There are a few that do eat them. Actually I am thinking of doing the same but must get over my initial revulsion. I remember when I was a kid and I hesitated about eating a raw clam but my father encouraged me to just do it. I did and have loved raw clams and oysters ever since. Perhaps the same will apply to iguanas... But I need to have a lot of rum in me to prepare me for that first time. I am thinking of hunting them with a blowgun. And then grill up iguana tail which is supposed to be the best part.
They really do taste just like chicken... because their molecular physiology is the same. It’s one time when the cliché is accurate. I don’t get why the hesitation.