No I would not. I don't know what it is made of (the life on their planet could be silica based for example), and I don't know how that would interact with my body if ingested.
Assuming they got here, they are probably smart enough to know if they could ingest beef, so I'd be fine offering it to them and finding out if they accept or not.
Ok good answer, now if you knew 100% that it would not hurt you in any way or have any long term effects?
I would need to find out more about the beings offering this food. Where they come from, what their society is like, what their intentions are etc. By "not harm me" will it have any other side effects like render me unconscious so they could do experiments on me and return me "unharmed". Maybe get some of it to a lab first or see how it goes if a Terran predator of similar weight a human consumed this meat.
You are going pretty deep into it nice. I like the idea of wanting to know their societal structure around it.
When I asked the question I was picturing it as a near exact copy of the relationship we currently have with beef, a creature of similar biology we raise for food. (I like eating beef the thought just popped into my head)
So it would be like a dinner party where we had an interstellar pot luck.
Oh for sure. Hell, I'd eat the aliens if they were into cannibalism. Maybe that's how they make friends.
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