Joe Pylka wrote: > > >>|They also eat seal liver that would kill you and me. > >> > > <<snip>> > Recently I read something about the disastrous consequences of a > ballooning expedition to the North Pole which was badly outfitted and > planned.. It was the one that Amundsen died while trying to effect a rescue > of some of the personnel. The last group, with the balloon, had landed on a > huge ice floe somewhere up there. By the time rescuers reached them they > were all dead, not from the cold but from having eaten the livers of polar > bears they'd shot for food. Recollections are dim now, but I recall that > these livers are loaded with one of the vitamins, such as D or E which in > high concentrations are fatal, but the victims didn't know that...... > Anybody else remember this? Not that story, but I have heard that Vitamin A concentrates in polar bears' livers since they're unquestionably at the top of the food chain up there. Saute up a nice slice of polar bear liver with onions and bacon and poof! yer dead of Vitamin A overdose. Of course, if I had a whole bear to eat, I'd probably start somewhere other than the liver. Steve *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 06:22:29 PST
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