From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 22:48:57 MDT
One more point about the diets of hunter-gatherers: most wild game is far
leaner than domestically raised meat. The Texas historian J. Frank Dobie,
writes of an ailment known as "rabbit fever" (not to be confused with
tularemia, which goes by the same colloquial name), which frontier people
got when they were away from civilization, living mostly off wild game. It
was a wasting ailment, indicative of a lack of calories; symptoms also
included impaired judgment. One could avoid rabbit fever when on the trail
by carrying along enough corn meal and lard to supplement the wild game
diet.
Barbara
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