#I know there's the possibility of silicon-based life but those most likely wouldn't be edible

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Thinking up an alien world settled by humans and I'm dealing with a major dilemma of whether to make the planet's creatures carbon-based like Earth's animals or go insane and try to come up with a whole new element similar enough to carbon to not only allow life, but also for the animals to be edible to humans