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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It’s about cost. In Japan beef is very expensive because we have very little land. So each cow is much more expensive to raise since they take up valuable space. But fish is abundant and so it’s cheap. Sure, we could try to get kangaroo or something but that isn’t native to here so it would be expensive too!