SAMA HOOLE: This is recognition that dogs tolerate higher protein ratios than humans. Dogs can eat lean venison. Humans eating only lean venison develop protein poisoning.

Across cultures and time periods, the pattern repeats: fatty portions for humans, lean scraps for dogs.

This isn't cruelty. This is recognition that dogs tolerate higher protein ratios than humans. Dogs can eat lean venison. Humans eating only lean venison develop protein… pic.twitter.com/O6cZ8wpMr2

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) December 14, 2025

Across cultures and time periods, the pattern repeats: fatty portions for humans, lean scraps for dogs.

This isn't cruelty. This is recognition that dogs tolerate higher protein ratios than humans. Dogs can eat lean venison. Humans eating only lean venison develop protein poisoning. The decision about what to give the dogs reveals what cultures considered valuable. If they're feeding lean muscle meat to dogs, that tells you lean muscle meat is the least valuable part. Frontier journals record this constantly. "Shot a spring deer. Took the tongue and liver. The dogs got the rest." The tongue and liver had enough fat to justify taking them. The lean muscle wasn't worth the effort to process. Modern people reading these accounts are appalled. How wasteful! How cruel! Actually, how logical. The dogs could digest what the humans couldn't efficiently process. Inuit feeding lean seal meat to sled dogs while eating the blubber themselves weren't being selfish. They were allocating resources according to metabolic requirements. The dogs needed some fat but tolerated lean meat. The humans needed abundant fat or they'd sicken. This calculus reversed only with modern abundance and the belief that lean protein is premium nutrition. Now humans pay top dollar for what our ancestors fed to dogs. The dogs get commercial kibble made from grain. Everyone's eating wrong.