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[Mass Effect] Is it safe to eat varren meat? What about other animals?

I'm a human moving to a world which is multi-species but essentially in salarian space and I'm wondering - aliens use varren in the same way we use dogs but they also eat them. Well, some cultures on Earth eat dogs, but... how edible are the? Are species from other worlds safe to eat?
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The colonists on Feros ate Varren left behind by Saren's Krogan after the alpha was killed and the pack became less organized. One of the colonists remarked that it tasted awful but kept them alive until more supplies were shipped in.
Eating meat from an alien biosphere is always risky, though. The crew of the Hugo Gernsback found that out the hard way on the planet 2175 Aeia. They suffered from neurological decay from the toxins in all the native plant life. It may or may not be a defense against local fauna, but it had that effect on the Human crew.
A Human can also only draw nutrients from similar amino acids. At best this means that eating Turian  chocolates will give a human the runs, at worst it will cause them to go into Anaphylactic Shock and die.
More metropolitan areas will have species-specific restaurants and menus, but it doesn't hurt to be careful and invest in some sort of a test kit.