Thread: Eating Psychic-type/Intelligent Pokemon?

The way I see Pokémon is that they are energy forms (and we could take a leap and say that so is the actual, existing world, but let's not go there now). I would think that consuming them would be difficult, since their physical body is so different to that of a human.

However, since the SlowpokeTail opened the "actually, we do eat Pokémon" -door, I think it would be cool and amusing if they just went ahead and had Tangela soup, Miltank beef and Cherubi-covered Vanillish for dessert. The player would obviously have the choice to either have a little nom nom nom —moment with his bowl of seared Dratini or not.

I also think that the concept of what is intelligence and how much attention we pay to it, is very culture-specific and since the Pokémon world seems to exist as a somewhat culture void, it's difficult to say whether they'd consider eating 'intelligent things' — I would say that the 'high-minded' people in the games, like the Professors and Cynthia, seem to regard most living things and most natural things as 'intelligent', but that doesn't stop them from being pitted against each other for kicks and cash money.

Originally Posted by Karpi

Perhaps the Neanderthals had survived. Would we eat them?

There is evidence that suggests Homo Sapiens really did eat Neanderthals...as well as interbreed with them, but that's a different matter, really.

I would imagine that the average person would be against eating a pokemon, particularly an intelligent one, but I'm sure someone like Giovanni would have no qualms about it, and probably dine upon rare pokemon regularly.