If you could eat any animal.....

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  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)

    Piratus Furrus Hippotatus.
  • emergencytennis
    emergencytennis Posts: 864 Member
    I'd be really interested to find out what woolly mammoth and woolly rhino taste like, but they're extinct.

    the mammoth could be coming back, they found a new carcass of one that had blood frozen in it so its possible they might be able to clone them.

    it will be on shelves quicksmart.

    If they did, there'd be only one of whatever gender this frozen one is, and no-one would be allowed to eat it.

    If you can clone it, you can clone it again. And again. The only limits are the market, demand and supply.

    I reckon mammoth and rhino would just taste like horse. Grazers, all.

    cloning it involves it growing in the womb of a female, they're quite a bit bigger than modern elephants, so not sure if an elephant would be able to give birth to a viable newborn mammoth. And where are you going to get all the milk to feed it with? An elephant can probably feed it, but it'll take a long time to grow to maturity. If it's female it can give birth to more clones, if it's male then you'll have to rely on elephants to make more clones. It's not at all cost effective, and would never work economically as a source of food. They take too long to grow.

    For conservation purposes, you'd need to clone an entire herd or maybe several herds, to get enough diversity for a viable population that will thrive. And for conservation purposes they'd be classified as an endangered species and would be illegal to eat.

    Elephant is more closely related to pig, so it would probably taste more like bacon. They have a high fat content, unlike zebra meat which is very lean. Not sure how closely rhinos are related to elephants but probably it would taste more like an elephant than a zebra, due to the high fat content. Some early humans ate hippos too, also very fatty, also probably tasted rather like bacon. *awaits MFP bacon gifs*

    Elephants can't gestate mammoths = experiment fail duh
    Milk to feed baby mammoths unavailable = experiment fail duh

    We assume the experiments are successful. The limiting factor is the available cells for cloning. Your "it is not cost effective" argument relies on predicted supply and demand, which I would submit as undeterminable.

    Cloning mammoths for human consumption does not require a breeding population. It just needs money.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I'd be really interested to find out what woolly mammoth and woolly rhino taste like, but they're extinct.

    the mammoth could be coming back, they found a new carcass of one that had blood frozen in it so its possible they might be able to clone them.

    it will be on shelves quicksmart.

    If they did, there'd be only one of whatever gender this frozen one is, and no-one would be allowed to eat it.

    If you can clone it, you can clone it again. And again. The only limits are the market, demand and supply.

    I reckon mammoth and rhino would just taste like horse. Grazers, all.

    cloning it involves it growing in the womb of a female, they're quite a bit bigger than modern elephants, so not sure if an elephant would be able to give birth to a viable newborn mammoth. And where are you going to get all the milk to feed it with? An elephant can probably feed it, but it'll take a long time to grow to maturity. If it's female it can give birth to more clones, if it's male then you'll have to rely on elephants to make more clones. It's not at all cost effective, and would never work economically as a source of food. They take too long to grow.

    For conservation purposes, you'd need to clone an entire herd or maybe several herds, to get enough diversity for a viable population that will thrive. And for conservation purposes they'd be classified as an endangered species and would be illegal to eat.

    Elephant is more closely related to pig, so it would probably taste more like bacon. They have a high fat content, unlike zebra meat which is very lean. Not sure how closely rhinos are related to elephants but probably it would taste more like an elephant than a zebra, due to the high fat content. Some early humans ate hippos too, also very fatty, also probably tasted rather like bacon. *awaits MFP bacon gifs*

    Elephants can't gestate mammoths = experiment fail duh
    Milk to feed baby mammoths unavailable = experiment fail duh

    We assume the experiments are successful. The limiting factor is the available cells for cloning. Your "it is not cost effective" argument relies on predicted supply and demand, which I would submit as undeterminable.

    Cloning mammoths for human consumption does not require a breeding population. It just needs money.

    How do you clone the mammoth in the first place without growing them in the uterus of a closely related animal? Clones don't start off life as adults, they grow the same way as non-cloned animals do, i.e. from an embryo, in the case of mammals, in the uterus of a female. For the purpose of cloning extinct mammals, you have to grow them in the uterus of a closely related female. In the case of mammoths, that would be a female elephant. And it's not likely to be very successful either, i.e. most embryos may not grow, due to subtle differences in gestation and the uterine environment between the two species.

    As for cost effective, clones grow at the same rate as non-clones grow when breeding them the normal way. The cells don't magically grow into adult animals in a petri dish. They have to grow to maturity the normal way animals grow to maturity, i.e. implanted in the uterus of a female, preferably of the same species, if not then of a female of a closely related species. You therefore cannot mass produce clones of mammoths without having lots of female elephants, and time is a limiting factor as it takes a long time for them to grow to maturity.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)

    Piratus Furrus Hippotatus.

    Homo sapiens ancestors ate piratus furrus Hoppotatus ancestors. :drinker:
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)

    Piratus Furrus Hippotatus.

    Homo sapiens ancestors ate piratus furrus Hoppotatus ancestors. :drinker:

    All lies. Your ancestors drowned because we stole your ships. :drinker:

    I refuse to let you out-idiot me.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Moose. It's even better than bison or thevery best beef. Haven't had moose in thirty years...(sigh).
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)

    Piratus Furrus Hippotatus.

