User blog comment:FrenchTouch/Ask Me Stuff, Again, The Reckoning II: Electric Boogaloo/@comment-26285531-20160102233125/@comment-26402117-20160103142043

Well done on beating @FartherAway to it, Mistream. -_-

That said, I believe FrenchTouch is onto something there. The reason why we humans do not eat creatures we believe to be inedible is because they're "intelligent" - they are actually still physically edible.

 Things we humans like to eat:  Things we humans don't like to eat: As you can see, we clearly discriminate when it comes to what's food.
 * cows
 * poultry
 * fish
 * ostriches
 * gorrilas
 * whales