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@Mrsbells: It's called balut, and you can usually get it at asian stores. i think it's gross, sorry!!

I can do veal, but i get nauseous thinking about balut.

I eat lamb and veal. I figure I'm already eating an animal, does it matter if it was young or old?

I'm not opposed to eating the eggs, but never have tried them. I am quite fond of veal & peppers.

I don't eat any meat! Baby or otherwise.

I can, but I definitely think of it differently now that I'm a mom! I ate balut a few weeks ago and pretty much closed my eyes and ate it. So good yet so bad. sigh...

The truth is that almost all of the meat we eat is "baby" at least in relative terms to the animals. Unless you're eating a heritage chicken, most likely you're getting a cornish cross bird which is harvested at 7 weeks. The vast majority of beef is harvested at 16-18 months old. Pork, 5-6 months...and of course you rarely run into any sheep older than a lamb (hogget, mutton)

Given that these animals definitely could live for years, I can hardly consider them "adults."

I'd love to eat older animals, but for the most part not too many farmers can afford to keep and feed older animals, and there's almost no market for it anyway.

That being said, I do like suckling pigs and love young calf (like veal, but without the cages, free-roaming, and eating grass). For chickens I've probably only had a handful of birds that weren't the normal cornish cross. But even those can taste pretty good when they've had pasture.

I've had balut, but I'm still of the opinion that it's eaten more for shock value than culinary value.

I love lamb and veal!

I eat a lot of Greek food, so I love lamb!

I've eaten lamb and veal. Veal only at restaurants though, if there's nothing else I want. We raises lamb once and found out that "lamb" is not like the tiny "Mary had a little lamb" size. They're huge! Regardless, I didn't really care for it either. I think I like the tastes of more mature meats better.

I eat veal. I also eat salmon roe...does that count?