The good fat! a Yak Burger

This is my dinner. It looks like a fast food classic, but its not. It has all the ingredients of a hungry and happy people meal, like myself today. Its a Yak Burger.

Yaks are tibetan cows, they have a bulky frame and sturdy legs, and they can jump as goats,  rounded cloven hooves a species of long haired bovine living in South central Asia and the himalayas, similar to a hairy bison. Yak meat is my dinner tonight. 

Yaks have very lean meat because, like bison, their fat is a separate layer outside the muscles that is easy to separate (unlike cows that have fat marbled with muscle).

Yaks are exclusively grass-fed (and are very efficient food processors—a yak eats only about 1/3 of what a cow eats) and very disease resistant, they do not need antibiotics, and they are not treated with growth hormones. The little fat that yak meat does contain, like any grass-fed meat, has very high percentages of omega-3 fatty acids and Conjugated Linoleic Acids (good fats).

In Tibet, yaks are a central part of the culture.Today they are a central part of mine. A tibetan cow is the solution to Michale Polan's omnivores dilemma .