"No matter how many pigs or goats the Yami own, they rarely sell or trade them for other goods, instead keeping them for slaughter at festival time," says retired Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology research fellow Yu Guang-hong. To the Yami, "the economic value of livestock is far less than their sociocultural value."
「（雅美人）不論擁有多少豬、羊，也很少用來出售及交換其他財貨，僅在自家舉行慶典時宰殺食用。」已退休的中研院民族所研究員余光弘認為，對雅美人而言，「家畜的經濟價值遠低於其社會文化價值」。