Is pigeon flesh eatable ? What could be the bad effects if any.?!

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Yes they are edible and a more gamier to the taste.
I would recommend wild birds rather than farmed, but they are popular in England I know from TV food shows.

I would be concerned with 'city' birds that could be exposed to city pollution.

It is eaten in many countries in the world, known as squab in gourmet restaurants. A sweet pie is made using the flesh of pigeons in Morocco. Doves are similar to pigeons and in the same bird family and are hunted and eaten regularly. They are a wild game bird and probably healthier in the long run than a diet of hormone treated commercially raised in over-crowded condition chickens. I don't know of any "side" effects, it is a food source.

Yes. Doves are a kind of Pigeon. Squab is a young Pigeon that has not developed pin feathers. Very good eating. Adult Pigeon is also very tasty. Can get tough. Pigeons have been eaten for as long as people could catch them. No different than eating any other kind of fowl. All dark meat though.

I wouldn't recommend picking up a mangy pigeon from a city centre and taking it home for dinner (think that's probably illegal in a lot of places) but pigeons themselves don't have any killer poisons in them or anything.

squab is pigeon and is raised domestically

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