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Depends on what you mean by best. Best tasting, best nutritional value, best caloric value, biggest single muscle group, best to cook for a long time, etc.

The biggest single muscle group and best tasting!!!

Well, taste is subjective, it varies from person to person, so I can't speak directly to that. The largest muscle group on most animals is the posterior and hind legs, including the ham in pigs or a selection of "round" cuts from beef cattle. These are good cuts of meat, but not "choice".

Closer to the bone the sweeter is the meat.

This book, The River Cottage Meat Book, just won the James Beard award for Cookbook of the year. (the James Beard Awards are kind of like the Oscars for the food world).

While I have yet to read this I plan on purchasing it based on the reviews.

"The book itself is perhaps the only meat-based recipe book that we have seen to open with a full page photographic study of how a cow is slaughtered (one of Hugh's own herd), and a good 50 pages of discussion on the rights and wrongs of eating meat, as well as ways to choose good meat, should you decide to do so."

When I find out the answer to your question...I'll post!

It sounds as though you're trying to devise a way of getting to the best parts of a beast, regardless of what the beast is. Uh, you wouldn't be contemplating cannibil... Nah!!!

Well, that would solve one problem....but maybe the idea is to engineer an animal that is just this cut of meat.....like a chicken with six legs for the bargain buckets, that would be worse..

jim

or a beast with 2 backs

The French are actually working on the "Big-Block-O-Meat" cloning project.

Just trying to find which muscle or group forms the best possible source of meat from any animal?

No realistic answer. Please define your terms.

With out a doubt the best part of any game I have eaten is the Back-strap. Runs along each side of the back bone. Wild game is best, the fat content is much less than beef raised to sell by the pound. Marbled is good eating, but much higher in fat.

On beef, it would be the same. I am not a butcher just a hunter. This is always the first cut cooked, usually never makes it to the freezer.

It is all good, some of the cuts, if pressure cooked, will be super great, when you may think they are to tough.

Not a pro, hope this helps....

The best cut of meat is always the fillet which is different from the back strap or the "prime rib" cut. The fillet comes from the inside of the rib cage down closer to the loins, and is referred to as the loins. In a smaller animal like a deer it is two small circular pieces of meat that is often overlooked. The loins can be easily removed once an animal has been gutted, and can be lifted out without even using a knife. (yum yum) Many deer processing operations take advantage of the fact that the average person is unaware of this delicacy and save this piece of meat from each animal that is brought in with them still in place.

Hope this is helpful.

Nutrition and flavor mostly come from the lean/fat balance, not the muscle group. Tenderness depends on how much the muscle works. Legs, for example, do a lot of work and are relatively tough. The tenderloin, close to the ribs and high up on the back, is usually the least worked and, as stated above, the most tender cut in mammels. In flying birds, the legs may be the least used. In flightless birds, it is likely to the the wings.

For goodness sakes! Just run up and bite the damn thing! Keep biting until you find the part that you like or the critter starts biting back!!!

don't know what country you are in but if you can get your hands on a copy of Omega 3 -The Seal Connection-Dr. Cosmas HO- Flanker Press -St. Johns, NFLD, Canada 2004 you just miht find that seal meat is second from the top of the line in terms of the quality of human nutrient value provisioning.

If you are in the U.S. or one of its offshores staes or territories forget about gettting your hands on it. like the omega 3-6-9- oil contained within seal meat and blubber the f.d.a. and e.p.a. were doing a k.a. operation for big pharma when they had it set on a list of books banned from importation into the u.s..

oh' anyone wanting to raise the its another conspiracy flag in anyform it might be a good idea to at least READ something about the benefits for humans and animals deriveable from the seal and not waste the time of other readers to these articles who want to learn something.

'da ber