Breeding China Meat Research 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2024
They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.
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