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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoDamn, that sounds good.
I too love cooking on wood/charcoal fire. I even do it all winter, in my garden. I am 100% a chicken genocider though :P
Don't know why I am so addicted to it.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
If you try a all meat diet it must be red meat or you'll get sick. Chicken doesn't have nearly enough fat. If you don't want to eat cow for religious reasons do goat, sheep, donkey, lamb ect...
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I eat beef and pork, maybe once a month. Its true, if you only eat white meat, your body doesn't get essential fats, and you will die likely in a week.
This rabbit-starvation was known since the days of the Romans:
In Appian's Roman History, Volume I, Book VI: The Wars in Spain, Chapter IX, page 223 the author notes a multitude of Roman soldiers dying of severe diarrhea after eating mostly rabbits while besieging the city Intercatia in approx 150 B.C. Appian wrote:
... strange terror in the Roman camp. Their soldiers were sick from watching and want of sleep, and because of the unaccustomed food which the country afforded. They had no wine, no salt, no vinegar, no oil, but lived on wheat and barley, and quantities of venison and rabbits' flesh boiled without salt, which caused dysentery, from which many died. [5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#Observations
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Well you can eat nothing for a week and be fine. Eventually though it will make you so weak you can't hunt.
The romans needed fish. You can go a long way with just deer and rabbit if you add fish. Fish are super fatty.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
That's the irony, isn't it ? The Romans who would have just starved a bit would have survived, but the ones who ate only rabbits got poisoned.
Yup, fish would have solved their problems, but they foolishly ate too many rabbits since they had access to them.
The poison limit seems to be defined by how much protein your liver kidneys can throw out of your body:
"According to Bilsborough and Mann (2006), the protein intake is mainly restricted by the urea cycle. They suggest a limit of 2.5 g/kg"
A 100 Kg man would have a limit around 250 g per day