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Pemmican was the first energy bar ever made, and nothing on the petrol station counter has come close to it since. What went into pemmican: - Dried meat, pounded to powder - Rendered fat, poured in hot - Held together by the fat, nothing else - About 3,000 calories a pound - Keeps for years without a fridge - Wrapped in the animal's own hide What goes into the one by the till: - Oats, puffed rice, soy protein isolate - Sunflower or rapeseed oil - Glued together with syrup, under 3 different names - About 1,800 calories a pound - Best before next spring - Wrapped in plastic that will outlive you It took 5 pounds of fresh meat to make 1 pound of the dried, and a whole bison to fill one bag. The drying took out the water, which is most of what an animal weighs, and the fat put back the part that does the work. In the Boer War the British Army issued it as the iron ration: 4 ounces of pemmican and 4 of chocolate in a tin, and a soldier could march for 36 hours on it before he started to drop. Peary took 30,000 pounds of it to the Pole and called it the most concentrated and satisfying of all meat foods. The word is Cree. Pimîhkân, from pimî, which means fat. The people who invented the energy bar named it after the energy.

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist fed cows no protein at all for years, and they gave milk, and the milk was full of protein. Artturi Virtanen won his Nobel for chemistry in 1945. In the 1960s he took dairy cows off every protein in their diet and fed them urea and ammonium salts, which are nitrogen and nothing else, with cellulose and starch for energy. The cows made milk. Full milk, with every essential amino acid in it, for years, through several lactations. The microbes in the rumen took the nitrogen and built the protein from scratch, and the cow digested the microbes. They built every B vitamin as well, including B12, which no plant and no animal can make and which comes, in the end, from a microbe or nowhere. A cow is the only farm animal that manufactures protein. A pig and a chicken can only move protein from one place to another, and the place is usually a soy field. Feed a pig a kilo of soy protein and you get less than a kilo of pork. Feed a cow grass with no protein worth the name and you get a kilo of beef and milk anyway. Grazing cattle produce more protein a human can eat than they consume. A cow is a protein factory with a grass intake and a chemist-proof design, and she can run it on nitrogen and sunlight. Every plant-based plan to replace her begins with growing the protein first.

Every real omnivore on earth can live on a hedge, a bin or a carcass as the week requires, and you cannot live on the hedge. A pig can live on acorns, roots, grass and a dead pig, and it does, and its gut is built for all four. A bear can live on berries for a month, then salmon for a month, then nothing for six, and its molars are flat for the fruit and its claws are sharp for the fish. A rat can live on anything that has ever been food, and some things that have not. A raccoon can live on crayfish, corn, eggs and your rubbish, and it has the stomach acid to handle the rubbish. A chicken can live on seed and insects and will take a mouse if one is slow enough. A chimpanzee can live on fruit and leaves with the odd monkey, and more than half its gut is a fermenting colon to make the leaves worth eating. You cannot live on the leaves. Your colon is a fifth the size of the chimp's and most of your gut is a long absorbing tube built for food already digested, which is meat and fat. You cannot live on the grass, the acorns or the roots. Your gut cannot touch cellulose and your body is poisoned by half the roots. You cannot live on the fruit. There is a month in the year a fruit tree feeds you and eleven when it does not. You cannot live without B12, which no plant has, or without a fat the brain needs, which no plant has, and your stomach runs at the acidity of a vulture's. An omnivore has a backup for every season. You have one food that works in all twelve months and it has hooves. The pig is an omnivore. You are a carnivore that can tolerate a side salad.

The entire cholesterol theory began in 1913 by feeding a carnivore's dinner to a vegetarian, and it has never worked on anything else. Feed cholesterol to a rabbit and its arteries fill with plaque inside weeks. Feed cholesterol to a dog and nothing happens. The dog eats it for life. Feed cholesterol to a rat and nothing happens. Feed cholesterol to a cat and nothing happens. A cat eats nothing else. Feed cholesterol to a lion, a wolf, a fox, an eagle, a seal, and nothing has ever happened, in the whole history of veterinary medicine. Feed cholesterol to a human and the liver makes less of its own, and the blood number barely moves. The rabbit is a herbivore. It has no system for handling a molecule it was never built to eat, so the stuff piles up where it lands. Every carnivore has the system, because every carnivore has eaten cholesterol at every meal since there were carnivores. A Russian pathologist proved the rabbit result in 1913. He tried it on dogs and rats and it failed, so the dogs and rats were left out of the story. A hundred years of heart advice rests on the one animal that reacts the way the theory needs, and that animal eats grass. They built a diet for a rabbit and prescribed it to an animal with canine teeth.