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From: ccmay@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chris May)
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Subject: Re: Bear Liver (was Re: Request for info....)
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meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers) writes:

>>think any are but some people like it, although I understand that bear
>>liver can be poisonous ). Butchering information would show sketetal

>That's Polar Bear liver, which concentrates vitamin A.  (A piece of
>Polar Bear liver the size of a vitamin A pill _is_ a vitamin A pill. :-)
>Ditto other carnivorous marine mammals?  But not other bears, I think.

I believe it is dangerous to eat the liver of *any* carnivorous mammal. 
Coyotes, wolves, and other members of the dog family all have extremely
high Vit A levels in their livers.  I don't know about bears either, 
but I sure wouldn't tempt fate.

--ccm
Chris May
Dartmouth Med '93