Seriously, it makes no sense! Pokemon have LITERALLY been established to be eaten ever since Generation 1, and Pokemon are still eaten in-universe to this very day. New food-themed Pokemon are made ALL THE TIME, and the eating hasn’t stopped.
Know what the worst part is?
YOU CAN’T EVEN QUESTION THEM!
They get all angry and pissed off, and they refuse to answer the question. “People will find a way to ruin it, and you don’t need to know how!” they say, as if literally ANY conversation can’t be ruined.
Pokemon is a dark franchise that is LITERALLY about animal abuse and child gambling, and it’s full of innapropriate themes. Despite popular belief, Pokemon is NOT an innocent franchise at all!
Why can’t we talk about eating Pokemon if it CANONICALLY HAPPENS all the time?! Why the fuck can’t we even question them?!
I mean, while it is cannon, they mostly avoid it nowadays because there is so much weird stuff around it. While Pokemon are depicted as animals, many are suggested to be sentient and/or just as intelligent as humans, so things get very messy even within the universal canonical stuff, nonetheless stuff that they’ve swept under the rug.
People also get incensed about it, and at that point, there’s rather an open question about whether an actual productive discussion to be had at all, or whether people would simply start shouting at each other whilst everything goes up on fire.
“Mostly avoid it nowadays”, my ass!
It’s still a MAJOR part of the Pokemon franchise to this day! Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and even THE LEGENDS GAMES make all sorts of establishments where Pokemon are eaten, wether they’re in Pokedex entries to the literal food you eat in-game. So saying “they mostly avoid it nowadays” is bullshit.