Yeah, I have the same theory.
I think that rabbit starvation will probably happen a lot faster if you don't eat any carbs either.
Does anyone know the minimal amount of carbs or fats to eat to avoid rabbit starvation, and by what exact mechanism insufficient carbs and fats causes it? The hypotheses at Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation) don’t seem that convincing.
But I think this forum is a bit crazy on fat tbh, you only need a fair amount of fat. People here make it sounds like you need to be stuffing your face with fat all the time which I think is mostly due to ignorance.
Please try to refrain from making negative personal characterizations about other posters, especially when the comments are based on assumptions about them rather than their actual behavior here. I find that discussion is optimized when we report our own experiences and ask others to share theirs rather than try to apply our individual experience to everyone, and when we ask questions of each other rather than make assumptions. I'll treat your characterization as if it had been a question:
Question: "Do you eat lots of fat because you are unaware of the leanness of wild muscle meats?"
Answer: No, I was well aware of that. The main reason I eat lots of fat is because I do best when I do.
I hunt a lot of wild game, and believe me, fat isn't as abundant as you think. Most of these animals are very very lean.
The intramuscular tissue of wild and grass-finished animals is very lean, yes, but are you aware that the enormous megafauna that were preferentially hunted by Stone Agers had large fat depots that evidence indicates were valued more than the lean muscle meat, and that hunter gatherers of today still prefer fat to lean? Here are some sources:
Adults only. Reindeer hunting at the Middle Palaeolithic site Salzgitter Lebenstedt, Northern Germany
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1557221Both Homo sapiens neanderthalensis of the Middle Pleistocene and Homo sapiens sapiens of the Upper Paleolithic preferentially hunted reindeer when they were at their fattest (the fall) and preferentially selected their fattiest parts (such as the best marrow bones).
Cultural and Environmental Implications of Hippopotamus Bone Remains in Archaeological Contexts in the Levant
by LK Horwitz - 1990
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1357310"one hippopotamus can yield some 90 kg of fat"
Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson reported that Inuits and other Native Americans also preferentially hunted the fattiest animals and preferentially ate the backslab and perinephric fat of land mammals and the blubber from sea mammals like seal and walrus. (Stefansson, The Fat of the Land, 1956)
Another Arctic explorer and anthropologist, Hugh Brody, also reported that Inuits and Dene preferentially ate fat. (Hugh Brody, Living Arctic, 1987)
Other Arctic explorers have reported the importance of eating plentiful fat in very cold climates: "One effect of the cold was to give a most ravenous appetite for fat. Many a time have we eaten great lumps of lard grease - rancid tallow, used for making candles - without bread or anything to modify it." (Viscount Milton and Walter Butler Cheadle, The North-West Passage by Land: Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains, 1865)
Do you know what the avg percentage fat intake by calories of traditional Arctic peoples like the Inuit was? Are you familiar with the research of Wortman, Phinney and Westman on high-fat diets?
... that rabbit-starvation requires much lower levels of fat-consumption than people think ...
Did you mean to write "that
avoiding rabbit-starvation requires..."?