    Homo sapiens ancestors ate piratus furrus Hoppotatus ancestors. :drinker:

    All lies. Your ancestors drowned because we stole your ships. :drinker:

    Ships are irrelevant to the point as they weren't used until the mesolithic era. (although some people think that some Homo erectuses built ships but I call BS on that until someone can demonstrate how you can build a ship with the level of technology Homo erectus had, because if even a Homo sapiens can't build a ship with that level of technology Homo erectus certainly couldn't)

    Humans ate hippos. Hippos did not eat humans. Quad erat demonstrandum and all that. :drinker:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member

    I refuse to let you out-idiot me.

    I'm really rather good at being an idiot, I mean I'm on this thread on a health and fitness forum arguing about the economic viability of cloned mammoth as a source of food for humans.

    Personally I wouldn't trust mammoth as a source of food. The neanderthals did and they went extinct shortly after the mammoth went extinct. Tricky *kitten* those mammoths are....
  • goodtimezzzz
    goodtimezzzz Posts: 640 Member
    Beyonce
  • lilmissymoo90
    lilmissymoo90 Posts: 324 Member
    ive tried crocodile and zebra lol but im vegan now lol=P
  • kfleming322
    kfleming322 Posts: 5
    kamen, crocodile or aligator. its white meat. looks amazing.

    Alligator is pretty good. A little rubbery if it isn't cooked correctly, but it's really tasty.
  • kfleming322
    kfleming322 Posts: 5
    ive tried crocodile and zebra lol but im vegan now lol=P

    My husband is on a vegan diet/fast right now. He's considering making it permanent.
  • kfleming322
    kfleming322 Posts: 5
    Beyonce

    Ew. Just saying.

    She isn't an animal, she's the devil. Her and her husband.
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    honey badger!
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    honey badger!

    they are immortal and have been known to kill lions and just have a little sleep when bitten by a cobra.

    they just wont die!
  • GeorgeMT1
    GeorgeMT1 Posts: 2 Member
    Considering I've been Vegetarian for the past 5 years this is a hard decision but if anything It'd be an extinct animal, maybe that of a saber tooth tiger, although I'd rather be it's friend of course.
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    honey badger!

    they are immortal and have been known to kill lions and just have a little sleep when bitten by a cobra.

    they just wont die!

    Who says that they gutta die to eat um?:indifferent: Maybe they are the panacea!

    Edit to add- could just eat an arm or something, honey badger don't care.
  • tuckerrj
    tuckerrj Posts: 1,453 Member
    honey badger!

    ^^ This ^^

    I've eaten alligator & black bear, along with deer, rabbit, squirrel, etc.. But there has GOT to be some badazz genetics in the honey badger...
  • astrylian
    astrylian Posts: 194 Member
    Ostrich and buffalo taste pretty good and are easily accessible in stores across the heartland.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Unicorn. It's hard to find in these parts though. Horse, marinated under a rainbow, and dusted with candy sprinkles, is a pretty close facsimile.

    unicorn_meat_dribbble.jpeg
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    Unicorn. It's hard to find in these parts though. Horse, marinated under a rainbow, and dusted with candy sprinkles, is a pretty close facsimile.

    unicorn_meat_dribbble.jpeg

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    :( I had a feeling that someone would say it eventually. :sad:
  • RobynLB83
    RobynLB83 Posts: 626 Member
    Cougar. Because one was eyeballin my kid the other day. I wanted to eat that mo'fo, show him who's top of the food chain!
  • walterP33
    walterP33 Posts: 13 Member
    I would want to eat a couple of pounds of humming bird tongues! So delicious. I also want to try some dog! I'd like to start on my neighbor's Pitbull! hehheehehheh!
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    Personally, I'm satisfied with eating cow. I have yet to find a more delicious animal.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    I hear hippo tastes like a combination of vomit and piss. Just thought you should know. :ohwell:

    your ancestors ate hippo: http://cavepeopleandstuff.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/the-reality-of-palaeolithic-diets/

    No. My ancestors ate your ancestors.

    is your avatar a bear? cause neanderthals ate bears (although sometimes bears ate neanderthals, there was a power struggle going on there)

    Piratus Furrus Hippotatus.

    Homo sapiens ancestors ate piratus furrus Hoppotatus ancestors. :drinker:

    All lies. Your ancestors drowned because we stole your ships. :drinker:

    Ships are irrelevant to the point as they weren't used until the mesolithic era. (although some people think that some Homo erectuses built ships but I call BS on that until someone can demonstrate how you can build a ship with the level of technology Homo erectus had, because if even a Homo sapiens can't build a ship with that level of technology Homo erectus certainly couldn't)

    Humans ate hippos. Hippos did not eat humans. Quad erat demonstrandum and all that. :drinker:

    Exactly. Us hippo pirates were sailing the seven seas before you'd even worked out that wood floats. So you couldn't even catch us let alone eat us.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    I'd eat a Dodo bird!!!! :devil:
  • Morninglory81
    Morninglory81 Posts: 1,190 Member
    Unicorn. Imagine the magical powers imbued in ingestion. :tongue:
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
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  • aquinoz
    aquinoz Posts: 182 Member
    Steroid cow.
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