Some UK supermarkets sell ‘exotic meats’ like ostrich, crocodile and kangaroo. But welfare laws are likely even less stringent than they are for barn animals in England. Crocodiles are often skinned alive to make handbags and shoes and kangaroos are often clubbed to death (with their joeys left to starve) for the football boot industry, so it’s likely these animals used for food suffer the same fates. Ostriches (the world’s largest birds) are also often killed (along with emus) for the beauty industry.
Some online stores even sell foods like zebra? Many supermarket had to take wild boar off the shelves, due to consumer boycotts. And there were more boycotts abroad, when some supermarkets started to stock snake. They may be advertised as ‘low-cholesterol’ alternatives, but all animal foods have cholesterol (even chicken has the same cholesterol as beef). The only way to avoid bad cholesterol is to avoid animal foods – cholesterol is stored in the liver, and broccoli doesn’t have one! Also read about kinder alternatives to pate de foie gras.