> > Is it possible to buy other sources of fat, such as bear fat, whale blubber,
> > etc.
>
> It's probably possible, but I imagine it would be quite difficult
> and expensive.  I don't know whether it is legal to hunt bears,
> but I suspect it is not.

Bear hunting is legal up here (during bear season only, of course ;-)
but bear fat is not good.  It is a very strong, almost rancid
tasting fat.  When you prepare bear meat, you want to get all the fat off
the meat before cooking.  Venison fat is another that wouldn't be
very good.  I remember when I lived in Wisconsin (home of the
corn-fed venison), butchers would cut out all the deer fat and mix in
beef fat instead when making venison burger.  The gamey taste is
mainly in the fat of most wild animals.

Whale hunting is legal only for Alaska Natives up here.  If you could
get blubber from an eskimo, I suppose it would be legal (probably
need a signed document to have it in your possession), but I'm sure the
shipping costs would take it right out of your price range if you
could even find a source in the first place.

> > Some say that the same food over and over causes allergies. Is
> this true?

Basically, everyone has an allergy threshhold limit to everything.
Some people have low threshholds to certain items, and they become
allergic to it after a low number of exposures.  (You *have* to be
exposed to something once before you can *be* allergic to it.)  If
you have a semi-low threshhold to something, it is *possible* that
eating only that item day after day might hasten the allergic
response, but I'd say not very likely.

Mary, if your son developed his meat allergies during the time his
gut was toxic and full of antibiotics, and it is healing now, and he
hasn't developed more meat allergies since he *has* been healing
well, I'd say you are probably in good shape.  On the other hand, if
you keep searching for trouble, you are sure to find it.

Lisa Sporleder
Ester, Alaska