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From: megatest!bbowen@decwrl.dec.com (Bruce Bowen)
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Subject: Re: Bear Liver (was Re: Request for info....)
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Date: 2 Apr 91 12:51:34 GMT
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In article <452@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers) writes:
>In article <421@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> mitchell@metaphor.metaphor.com (Greg Mitchell) 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.

  As I understand it, the liver of any carnivorous animal is suspect.
The liver of all animals tends to concentrate vitamin A.  Herbivorous
animals don't eat much vitamin A, but carnivorous animals tend to eat
the liver of whatever animals they eat, thereby enhancing their intake
of vitamin A and thereby enhancing the concentration of vitamin A in
there livers.  Most bears, other than polar bears, are largely
omniverous though. 

-Bruce