You can't farm them & you need a permit to be able to harvest them for retail consumption. Lots of regulations.
People hunt them but rarely harvest the animal. I've never understood that
It's often sold as cheap lean mince or as a novelty in tourist restaurants. You can usually buy it in the supermarket.
I used to think that a major factor in determining long term survival of a species is its deliciousness. As in: if only there was a good recipe for rhinoceros, there would be plenty of rhinos.
Turns out that reproduction rate and farmability play a big role, too.
Anyone have a delicious idea for cockroach? Klaus Schwab maybe?
If bananas weren't tasty to humans, they wouldn't have spread throughout the world. They don't produce viable seeds and rely on humans for propogation.
The humble meat chicken is a generic abomination. They cannot exist without human assistance. They can barely walk under the weight they carry. Most don't live long enough to ever lay an egg. Their genetic survival is secured by being tasty to humans but they're existence is sad.
Did you say, you were touring Oz right now?
