Well, I should expect that he
can eat, as, since Aslan is the Christ-figure, there is nothing he physically
can't do. As to whether he would wish to or not, that'd be pure speculation.
Aslan wrote:I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms.
I interpreted this as a metaphorical speech, but more in the fashion of Gollums's riddle in
The Hobbit, wherein he speaks of "This thing all things devours / Birds, beasts, trees, flowers / Gnaws iron, bites steel, / Grinds hard stones to meal, / Slays king, ruins town, / And beats high mountain down." Aslan created, guides, knows, is greater than, and will outlast any sort of human fixture, and thus "swallows them up."
DiGoRyKiRkE wrote:In my view, Aslan (and all other talking predators) obtained their food just as human would; by visiting a Narnian Butcher, or something like that.
Wouldn't that meant that only the Narnian Butchers would be hunting, though? And why would that be the case? It seems most impractical, perhaps impossible on a large scale--or, for that matter, even on a very small scale, such as in PC. In SC, Puddleglum and Eustace are quite fine with eating the stag until they discover it talked, so I'd imagine the talking animals would eat in a similar fashion. They are allowed to eat their normal diet, and the talking carnivores hunt the same as a dumb carnivore one would.