Loren Cordain presented very interesting data on  the composition of wild
ungulates. The one thing I wonder about, not from any formal data
collection, but from the practical experience of hunting and butchering
game, is with his statement immediately below.


Further, the
>total amount of organ meats, relative to muscle meat in a single animal
>is quite small

I would guess that if one took the cleaned liver, spleen, pluck, stomach,
bowel, pancreas, kidneys, testicles, and marrow fat, and brains, and piled
it on one side of a scale, and put the boned musle on the other side, in an
average size deer, it is going to challenge the statement that the organs
are relatively "quite small". Of course the amount of depot fat remaining on
the muscle would affect this, but as Loren has pointed out, usually it
amounts to very little.

This probably would not change the overall hypothesis that saturated fat
could not have been a major early dietary factor, due to the fatty acid
composition of the organ meats. But it may suggest that one way that our
modern diets differ from those of early men, is that we don't eat near
enough guts.

Michael Kern