In response to the discussion of whether it is more or less paleo to eat
meat cooked or raw, I'd like to share from a book I am currently reading
entitled People of the Deer, by Farley Mowat.  He lived with the Inuit tribe
for four years which was inland, so could not rely on the seal meat from the
coast.  They lived primarily on the meat, marrow,  fat and stock of the
caribou. Because of the terrible weather conditions and unrelenting winds,
most fires were hard to maintain.  The little bit of willow that was used to
start fires was only available when the snow melt, which was a very short
season.  Even fires that were constructed in tepees in warmer weather often
blew out by gale force winds that ripped through the caribou skin shelters.
Only in igloos would fires thrive, and only if enough willow had been
previously  stored and carried by the women (as far as 100 miles at a time
when brush was scarce) from camp to camp.  They preferrd their meat cooked,
always.  But obtaining the right conditions for that preference was
problematic.  Oftentimes, they were starving, and when they came upon a
caribou, the first thing they did with their kill was to crack open the
marrow bones and suck out the marrow raw.  This gave them the energy
required to either carry the carcass to cold water and submerge it for
future use, or to butcher it and consume it on the spot- usually raw unless
they could start a fire.  But again, they always preferred it COOKED,
especially with lots of stock and fat.  They also ate lots of dried meat and
rendered squares of fat.  One bite fat for every three of  meat.  This was
their source of heat - internally.  The author notes that their chest girth
was very wide due to an enlarged liver from a primarily protein fat diet...
It also enabled them to adapt to long period of no food.

Cheers,

Judy Genova, cavegirl (who feels like a real wimp after reading about the
Inuit lifestyle)
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