Jef the Taxonomy Geek

I seem to be momentarily obsessed with the following bit of trivia: What is the number of different Classes of organisms eaten by humans? What the significance of the answer to this question may be is up for grabs.

I’ve decided to make the question more digestible (ha!) by simplifying it thus: What is the number of different Classes of animals commonly eaten by North Americans? If I’m still obsessed by this later, I can try to tackle the other Kingdoms of life, and the edible oddities of North Americans and other cultures.
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