>  I was watching a documentary on how the Inuit lived, worked >and survived
and when the men  brought back a caribou they >had killed the women were
absolutely *thrilled*  that it had a >LOT of fat on it.  That kind of stuck
with me when I saw it.
> They didn't throw anything away.

nothing is thrown away from the animal in any indigenous culture unless it
is toxic - eg polar bear liver. As i took some pains to demonstrate in a
recent e-mail debate with Amadeus the hunting cycle was regulated around
when the animal was at its fattest..and this is true from australian
aborigines to Inuits. since a kilo of fat has 9,000 calories you can see
that a fat caribou or seal will keep people going for days.

andrew