Talk:List of captive-bred meat animals

message: I'm a bit confused about this article.  Virtually every non-poisonous animal to which humans have access is consumed as food.  Is the plan to just everything here?  --Aranae 19:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This page would be useful if it listed what the meat forms of different animals are called (as it does with veal for calves, for example). As-is, it's useless, and was only moved here to help clean up the meat article. Only reason to keep it around at this point is the assumption that it'll be improved in the future, which seems fairly likely to me. -Silence 01:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Maybe we should nominate it for deletion.  Unless we can come up with some criteria for inclusion.  I think that it should be limited to livestock animals that are raised for meat, not game animals that are kept on game farms to be hunted, or who are hunted for meat in the wild. Chrisrus (talk) 03:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is better to segregate the common meat animals and the others - The animals which are raised for meat in one section and the animals hunted for meat in  another section. The names of the meat of each animal (if present) can also be given against their names. We can also specify the regional preferences - which part of the world a particluar animal is rraised or hunted predominantly (eg: Dog farms in Korea, certain antelopes raised in farms in South Africa, Kangaroos hunted in Australia etc.) Anish Viswa   08:42, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

text: You are right.  I don't like the title either.  It's not really a list of animals commonly eaten.  We tried that, but it ended up including just about any animal you could think of because people hunt and eat just about every animal.  So it became a lame list, not a cool, interesting list.  So that's the real reason we're not including any game animals.  So, back to the name, what about Meat Livestock or some such?  Chrisrus (talk) 05:06, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope 

message: Is shrimp really meat? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.10.217.81 (talk) 14:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point about the shrimp.  It is a bit wierd to call crustations and mullusca and such "meat".  I know it's technically true, so there's no real reason it has to be changed.  But if the pros and cons of the present title "List of Meat Animals" are ever weighed, this would be one reason to change it. Chrisrus (talk) 05:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrimp 

message: Mushrooms and truffles might also be considered meat since fungi seem to be closer to animals than to plants. :-) Steve Dufour 02:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fungi

message: The links go to the animal. Shouldn't the links go to, for example: Goat meat not Goat, etc? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Such a change would result in a list of meats, rather than a list of animals. That actually might be more useful in the end, but it would be a separate list. -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Black Falcon makes a very good point, but I've tried to do it as Anna suggests in terms of links anyway, even though it's not really a list of animals but rather of their use as meat livestock.  This way, a user clicks on each and finds out about how this animal is a meat animal; how they are farmed or "ranched" or "cultured" or whatever for meat, proving that the animal belongs on the list and also serving a user better by sending them to where they are probably want to go; sending them to the article cat meat than to domestic cat.  Chrisrus (talk) 06:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to animal or food? 

message: This suggests there are only three types of fish consumed by humans. Suggest a seperate sub-group.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.27.253 (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the only three we've found whose articles say they are "farmed" or "ranched" or whatever, cultured somehow, for meat.  If we included wild-caught, the list would be huge and lame.  Chrisrus (talk) 04:40, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fish 

message: Unlike the article Shrimp, the article lobster says they have never succeeded in ranching or farming them.  They don't talk alot about what the problem is, but they do say the lobsters tear each other apart without the rubber bands on their claws.  The rule here is that if it's not farmed or ranched, we weren't going to include it.  Chrisrus (talk) 20:43, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's an odd criterion, given the title of the page; but I'll revert myself.  However, we should discuss the misdescriptive title, because this is an example of a meat animal that is not ranched or farmed. TJRC (talk) 21:06, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lobster 

message: The title of this article is List of meat animals, but, as discussed above (#Lobster), the actual scope of the list is limited to meat animals that are ranched or farmed.  If this is the agreed-upon scope of the list, I propose that it be renamed; my initial suggestion is List of domesticated meat animals.  Thoughts?  TJRC (talk) 21:11, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea!  The reason the scope was limited was that it was becoming a list of just about all animals as someone somewhere eat/has eatern just about everything and so the list was becoming lame.  But moving to a new title should be done to reflect that fact.  Go for it, I say.  Chrisrus (talk) 21:14, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a week and no one has voiced an objection, so I've moved it. TJRC (talk) 19:04, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Chrisrus (talk) 04:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: ... But what about humans?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.5.220.18 (talk) 17:57, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not the morbiditiy that keeps them off.  They are not considered domesticated animals. Chrisrus (talk) 02:41, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I know this sounds morbid... 

message: Octopus and squid ? Jellyfish ? 170.52.112.145 (talk) 15:10, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Octopus and squid 

message: eesal insect is consumed in Tamil nadu state india 170.52.112.145 (talk) 15:14, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insects