere.