that Dormice are best served deep fried in a light batter, the meat pretty much falls off the bone. The Edible Dormouse (as opposed to Angharad's tiny little woodland examples) are quite nutritious, the Romans considered them quite a delicacy.

And I don't eat hedgehogs either.

Cattle,sheep, goats, pigs, chickens would all be extinct except we domesticated them for food. Dogs and cats are also dependent upon us for survival and they are carnivores. Yes Alan, the world would be very different if we became vegan. In fact anthropologists believe meat eating is causal to our brain size development and the rise of Homo which ever species from north Western Africa. The health problems are a trade off for landing on the moon. The planetary and climate problems are signs of human over population. Soon enough a global catastrophe will be followed by a massive population crash. If our species survives we’ll be in small scattered bands with out technology like BCTS to share our thoughts through. And no, vegan survival in that scenario is improbable (cress, frog legs, snails, grubs are foods discovered by starvation IMHO).

except to say, edible dormice Glis glis are an alien species in the UK and are spreading at 5km per year. In other parts of Europe they are adversely affecting Hazel Dormice Muscardinus avellanarius and the garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus because they outcompete them due to size as they all eat similar food and nest in similar places, it's known as interspecific competition. It's become worse as habitats and natural food sources disappear due to human activity eg intensive agriculture, pollution and climate change. Effectively, we're destroying our own planet and it's only a matter of time before we destroy ourselves, either by greed or aggression, which is intraspecific competition. You could say we've shat in our own nests.