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 the cheapest meat comes from domesticated animals and only a handful of species have been domesticated.

These animals had the right mix of characteristics to be suitable for humans to capture, raise them, feed them things we don’t eat, and genetically alter them over the generations. It’s a short list that fits all the criteria.