>>30968432Whenever I see drawings of felines, canines, of vulpines with tongs hanging out, for some reason I can't help but think of pic related
>>30967563As I write I try to interpret it as lower-order animals (e.g. fish, small invertebrates) exist thanks to out-reproducing, but higher-order ones (e.g. Carnivorans) don't due to being out-competed. I ALSO try to write that not all pokemon are sapient, and eating those that are less so is probably not frowned upon. I haven't written* for any of these species yet is all.
in BSTF, as an island community, I could get away with 'fish', and I believe we've seen non-pokemon fish exist in canon before. There's one reference to terrestrial meat.
In the fic I'm currently writing it goes a lot farther, partially because it's supposed to be in a wilderness scenario. The characters carry an undefined type of jerky as part of their rations, and upon coming across an already-dead (and cooked, though a tad overdone) Scyther, an offhand comment is made about edibility but the discussion doesn't get much further.
Ultimately, as Snapath pointed out, there are canonical statements about pokemon edibility, but the series just tends to avoid it. You need not.
*Blaziken would normally be one less-sapient species, but the one I'm currently writing for has extenuating circumstances that I hope I've made exceedingly obvious in its first couple scenes.
