Big-game meat includes waterfowl, marsh, borer, field, and mountain diving wild birds. In the forests, there are hares and wild ungulates - elk, boar, roe deer, deer, wild goat. Wild animals feed on natural feeds and instinctively choose the most necessary and useful of them. Many plants contain nutrients that accumulate in the meat of wild animals. Game meat is high-calorie, nutritious, and has dietary properties. Wild animals and birds lead an active lifestyle, so their meat is quite dense and not too fat.

Useful properties:

The meat of wild animals (really wild ones that feed on grass and are not farmed) helps reduce blood fat levels. The content of protective omega-3 fats in it is much higher, it is practically the diet of our ancestors - pure meat with a content of up to 35% protein.

In addition to being more natural and healthy in fat, grass-fed animal meat has other nutritional benefits. It has five times more vitamin E, and even when grain-fed animals receive additional vitamin E, in the meat of “herbivores” it still remains twice as much. Vitamin E is an important dietary antioxidant.

Pasture-fed animals produce meat that contains five times more linolenic acid (CLA), and it is much more stable than its synthetic derivatives. CLA can help a person lose excess weight or prevent it from gaining weight, and also has an anti-catabolic effect on muscles. In addition, it inhibits the growth of cancer cells in humans and animals.

Also, don't be fooled about organic beef — it will be free of hormones and pesticides, but animals are fed grain and beans to gain weight and fat faster, rather than grass. The transition to “herbivorous” meat is also a question of ecology, which is difficult to implement and which deserves a separate article.

Harmful properties:

The quality of the meat we consume today is different from what we were evolutionarily adapted to. When buying meat in the supermarket, our health can be affected by modern meat processing practices:

• Various harmful substances that remain in meat (antibiotics, whey, pesticides, herbicides, DDT, steroids, tranquilizers, tetracycline drugs, hormonal drugs, etc.) that enter the feed due to environmental pollution or are intentionally added to accelerate the growth of animals, calming them in case of stress, as well as for the prevention or treatment of their diseases;
• An intensive fattening diet of animals, which includes food that is not natural for their diet (for example, fish meal or leftover bones of other animals);
• Processing meat in slaughterhouses with special chemicals (nitrites, nitrates) to slow its decomposition;
• Long-term storage of meat after slaughter of the animal;
• Treatment of meat with chemicals and flavor enhancers in meat processing plants.

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