I think this is swaying in the opposite direction too much. I mean it is food in the sense that is edible and calorie wise, pretty good. Easy to see why people used to eat meat.

There's a side question to the one in OP along the lines of would you eat tongue or heart, or one step further, liver of an animal. Even back when I used to eat meat I thought it was pretty fucked and contradictory for meat eaters to enjoy things only as insofar they've been brought up on a very sterilized version of it and wouldn't touch the other stuff - especially heart and tongue, that's still just muscle, that's not even like organ-y