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* ''Literature/Discworld'': In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', the titular elephant crashed into the Disc millennia ago, leaving large fat deposits in {{Uberwald}} that are still mined to this day.

* In ''Spiders 3D'', the giant spider-alien hybrids were being bred in captivity because their silk would have industrial and military applications.

** In [[WebVideo/CriticalRole Exandria]], the town of Tomb of the Worm was founded by settlers who found part of an EldritchAbomination's body poking through the ice of the tundra, and discovered that its meat could be harvested and eaten as it quickly grew back. The abomination, Quajath the Undermaw, tolerates being eaten in this manner since it makes the townsfolk susceptible to being mind controlled and becoming his cultists.

** There was an article detailing how a variety of dragons could be eaten. Red Dragon in particular, took a great deal of care to eat, or else the consequences could be dire
** It's not uncommon for some players to just decide their characters want to cook and eat various monsters. Dark Mantles are like magic squid and Chuul are crustaceous in appearance, why not try a bite?
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', vampires from the Kargat secret police dole out their blood to human minions, the Kargatane, as a means of increasing their strength and delaying their rate of aging.

* ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' features a sort of steroid-cum-amphetamine called "R". One guess where it's coming from.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': [[ThePrecursors First Age]] bioengineers created a breed of dinosaurs that can consume plants containing useful substances, process them in their bodies and pee out the refined chemical, which they farmed as living chemical refineries. Many breeds were created, each meant to produce a different substance, but most went extinct after the fall of the First Age civilization. Some still exist, however, and are farmed in the same manner as they were bred for -- the most common is one that eats poppies and pees out heroin.

* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has [[spoiler: The Eye of Helios, a WaveMotionGun powered by the remains of the final boss of the first game fueled by [[GreenRocks Eridium slag]]. It is destroyed by Moxxi, Roland and Lilith to keep Jack from abusing its power.]]

* In Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, Knowhere is a mining complex/city carved into the severed head of a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]] that is large enough to have its own gravitational pull and atmosphere. According to Gamora, the workers there are harvesting brain matter, spinal fluid and other organic matter to sell on the black market.

** ''Wealthy'', foolhardy clientele can snort {{Mummy}} paste if they don't mind the risk of [[TheVirus spontaneously transforming]] into an undead monstrosity. This is a case of AluminumChristmasTrees: mummy powders and extracts were used as drugs on and off for centuries and as late as the 1920s, albeit -- so far as anyone knows -- without that particular side effect.

** The Imperium hates aliens and usually deals with them by a lasgun shot to the head. However some aliens have proven themselves useful and so certain Imperial factions have corralled them for their own benefit. One example are the Jokaero, a barely sentient species of orangutan-like aliens who are somehow master engineers and technologists. The Jokaero can be used to upgrade existing equipment or produce unique pieces of technology, such as rings that pack as much firepower as their pistol equivalents.
** The Imperium hates Chaos with a passion, and [[TheLegionsOfHell for good reason,]] but they won't admit that humanity ''needs'' Chaos to function. [[HyperSpaceIsAScaryPlace The Warp]] is a very effective FasterThanLightTravel option[[labelnote:*]]Background lore noted that they tried a different FTL method only to go back for Warp Drives as it's the most reliable; makes you wonder how bad the other FTL method was[[/labelnote]], and the Chaos-catalyzed mutations that led to Psykers is necessary to train Navigators and to keep the Astronomican running. And there's also the practice of creating Daemonhosts, a forced DemonicPossession that results in a SealedInAPersonShapedCan situation for the Demon, who can then be interrogated.
** One main source of Imperium food is Grox meat. Grox are dangerous lizard cow dinosaurs who need to be lobotomized. Ambulls, who are strong enough to basically be a BonusBoss in the Blackstone Fortress tabletop game, can also be quite tasty (as pointed out in a Ciaphas Cain book and The Regimental Standard publication), and some of them are raised to be used as biological components and materials for the mechanical Ambots as well.

*** Ashwood Abbey sees monsters as good fun. One of their common reactions to meeting some new supernatural creature is, "Is there any way I can get high off of the internal processes of this being?"

Where most people see danger in monstrous creatures, some see dollar signs. When a monster is the source of a substance (often a drug) that can be sold for massive profits, or bartered for power over others, then people looking to cash in on its byproducts may prove more dangerous than the creature itself. If the source-creature is non-sentient, expect it to be [[CapturedSuperEntity kept captive as a resource]], until it escapes and goes on a rampage. If it's intelligent, expect it to bind hordes of Mooks to its service with its "gifts", to say nothing of people in positions of political influence... or to be kept [[PoweredByAForsakenChild captive as a resource]] anyway. Either way, expect those who crave its byproducts to stand between it and any pesky do-gooder monster hunters who might cut off their supply.

->''Every part of the Kaiju sells. Cartilage, spleen, liver... Even the '''crap!''' One cubic meter of crap has enough phosphorus in it to fertilize a whole field!''

-->'''Hannibal Chau''', ''Film/PacificRim''

* ''Film/ShinGodzilla'': The Americans discovered Godzilla long before he hit land, but kept this secret so as to be the first to benefit from researching its BizarreAlienBiology (including a new element formed inside its body). [[spoiler:As Godzilla is left frozen but intact, many are hoping such discoveries could help fund the reconstruction of Tokyo.]]

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam does this a bunch of times with demon blood. He uses it during the season 4 arc to enhance his psychic capabilities to be able to remove a demon possessing a victim without harming the host. He then becomes somewhat addicted to the substance, even keeping a victim possessed so that he can "bulk up" for the final fight.

* Every single monster giblet you collect in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' can be sold to the R&D lab to be turned into a component for new armor or weapons.

* In the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series - the various creatures are hunted because they provide nutritious meat, have body parts with supernatural properties for crafting, there's useful research derived or else their populations need culling. There's always plenty of zenny to be had when you take down a monster.

** In [[WebVideo/CriticalRole Exandria]], the town of Tomb of the Worm was founded by settlers who found part of an EldritchAbomination's body poking through the ice of the tundra, and discovered that it's meat could be harvested and eaten as it quickly grew back. The abomination, Quajath the Undermaw, tolerates being eaten in this manner since it makes the townsfolk susceptible to being mind controlled and becoming his cultists.

* ''VideoGame/{[Minecraft}}'' has pretty much every type of mob drop useful items. Experienced players will even build [[https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Mob_farm mob farms]] to automatically slaughter mobs and harvest their drops.

** ''TabletopGames/MummyTheCurse'' has Last Dynasty, Inc, which has found that Sekhem, the energy that reflects the strength of a mummy's connection to life and magic, can be used to create healthier steroids, life extension treatments, and vaccines. They have become a pharmaceutical firm dedicated to making the world a better place, even if it means they have to reap this energy from mummies and the sacred artifacts they protect.