Carnivore "meat" has a very distinctly metallic gamey taste, in a way that is different than the gamey taste of venison, for example. I have had bear and cougar, both were not something I would seek out to eat again. So, food preferances on the palate could be one explanation. Not a lot of demand for the taste.

Your premise is flawed. We eat many carnivorous fish.

Cod, for example, is a carnivore. Also, its liver is a prized food.

I honestly think it's an accessability thing. Why raise animals just to be eaten by other animals so you can eat that animal? Cut out the middle man. (Raise pigs to be eaten by wolves to be eaten by people or just raise pigs and feed them to people??) Just seems like you get a better bargan by cutting out the middle step.

There is some validity to eating things that don't pose a threat. However, humans eat a lot of food sources that are carnivores. Heck, the biggest source of protein in the human diet, around the world, is likely chicken and fish. Carnivores.

I find them to be to gamey as well as elitist and grass fed or not...a terrible sense of humor...but then, I've never wrapped one in bacon, so I could be converted. Truth.

I think aside from, say a bear or mountain lion potentially killing you during the hunt, it's not deleterious to eat them. It's cheaper and easier to, say, grow grass for ruminants than to feed meat to meat eaters then eat them. As to eating dogs, I see nothing wrong with it. For cultures other than some Asian ones, dogs have become more of a working or companion animal so we tend not to eat them. And, again, I think for what you would feed them vs the amount of meat you would get, you'd be better off eating lamb or fish.

Squid, fish (tuna, swordfish, shark), crocodiles, alligators, snakes, frogs are a few. Maybe the main reason we don't eat this stuff in America is because it is uncommon to hunt for it in the local supermarket :D

Also, regular predators who eat meat are likely solitary individuals or in small packs, as noted above. Things like cattle, sheep, and bison are easier to raise in a domestic setting because they can graze on grass. And as I've seen on other websites now while researching this, yes it can lead to a problem with "hypervitaminosis A" if you eat carnivore livers long term.

This is an informative read for those curious.

Wikipedia - taboo food and drink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink

While poultry may be omnivorous, birds of prey (entirely carnivorous) like hawks, eagles, vultures, owls are forbidden food for Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Hindus (about 3 billion people - or around half the world population), and other cultures. Notice birds of prey are often attributed in sacred contexts - the hawk as the symbol of Zeus, or in shamanic contexts (tribal and traditional religions), Horus - falcon-headed god in ancient Egypt, owl associated with Hindu goddess Laksmi, etc. Since many spiritual beliefs systems share this idea of a human soul taking flight like a bird - particularly a bird of prey this taboo might make sense.

If you're not interested in a spiritual explanation -from a practical point of view - hunting birds of prey is much more difficult then other birds.

we don't eat carnivore mammals. i limit my intake of mammals in general because of the ease with which viruses and bacteria can pass directly or mutate to survive in a similar mammalian host.

i would bet that we haven't hunted them in most cultures because we have admired and even deified many aggressive and predatory animals.

I have eaten most things that run, fly, swim or crawl - everything from crickets & caterpillars to giraffe, alligator, lion, dog, snakes, shark, bears. Carnivore meat tends to have a unique flavor overall and I just prefer cow, bison, pork, etc.

I think in the wild, chickens are to the carnivorous end of the omnivore spectrum. They eat mostly insects and small animals.

Personally, it may be more of a food chain/sustainability/availability thing. As far as fish goes, it's more sustainable to eat the smaller fish lower on the food chain. Making predatory fish like salmon, shark, a tuna a big part of all humankind's diet would be unsustainable and irresponsible. It makes more sense to go after the herbivores and omnivores. There's a lot more of them to go around.

This is not only about humans. Other animals don't eat meat-eaters either. Lions never eat dogs and dogs never eat cats. I'm not sure for fishes, reptiles and insects, but in general, at least mammals don't. The only exceptions are domesticated animals ... fed by ... humans; and as stated above; that's probably why most religions forbid pork meat. Some years ago, in the UK, they were so stupid to feed cows and sheep with molded bones. After only one or two "cycles", terrible diseases as Creutzfeldt–Jakob were the result. They had to eliminate many thousands of "mad cows".

Also, it is not about carnivores » it is about animals eating meat. That's why Chinese and Korean people do eat dogs. Those dogs are fed with rice, not with meat. And that's why cats were eaten at the end of the war. Those cats didn't at any meat at all for over a year.

I imagine Grop didn't care whether or not he ate carnivores or herbivores, but herbivores are easier to tame and domestocate, and very often carnivores are scavengers that eat carrion or other rotting things that may cause disease, and duringt the Neolithic period, avoiding carnivore meat became a stay-well measure. If you think about it, there are no exclusively carnivorous land animals that are kosher.

Predators are fast. We are slow. If the predator decides to turn us into game we don't stand a chance. Bear vs Hiker With Rock never ends well in Alaska.

Alligator is delicious! Seriously. Also, expensive. Snake is just ok.

I knew a fish monger that would sell alligator meat, raw. Otherwise I order from here: http://www.cajungrocer.com/fresh-foods-alligator-c-1_15_16.html?limit=all

And not very paleo but alligator boudin is the bomb.

In America we don't eat anything we consider a pet, cute, or gross. So dogs, cats, snakes, insects and many birds are out. In many cultures carnivorous creatures are more common than in America and Europe, though some are scavengers, like dogs. A friend of mine was stationed in Korea. He said snake, rat, cat and dog were common. Most of the fish we eat are carnivorous, salmon, tuna, cod. In Louisiana gator is becoming more common. In many countries you can get scorpions and other carnivorous insects.