List of meat animals

List of meat animals

The following is a list of animals and their culinary names that humans eat. It includes animals which some cultures never eat or do not consider meat, as well as endangered species.

Taxonomy and cuisine

Note that some classifications of meat are taxonomically paraphyletic, and hence are not listed above, such as seafood (which includes only "some" mammals) and shellfish (which is a collective term for mollusks and crustaceans, two very distantly related groups; within the mollusks, it also excludes land snails and cephalopods (octopus, squid, etc.)).


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