Do the forces of the imperium eat xenos?

[Hendarion]

Jesus... whenever you think 40k is silly, warseer comes up with such topics. Ridiculous. Now I want cartoon-style Orks back.

[Lothlanathorian]

Jesus... whenever you think 40k is silly, warseer comes up with such topics. Ridiculous. Now I want cartoon-style Orks back.

If it makes you feel better, this isn't the first time this topic has come up on Warseer.

[El_Machinae]

You might be able to cook and ferment ork enough to make it not poisonous.

[DietDolphin]

Even Kroot don't eat tyranids. There was a bit of fluff about it in WD once. The Shapers can tell there's something off with them. They manage to assimilate Orks though.

Actually they do eat them. The shaper can tell that the Tyranids, just like the kroot, eat to evolve and worries that if they eat the tyranids that it would result in crazy consequences, but he doesn't stop the kroot from killing and eating the Tyranids. Would be cool to see some crazy ever-evolving hungry hungry big bird tyranid thats the result of eating kroot.

[gutsmaka]

If it makes you feel better, this isn't the first time this topic has come up on Warseer.

almost everything has come up on warseer before, its a giant cycle. concrete proof that history repeats itself...

[El_Machinae]

Imagine what it would be like in 40k! Ancient references to our wisdom, whispered by heretics.

[stormblade]

You might be able to cook and ferment ork enough to make it not poisonous.

Now I can't stop wondering if they would go better with white or red wine.
probably red.

[El_Machinae]

I'd suggest coffee or tea.

Fermented ork, it's what's for breakfast.

[FashaTheDog]

Ork'in Donuts presents the M41 breakfast deal: small coffee, an Ork egg & cheese bagel, and a strawberry hormagaunt danish.

[The Warmaster]

Ambulls are semi-intelligent and are - according to the ciphais cain novels - considered a delicacy.

Fun fact: They're also one of the species that inhabits Luther McIntyre IX (the world that Kharn the Betrayer's chainaxe got its teeth from). I think one of the Ciaphas Cain novels mentions that, too.

As for the main topic, I'd say there are likely exceptions to the usual rules ("shall not suffer the alien to live", etc.) when it comes to xenos species that can be cultivated for consumption, like Grox, Ambulls, etc. The Imperium has been making exceptions like this in all aspects of life and war since the Horus Heresy, where Rune Priests seem to have been treated as an exception to the otherwise Legion-wide psyker ban because - from what I gathered while reading A Thousand Sons - it was in the Emperor's best interests.

[dugaal]

Remember in the rogue trader days where most of the Imperium was isolated and outlandish and you could tell any sci fi story so long as it was in a remote enough corner of the galaxy? Ok well that period was a joke but still... Humans somewhere in the galaxy calling themselves Imperials are doing a whole lot more than that

Of course scouts used shuriken catapults back then...