I'm not kidding at all. There is indeed some benefit from bushmeat.
To begin with, let me tell you that bear and beaver meat contains a lot of iron. They do not have to be eaten, but in the list of iron content in food, bear and beaver meat, along with caribou deer, occupies the first lines. This is the data of the Americans. They have a peculiar attitude to such matters in North America.
Personally, I have not read any other official recommendations.
Now about fat. I have never met a justification for the healing effect of badger fat. But there are some interesting points.
The first is hibernation. And bears, and badgers, and beavers sleep in winter. Before hibernation, they need to store fat. Therefore, they will be oily in winter.
Does anyone remember the book of an American who went to live in a hut in the wild? There was also a saying like that in winter he lost weight, which means that "it's time to eat beavers."
I mean, at the beginning of hibernation, such an animal is very fatty and high in calories. I can't say that this is a direct medicine, but someone's life can really save someone.
Further more interesting. They will have beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the fat.
To accumulate fat, such an animal must eat many different fats.
You and I usually meet with animal fat obtained from all sorts of cows and similar herbivores.
Cows have stomachs that are designed to convert any fat into standard saturated animal fat like milk. There they have bacteria that are professionally engaged in this. That is, a cow is literally a living factory for the production of oil of a standard composition. According to GOST.
Now imagine - the hibernating animal (including the bear) eats any fat that gets in its way to store it for the winter. This fat will include unsaturated acids like omega-3s.
The stomachs of such an animal do not know how to convert unsaturated fatty acids into saturated ones. Therefore, fat is stored in the form in which it was eaten. It turns out that depending on the diet, the badger can accumulate a noticeable amount of omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids. Interesting, right?
The only problem is that this process is uncontrollable and unpredictable. So badgers won't be bred like sea fish. But the fact takes place.
I have never met a scientific justification for the benefits of badger fat, but I believe that this animal can accumulate a lot of unsaturated fatty acids for the winter.
Have you heard about this?
