[OC] How the meat of different animals compares, based on USDA data

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1. Though fish fat is “good” fat.

2. Lobster is only low-fat if you don’t drown it in butter.

3. Gonna brb, shooting raccoons and getting jacked

4. We have no excuses now when she asks

5. If this isn’t a sign telling us to eat more beaver, I don’t know what is.

6. Mmmmmm, beaver… [drooling]

7. We’ll start to see MAHA influencers hunting and eating beavers soon.

   I’ll let you decide what kind of beaver.

8. Turtles, frogs, and snails are shellfish?

9. BRB gonna go shoot me a moose

10. This chart should be taken with a very LARGE grain of salt. It’s both vague and inaccurate.

    It appears that OP got the X and Y axis reversed. Catfish has 7g fat and 18g protein.

    Also, an entry for “trout” is vague. Rainbow trout is extremely lean, but brown trout has a fair amount of fat.

11. This is incredible, thank you for posting. Going beaver hunting this weekend.

12. So this is why I hate turkey lobster and tuna

13. Categorizing frog and octopus as shellfish is crazy work

14. Classifying frog legs and Turtle as…shellfish? is a choice…

15. We used to eat squirrel sometimes when I was a kid. Not bad meat I guess.

16. The color coding is pretty unfriendly for those of us who are color challenged.

17. Please tell me I’m the only one that just couldn’t find “cow.”

18. We don’t eat armadillos around here.. Or beavers and raccoons for that matter.

19. Damn, this is a cool visualization! Because I am a picky eater and I can narrow in a box of the meat I eat.

    And animal rights and social acceptance aside, I’m not interested in Beaver meet, but if it’s further from my square of comfort, I am less likely to like it either. There’s a gamey line. There’s a low fat, low protein meat that I’ve always described as watery in the taste.

    Awesome post. Thanks for sharing!

20. I was just reading a book about the Revolutionary War which talked about a British General’s German wife coming over from Europe to Canada to be with him, and discovering that grilled bear meat was delicious. Apparently the paws were her favorite.

    Now I see why.

21. idk what the USDA is smoking on protein content; that’s pretty high for beef, and lol that they didn’t even bother including grass-fed (which has way less fat)

22. Squirrel on a stick def gonna be the wasteland favorite.

23. I mean I know turtle has a shell on it, but I wouldn’t call it a shellfish…

24. With some of the odd animals on the list I’m surprised they don’t have crickets which I assume is eaten more than say armadillo.

25. Food animals is a term used loosely here i see.

26. Gym bros gonna hunt beavers to extinction now

27. Good to see Moose and Squirrel teaming up there.

28. A lot of those animals aren’t food. Don’t eat an armadillo no matter how high its protein to weight ratio is

29. Now we just need to crossbreed the goose and the beaver.

    Geaver

    Boose

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