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We also eat less animal thyroid.

Are you referring to the actual organ? How was that eaten? And which animals? I enjoy weird foods, but I can't say I've ever seen thyroid on a menu.

The generic term in sweetbread, though it covers a variety of organs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread

That would be thymus, not thyroid. Those are pretty different glands.

The thymus is not the thyroid gland, if that's the connection you're trying to make. AFAIK the thyroid gland is not deliberately consumed unless as medicine.

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