Hippo Steak anyone?

Why don’t we raise hippos for meat? It seems like they could be a good food source.

It was considered! There was once a proposal to introduce them to I think the Mississippi, for exactly this reason. The writer Sarah Gailey wrote an alternate-history novel in which they went ahead and did it, called River of Teeth.

The issue was I assume that while hippos would definitely make good eating, they are also massive, terrifying, deadly creatures who are responsible for more deaths in Africa per year than big cats etc. They can run at 20mph and while they look fat, that physique is mostly muscle.

Source: Quora