diff --git a/data/json/items/comestibles/carnivore.json b/data/json/items/comestibles/carnivore.json
index 740dcafb0c8d..e70341d64915 100644
--- a/data/json/items/comestibles/carnivore.json
+++ b/data/json/items/comestibles/carnivore.json
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@
     "quench": -10,
     "healthy": -2,
     "calories": 18,
-    "description": "A smooth grayish block of cleaned and rendered monster fat.  It will remain 'fresh' for a very long time, and can be used as an ingredient in many projects.  You could eat it, but it will poison you.",
+    "description": "A smooth grayish block of cleaned and rendered monster fat.  It will remain 'fresh' for a very long time, and can be used as an ingredient in many projects.  You can eat it, but it will poison you.",
     "price": "0 cent",
     "price_postapoc": "50 cent",
     "//": "Not for use in edible/foodsafe recipes.  Inefficiency is handled by tainted tallow recipe requiring 200% as much materials input as regular tallow recipe.",