The fungi appear to be especially good at exploiting this impulse :)
A few years ago there was an article posted on Slashdot about Russian and Japanese scientists cooperating on the attempt to clone a wooly mammoth.
About half the comments were about eating the mammoth and what it would taste like. :)
Wikipedia does in fact say that the Holocene Extinction is an ongoing event. And really, how very cool and interesting that something our ancestors hunted to extinction will be resurrected and eaten once more!
We can eat the fruiting bodies, the "mushrooms" which the fungus sends up above the surface of the soil for reproductive purposes. Evidently they smell bad raw, but when you cook them they're delicious.
If you don’t eat, you’ll die. I’d say you’re being sensible...