animal fats and EFA's (was: Re: Is pasteurized milk really bad?)

[Guest guest]

> They may have been more lean as you put it but they also went for

older animals

> that had more fat and consumed all the fat there was on the animal.

To expand on the above, 'wild meat is lean' concept mostly comes from

comparing muscle meats. However, there is also the kidney fat and the

slabs of back fat (Which could be quite prodigious on older animals).

Also many organ meats are very fatty - the brain being a good

example. While paleontologists(sp?) will probably debate forever what

the diet of paleolithic man was, we do know that there are hunter

gatherer societies today that eat a very high fat diet, so its not

unreasonable to assume that paleolithic man did also. Indeed, they

may have eaton an even higher fat diet, since the paleolithic era

ended when the big game animals went extinct. With all the brains,

bone marrow and back fat from animals like mammoth's, they could

really have been living in fat city!