Where's the feast?

[HaleyRocks]

I watched my pigs grow fatty, juicy and look delicious!

My chickens look absolutely tasty!

I badly crave some roast chicken (which by the way, is my most favorite thing ever and i even registered that in-game, to display whenever eating stardrops), some pork, a roast lamb, a deluxe bovine part prepared and cooked accordingly, some duck fillet, some rabbit stew, or that exotic delicacy, ostrich!

Post a short research and to my grief, i realized you cannot feast upon the animals you raise... Why? Those raised naturally, taste way better than super-market products, are very healthy to consume and could make other villagers happy! Is there any way to cook and eat some of the animals we raise? Will there be an update that is going to allow it?

 

[Maher]

It's a puzzle. Day to day diet is pescatarian, but Festivals seem to feature roasted meat entrees, from roast turkey at Winter Star to to pork at the Fair to whatever Linus roasts at the Luau.

It gets even weirder when you consider that Animals don't talk to you, but fish in ponds do.

 

[Ereo]

As far as I know it was considered in the development, but in the end the developer felt it was incongruent with the tone of the game to eat your animals. Therefore I don’t think it will be added.
If you’re on pc or Android, there are mods for this.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

As ereo said, CA thought it just didn’t fit the game to kill the animals you spent raising in the valley and because of that we don’t really have much incorporation of meat that isn’t from fish. Sometimes meat is mentioned in festivals but often it’s misattributed like Evelyn mentioning how the survival burgers at the fair contain meat (by wondering “why their aren’t vegetarian options”) meat when they aren’t.

 

[VampireCake]

It gets even weirder when you consider that Animals don't talk to you, but fish in ponds do.

And slimes are the only thing with distinct genders, every other animal appears to reproduce asexually. (It's my personal headcanon that this is where rabbit feet come from, they just bud off in an act of incomplete reproduction.)

 

[MogBeoulve]

And slimes are the only thing with distinct genders, every other animal appears to reproduce asexually. (It's my personal headcanon that this is where rabbit feet come from, they just bud off in an act of incomplete reproduction.)

My headcanon is that rabbits craft fake feet out of wool, but this is also acceptable.