Why Don't Humans Eat Lion Meat?

Have you ever been so hungry that you could eat a … lion?

Many people shy away from eating meat from these exotic beasts not because lion meat is tough or tasteless, but rather expensive.

Every time an animal eats food, only a fraction of the food biomass is converted to the animal’s biomass.  

·         It takes 200 pounds of corn to produce 100 pounds of chicken. 

·         It takes 260 pounds of corn to produce 100 pounds of beef.

·         It takes 360 pounds of corn to produce 100 pounds of pork.

A lion consumes over 10 pounds of meat per day and takes about 2 to 3 years to become an adult weighing 400 pounds. By then, it would have consumed over 10,000 pounds of herbivore meat, which in turn would require 30,000 pounds of corn.  

At a cost of 14 cents per pound of corn, the food cost alone would be over $500 per pound of lion meat! Add the cost of land and labor; lion burger becomes prohibitively expensive.

You know what? I’ll take the chicken, please.

References:

http://www.foodandfuelamerica.com/2007/06/how-much-corn-is-acually-represented-in.html

https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491838868&sr=8-1&keywords=guns+germs+and+steel