On 11/10/2017 8:45 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2017 15:20:45 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>
>> On 2017-11-10, U.S Janet B > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It used to be you could get liver in the butcher section of
>>> the supermarket and pick out what you wanted or even better, the
>>> butcher would cut the thickness you wanted.
>>
>> As I understand it, the liver (in any animal) filters out all the bad
>> stuff. IOW, if yer eating liver, yer eating all the things the
>> animal's liver has filtered out of its own system. While I love beef
>> liver, I quit eating it about 10 yrs ago. 8|
>>
>> nb
>
> Bah, Humbug. The liver doesn't store impurities, it collects and then
> passes them out of the body. The human liver totally regenerates
> itself within maybe 6 weeks. (I don't have any statistics on other
> creatures livers) So what was there last month is no longer there.
> There are many nutritional advantages to eating liver.
> That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
> Janet US
>

No concerns that it is (a bit like mussels) a filter-feeder analog?

I worry about concentration of things like toxic metals, pesticides and
the like.

Maybe I'm just paranoid though...