Do male and female cows/chickens/pork/ fish, taste different?

Just stickies with fish, in many cases the male and female appear different.
Not unlike birds.

Males, would likely have gonads, that produce sexual organs, like fish balls. Females can have egg rows or things that I would think would change the taste.

Much, actually likely depends on diet. Things ARE what they eat.
When fishing for crappie, as soon as you catch a fish, wherever you are fishing, you should match the colors of your bait/plugs to their color.
The reason being, the fish are likely already eating something that color, or they’d be a different color. So. If you want the fish, to bite, in theory a lure that matches what they typically hunt for/eat, makes sense.
Crappie fishermen, swear by shit like that. But. Maybe they spend TOO much time fishing. I don’t know.

I think diet is probably the biggest factor, in different tasting animals that are the same, but from different places.

I know people want “grass fed” beef, for example.

With some fish, the genders are very different. Some fish, are actually hermaphrodidic. (Both male and female.)

Hormones, are VERY powerful, it wouldn’t surprise me, if genders tasted different.

I’ve eaten lots of chicken. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a rooster.
Most eggs, are unfertalized, and therfore are really no animal. (Unless you’re a conservative, everything is a life, except the poor and destitute. Fuck them.)

I wager, well see some actual stories or anecdotal information, from more learned jellies..

My Gramps thought it did!! He had breeder & feeder cows & pigs. The male feeders would be castrated within the first few days of their life to ensure better tasting meat come slaughter. Females were fine just like they were. At the time the males realized that they were getting ready to be dispatched, they would secrete a hormone that ruined the taste of the meat. i don’t know if that was true or not because Gramps castrated them within the first week or so & I never learned the difference.

You don’t slaughter roosters as there is usually only 1 who is servicing the whole flock of hens. So, you always ate the hens & not the rooster so I don’t know what the difference in taste would be.

I know of NO difference with fish. Their taste would come from their environment & the male & female would most likely share the same environment.

Absolutely.

Not that I’ve ever noticed. I used to raise chickens and have killed and eaten both roosters and hens and didn’t notice any difference. The biggest difference is noted in what their diet is. And I believe that to be true of all creatures.

Yes. Pigs are castrated so their meat tastes and smells better. It also reduces aggression.

I hate thinking about what our “meat” has to endure.
My friends buy whole pigs, from this old guy who is probably not nice to his pigs, but largely just let them free roam at least.

I time, we went there to get a pig.
Normally, we got the pig I guess after it was killed and slightly cleaned.
On that occasion, he had chosen a pig of the size we wanted, and put it in a small old metal cage.
He showed my friend the pig, and he said that would work.
Out of nowhere, fucking old man pulls out a small .22 pistol, and shot the pig in the ear. (Hunters who hunt wild boar, actually will go with small/accurate calibers, and instead of trying to get a large caliber bullet through the boars head or shoulders, just plink them in their ear holes and their is a weak spot there in the skull. )
The pig, did not die immediately.
It struggled mightily, and vicalized a lot. It was not ok, to watch.
The old guy started talking back to my other friend about the money, and we were all just watching this poor pig suffer.
The old guy, was oblivious to the suffering of the pig. The act of shooting the pig, was opening a beer for him.
My friend who was buying the pig, had to interrupt the guy, and ask him to shoot the pig again. To put it out of it’s blatant misery.
The guy started talking about how hard it was to find that cartridge, and not wanting to waste another bullet. He was like “it’ll die.” He just couldn’t understand our displeasure in watching the pig suffer.
He eventually practically called us gay, but then leaned over and fired 2 (more carefully) aimed shots into the pig. Which was a mild upgrade over the previous situation, but also traumatic.
I never went to help carrying the pig again.
I have eaten from countless whole pigs. We have “pig pickins,” in the fall and winter.
Where we all hang out, and just pull of choice pieces as you chill. Often we don’t use plates. Especially if a woman was involved in the decision making. They think of important things like that.
It’s the whole pig, sitting on typically some type of homemade trailer/BBQ pit’s grill.
Usually the head, is sitting next to the body. We all pull chunks of it’s skull, and I guess we are pretty desensitized and complicit about the primitive nature of the event.

It’s been lost on many people, that we are also animals. Honestly not much different from the creatures we consume.
But. I was raised with a Vietnam veteran/former Drill Sargeant after he was wounded, who still acted and certainly treated me as if we were soldiers, and he hunted often. He would ignore my mother, and my father would clean a bunch of squirrels or fish right in the kitchen sink. He would show a very disinterested me, how to “clean” each animal.
In retrospect, information I actually value and consider rare now.

I don’t really hunt. I have hunted, with others, but never planned on shooting anything except a random wild boar or something.
I have hunted small game, when I was pretty young, but not anymore. I have grown to not like some of the necessary parts of fishing. An activity that I’ve always loved.
But. I don’t catch very many fish, with false baits/lures. I always feel bar for the fish, as I’m taking the hook out. I NEVER believed that fish don’t feel pain. Fish, can’t scream.

There are a multitude of very cruel ways of raising certain things. I forget what it’s called, but there’s a process that these farmers use, with ducks or geese. They essentially force feed the animals until they get a fatty liver. The fatty liver, is a delicacy I guess.

I would probably ear 3D printed “meat.” As long as it has the benefits of animal protein still there I’d eat it.

@MrGrimm888 makes another point, though I’m not sure it was the one he was trying to make. If an animal dies quickly, there is less adrenaline kicking through its system. That can make meat taste a bit off, a bit gamey.

Yeah. I have heard both sides of the adrenaline argument.
I do think, westerners believe that a quick death, is best for meat quality. Especially, every hunter I’ve ever talked to.

There are places, in Asia, where the opposite opinion is the popular concept.
I wasn’t going to bring it up, but I may as well here.
But when an animal is killed, in some cases, the belief is that the greater the animal suffers, the better the meat.
The people who do eat dogs, in many cases watched a street butcher torture a dog to death, and I guess were pleased with the suffering.
To be fair it is now alledgedly becoming far more rare, that some of these older traditions are being pulled from society.
I believe they recently made it illegal, to eat dogs in South Korea. And I do think more modern Asian countries, actually like dogs, and don’t like things to suffer at all.

Again, to be fair, I know that in many of those Asian countries, have often endured great hunger. But. That doesn’t excuse the torturing animals, or eating them alive. That’s some morbid shit.

To me, I would rather my meat taste slightly different if it meant saving it some of the horrors in death.

I eat gator often. Well. More than most people in the world, but less than a N.O. swamp guy.

The way they capture/kill alligators, is usually a big fight, and the animal undergoes great misery. They don’t “shoot em” here. But they tie them up, and slice their throat with a knife.
Their meat, is always “gamey.”
We typically soak gator, in orange juice, before cooking.
Something about the acid, removes that water lizard taste.
It may effect the rubbery-ness of the meat as well. That I can’t speak on.