michael94
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One thing I will add to that is it depends where the fat comes from. For example, leaf lard/suet is different than fat from other parts of the animal and is more expensive/desired because of this.anything without a rumen needs to be sourced carefully. So if you’re shopping for beef and chicken and, due to budgetary constraints, have to decide which you’ll pay a premium for, it’s much more important to have top-quality chicken, because the composition of the chicken’s tissues will directly reflect the composition of its diet. Whereas Cows and other ruminants are able to convert nutrients to other forms in their digestive tract. So if you feed a cow a high PUFA diet, its tissues will contain a lower proportion of PUFA than was present in the diet, but if you give a chicken, say, 40% PUFA, the fats stored in its tissues will basically be 40% PUFA.
Anyways, this is Ray’s argument for eating ruminants instead of chicken. He mentions it in a number of places I think.