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by jh00ker 183 days ago
"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poultry, or other animals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Etymology

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Fun fact: in various contexts and languages, rabbits are sometimes considered poultry despite being mammals.
ah of course, everybody knows the reptile chicken is not meat