There is no reason from a dietary or metabolic point of view not to feed on felines such as leopards or tigers, canids – dogs, wolves -, rodents or other carnivorous animals. Their meat is composed of the same nutrient elements as that of herbivores: water, proteins, fats and mineral salts.
If we do not do it normally, at least in our culinary tradition, it is because it would be very expensive to breed predators solely to include them in our diet, since they, in turn, need significant amounts of meat daily to eat. Nor does it seem reasonable to go to the Serengeti to hunt lions, apart from the fact that they are wild and aggressive animals that do not seem very willing to be tamed.
In any case, some carnivorous animals already appear in our diet, although they are not mammals. They are the fish, which feed on other fish. On the other hand, in times of famine, humans have resorted to any solution to survive. In addition, the gastronomic habits of some cultures far from Western customs include insects, reptiles, such as snakes and lizards, monkeys and even domestic dogs and cats . Who knows if we've ever eaten them ourselves, even if unintentionally? Hence the cat for a hare.
