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Why does meat now contain less fat?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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I'm pretty sure meat contains more fat now, compared to the prehystorical days... Farmers want to make their animals as fat as possible, so they have more meat to sell.

Animals used to live in the wild, so they ate well, moved around a lot. Pretty weird question, if you ask me.

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