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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Almost all matters of traditional cuisine originate from the same cause: trying not to starve. Every pre-industrial society got gud at figuring out how to make local flora and fauna edible, then palatable, then delicious, and occasionally amazing. While people all over the world generally (but by no means entirely) agree that Micky D’s hamburders are yum, thousands of years of “home cooking” are not erased by a couple generations of cheap “salt + umami” gunk.