It’s always amazed me that in nearly every Zombie movie you see there are scenes of zombies chomping on the yards of smaller intestines like they are sausage or something. Amazing.
The reason you don’t want to damage the intestines is to keep what’s inside them from tainting everything else that is edible. Very messy, smelly and unsanitary.
A deer disemboweled itself on the fender of my car while it was doing 55 MPH (the car, not the deer). I could tell exactly what its last meals were, it wasn’t pretty, I can tell you.