I've always been a fan of gnawing on meat bones, sucking the marrow out of
them, and eating what others thought of as less-savory parts of the animal
(tails, tongues, organ meats, etc.).  I have never thought about it in terms
of fat, but rather trace elements.  Different organs are high in different
nutrients that don't necessarily appear in muscle fats.  The way I see it,
you need to eat all those other parts of the animal to round out your
nutrition.  Kind of similar to the way a mouse is 100% nutritionally complete
for a cat, but only if the cat eats the entire mouse, bones and all.

Lisa Sporleder
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Ester, Alaska


>If you were going to eat wild game in an effort to be more true to a
>paleolithic lifestyle, you would need to make sure not to just eat the
>muscle meat, but to also be eating the brains, tongue, layers of fat in the
>gut and around and in the organs, sucking the bone marrow, eating the
>eyeballs, etc. to get extra fat, just as much hunter/gatherers will do.
>(The muscle of wild game is very low in fat but most hunter/gatherers seem
>to go out of their way to extract as much fat as they can from their kills).